Comic strips

[rowyn]

I was discussing web comics with a friend, and he mentioned that he had a subconcious bias for strips that were in color. It wasn't that he consciously looked at black and white strips and said "ew!" -- but he found that most of the strips he wound up reading were in color.

I haven't noticed this bias in myself. In fact, one of the comics I read daily -- GPF -- went to color and I didn't even notice. (Happened sometime in 2002 or 2003, I guess). Out of the 21 strips I regularly follow, nine are in color. But most of those were in b&w when I started reading them, so color didn't have an impact on my decision.

Perhaps more interestingly: I only read a handful of strips where I know the creator's sole income is from the strip. Those would be: Megatokyo, PVP, Sluggy Freelance, and User Friendly. None of those run daily color strips (though the last three do Sunday color).

But this has been on my mind, so I thought I'd do a little poll on it and a couple of questions. For variety, I'll fill out my own poll this time. :)


[Poll #245608]

Comments

Re: Art and Writing

[jordangreywolf.livejournal.com]

By the way, this only shows my incredible ignorance, but I take it from the context of your comment, and other references on Rowyn's LJ that you must do a webcomic of some sort. If so ... what is it? I'm curious now.

Re: Art and Writing

[kelloggs2066.livejournal.com]

Hardly ignorance.
There are millions of strips out there.
Nobody knows 'em all.

Mine is:
21st Century Fox
http://techfox.keenspace.com/

or the high res version of the site at:
http://www.hirezfox.com/21cf/index.html