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Okay, it's not like people have been asking me, but I figured I should put out a short note on the subject in case anyone was wondering. After all, I can write both serious and silly, I'm a pretty good artist, and I could probably afford to host it elsewhere if it somehow got popular enough to encourage me to remove it from machines owned by friends. So why not?
Three core reasons.
1. I already have a job, and don't really want to turn things I do for fun into a job. Keeping to any kind of regular update schedule would probably take the bloom off the rose for me.
2. My writing ebbs and flows erratically, also making it hard to keep to an update schedule. Sometimes I'll have a really good week and crank out huge amounts of fiction, sometimes I'll go a month or so with nothing.
3. This is the big one. I really don't like drawing the same stuff over and over. Even when I draw the same characters, I try to come up with new designs for them. And while consistency may be the hobgoblin of small minds, it's also a requirement for comicstrip art. Characters must be obviously the same from panel to panel, unless I'm going with some kind of weird experimental approach. And the more interesting a character's design is, the more of a chore it becomes to repeat it over and over and over.
Sure, I could get around #3 by doing cut and paste comics or something, or by using designs so simplistic that I don't tire of them (and I've given that last idea a shot a couple times in college and grad school, for student papers, but never got to the actual submission stage). #2 could be solved simply by doing a weekly and being sure to stockpile, and that would probably help #1 as well.
But, even though I sometimes get a "that would be neat" idea, I have yet to overcome the Big Three.
Three core reasons.
1. I already have a job, and don't really want to turn things I do for fun into a job. Keeping to any kind of regular update schedule would probably take the bloom off the rose for me.
2. My writing ebbs and flows erratically, also making it hard to keep to an update schedule. Sometimes I'll have a really good week and crank out huge amounts of fiction, sometimes I'll go a month or so with nothing.
3. This is the big one. I really don't like drawing the same stuff over and over. Even when I draw the same characters, I try to come up with new designs for them. And while consistency may be the hobgoblin of small minds, it's also a requirement for comicstrip art. Characters must be obviously the same from panel to panel, unless I'm going with some kind of weird experimental approach. And the more interesting a character's design is, the more of a chore it becomes to repeat it over and over and over.
Sure, I could get around #3 by doing cut and paste comics or something, or by using designs so simplistic that I don't tire of them (and I've given that last idea a shot a couple times in college and grad school, for student papers, but never got to the actual submission stage). #2 could be solved simply by doing a weekly and being sure to stockpile, and that would probably help #1 as well.
But, even though I sometimes get a "that would be neat" idea, I have yet to overcome the Big Three.