I was delighted to be one of the many webcomics that contributed a guest strip to help celebrate the 300th strip for the delightful My Cardboard Life (don’t let the cute artwork fool you, it’s a webcomic with teeth).
There are going to plenty more guest strips all week, so it’ll be worth going back for more.
For no reason other than I felt like it really, I’ve decided that Friday May 14th 2010 is going to be the inaugural “Dialogue Free Comics Day”. Too often, when writing my webcomic, I forget that this is primarily a visual artform and so to emphasise that, I’ve set myself the challenge of posting a dialogue free comic on that day and I’d like you to join me.
I’ve set up a site – http://dialoguefreecomicsday.wordpress.com/ – and will post all the comics that join in there.
If you don’t post on a Friday, then just make it whatever day is nearest, as long as it’s before Friday 14th, I will link to the webcomics that have joined in, tweet about their involvement and, on the day, advertise it on the blog beneath my comic. If you do the same, it’ll be a fun way for us to promote each other’s webcomics.
If you want to join in just email me at noel@djbogtrotter.co.uk. Please list your webcomic and the day that you’ll be posting your dialogue-free comic.
I know I’m not exactly prolific. It’s going to be a while before I match y2cl‘s mighty target of 1000 comics (congrats John btw), but I’ve realised that I’m spending too much time trying to maintain my schedule of one cartoon a week here and two a week for my new webcomic Milton’s Life. As a result, I’ve been rushing the drawing and writing on some cartoons (exhibits A, B and C) and I’ve posted jokes that are just funny enough, rather than ones that tickled me so much that I just had to share them with you. Also, getting the comics done has sometimes become a chore rather than a pleasure. I already have enough stress and obligations at work and home without voluntarily adding to them with a hobby that should just be fun. So, I’m going to take a little break from DJ Bogtrotter. The comic will be back on Friday May 14th (just in time for Dialogue Free Webcomics Day) and after that I will only post when I’ve finished a cartoon that I’m happy with. I’ll aim for once a fortnight, but won’t beat myself up if I fail to maintain that schedule. In the meantime, I plan to blog a little bit more with quick cartoons and sketches. Thanks to everyone who’s subscribed. I’m really chuffed with all the kinds words and comments I’ve had since starting DJ Bogtrotter. Hope the new slow schedule isn’t too annoying. I’d rather attempt to maintain a reasonably competent standard than add to the almost infinite unfunny internet webcomic mountain.
I finally got around to picking a winner for the New Emporer Competition. Well actually, I got my wife to pick a winner, since I knew some of the entrants and I didn’t want to be biased. And this is the one that tickled her most:
It’s by Brock Chisholm and he gets a print of my The Undead comic, which, by happy coincidence, is one of the prints that’s available from my new shop. If the print you want isn’t listed, just contact me directly and I can print one to order. Thanks again to everyone who took the time to enter.
Tommie Kelley of Road Crew is doing a webcomic promotion week and he’s been kind enough to promote my new webcomic Milton’s Life. Tommie’s own webcomic Road Crew used to be a strip format that was mainly humour based, but he made the brave decision to switch to a graphic novel style. I believe it has been quite tough for him (long format serious stories are a much tougher sell than quick gags), but his perseverance seems to be paying off. His slow burning story of Jim, the young angry roadie, certainly has me hooked and if you’re looking for something different from the thousands of gag-a-day strips out there, you should have a dig through his archives. And, of course, you should check out all the other fine webcomics he’s promoting.
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