I was talking with Josh on the phone the other day about how excited I was about comics recently and I was expressing with him some frustrations I feel sometimes as I work on my comics. As much as I love the graphic novel format (which is what I am using for FDTN) I almost wish I could do the more traditional setup of the single issue type comic that we're so familiar with here in the states. It's kind of aggravating to me the creator to know that you the reader have to wait months to get everything I have planned out. AND that you will read thing at the pace of one page a week. I feel like everything you could gain from that experience has kinda been lost.
I know that the argument from some creators is that you, the reader, can always go back and reread the scene, or chapter from the beginning. I'm not too fond of that idea. Maybe I'm just not with the movement, but I want you guys to read the scene in one fell swoop so you get the weight of it in proper pacing. I would love to go with a traditional format like that but as I write/draw/shade/letter etc everything for this book, my output isn't up to the level I wish it was.
Which brings me to my next thought: I'm envious of writers. I was listening to some interviews with the creator of Y the Last Man, Brian K Vaughn and he was rattling off the list of books he's working on. It kinda made me sad because I have all of these ideas in my head that I just wish I could pour out into reality, but because the comics creation takes so long to complete because I do everything, I'm lucky I get one page a week out.
A lot of this is making me think about what I can do to up my output and finish some stories so I can move on to other projects. I love From Death Til Now, but I want to finish it in a timely manner so I can devote myself to the other projects on my mind.
Do any of you have thoughts on this sort of thing? What are your thoughts on From Death Til Now and reading it at the pace that you do?
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If you'd be willing to sacrifice weekly traffic for readers reading the chapters in one fell swoop, you could hold on to those pages until you had a finished chapter to upload. That's how the Cheshire Crossing guy does it. About every 6 months there's a new delicious issue to read. (Issue 4 was posted on the 4th of January.)
Or I could just wait 6 months without reading FDTN. Want me to? Because I could do it. I could! ;-)
Well, I definately think that releasing chunks at a time is a better method and I want to think about better ways to do it.
Hey if you feel like waiting 6 months to read the book and it works best for you then by all means do. but still drop by and check out the podcasts and blog stuff! :-)
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