Sonja Turbot: Existential Investigator, Page 38
Tomorrow Eunsuk’s students are coming over and I’m trying something totally insane- making home-made ice cream without the proper equipment. I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m a pathological maker. I want to make stuff. I just can’t help myself…
After this story is done, I think I’m going to try to stick to shorter pieces for a while. I think one of the great weaknesses of webcomics as a medium is that it costs you nothing but time to add an extra page or two to a story, and this extra page or two can quickly become an extra dozen or two, an extra hundred or two, and before you know it three years have passed and your characters still haven’t finished breakfast.
When Ataraxia Theatre was a print comic the stories had to be short. Back then, 16 pages was epic, man. This was a good thing. It helped me to control my normally out-of-control verbitage. I’d like to go back to that point. I’m going to try setting arbitrary page limits. I’m also going to change Ataraxia Theatre’s tagline to “Comics Which End”. I think there’s a market for that kind of thing.
May 22nd, 2009 at 8:44 am
At least you haven’t hit the MegaTokyo 1 year to 1 hour, realtime to storytime ratio
May 22nd, 2009 at 9:35 am
Freefall’s got a similar problem in that regard.
“As of 2008, the comic has covered seventeen days of story.” The comic started in 1998.