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I love
drawing cartoons. If I never drew this webcomic, I'd be drawing on every
scrap of paper that was set in front of me. But,
drawing alone doesn't make a complete webcomic. I wish it did. With each
separate incarnation of this webcomic (this being the fourth), I've struggled
to develop, not only the characters that inhabit it, but a strip with a
definable humorous voice. After
creating over 500 comic strips, neither of those have happened. That
problem was illuminated yesterday when I created a strip that failed on
several levels, number one of which was the fact that it was incomprehensibly
unfunny because it used meanspiritedness as a method to deliver a joke and
not humor. What I
learned from yesterday's strip was that I need to correct some bad habits
that have gone on for quite some time. But they're
not simple habits that can be corrected with a couple of new strips. They're
habits that completely define how to create a mediocre strip. That being
said, starting immediately, I am taking the strip off it's five-day-a-week
update schedule and puting it on a temporary hiatus. I am not
planning an official return at this time, because I want the changes to be
dictated by real change and not ones that are created for the sake of a time
table. With the
thousands of webcomics currently jockying for viewer attention on the web,
simply slapping something together isn't enough to maintain viewers. And without
viewers, I might as well just draw on those scraps of paper. I hope to
see you soon.
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