Tuesday, January 9, 2007

I finished reading the Barron's Webcomic book, and am surprised by how "print-minded" a lot of these webcomic artists seem to be. Most of them do a lot of work on paper, then scan it in at a high resolution (for printing in the future), then finish it up and shrink it down for the web. A lot of them seem to do webcomics because it's their only outlet "for now." For some reason, it bothers me...probably because I'm excited about webcomics as webcomics, and these people seem to see it as a medium of convenience. John Allison seems to favor computers all the way (even though he does publish books of his comics, which I think is just fine, since they are done after the fact, and I'll admit it's nice to have a physical volume)--that makes me happy since he's one of my favorites.