Crisis of Color

Spikedmath.com

2010-04-12T18:30:00.003-04:00

There was a (major) surge of people who came to these comics in the past few days. Thanks to the people at spikedmath.com for posting a link to one of these comics! I left these here for posterity sake, but I'm never one to complain about new readers.

I stopped doing these comics a long time ago, but between when I stopped these and now, I did another series of comics, which can be seen here: www.weakpunchline.com. Don't mind the new title "scanned lines", I'm prepping for starting yet another series of comics for release sometime in the future under the title "Scanned Lines". All the comics of the other series are up in the archives.

Thanks to all the new people who came to the site!

Finalities

2007-11-11T13:03:00.001-05:00

I publicly released my first comic on the 8th of December, 2006. On that day, I released 7 comics, untitled, but of one paradigm. These were my first comics, and the intention was for them to be poorly drawn, but with emphasis on the dialog. I continued drawing these comics the 11th of January, after releasing 28 of them. I stopped, because I realized they were terrible. The jokes were, at best, juvenile, and the pictures were still the same. I decided, I was going to draw better ones.
On the 23rd of January, I released my first comic of a new paradigm, titled Lisp. It was badly drawn, but it didn't involve the characters from my first one. Along with Lisp, I released Vector Math Is Funny? which was a huge departure from my original ideas. I drew a few with new ideas in mind, some funny, some quite dry, and probably a few that were just unfunny. It was ok, because I was experimenting with a new idea. These are the comics I am most proud of.
In August of 2007, I decided to do a regularly syndicated comic, with new ones added every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. This is where the story gets bad. I start writing comics like crazy and I, for the most part, release them regularly. They get complicated, and I start to enjoy drawing them. But...After awhile, they start to look like my old ones. The characters become badly drawn and the jokes got more and more juvenile. Trite is the word that I would use to describe them now. Inspiration becomes harder and harder to come by and I start to question whether it's worth continuing to draw them.
I've decided that it is not. I've always wanted to be syndicated by some external source, or even to have a legitimate website for myself to show off these creations, but as time progressed, I began to think that they weren't good enough. This last two weeks or so of comics have proven to me that they're not. Since September, my overall readership has dropped near 25% and now, I'm lucky to have four hits per new comic. Sure, on deviantart I have a small (very small) following, but it's quite irrelevant to me. I've returned to the comics that I stopped drawing. Stick figures, explosions, and overall non-sequiterness has began to dominate my comics. My drafts are more and more of the same. I've drawn over 15 comics in the last week, not one I deem funny. The ones I'm choosing for my releases are ones I find the least unfunny.
If I one day learn to actually draw and to actually write jokes, I might start up again. At the same time, I just watched my comics go from shit, to semi-excellent, to shit again – a pattern that I'm not particularly proud of. I will continue to write comics and jokes, but they'll remain in my notebook until I convince myself that they should go elsewhere. To the six of you who will see this comic, I apologize, but really, there are better webcomics out there. Just go there, they're funnier, and more well draw, and clever, no point in me pushing my crap.
I'm now also retroactively releasing all my comics on this blog (but not the 28 I drew from December to January) under the Creative Commons license (by-nc-sa). Maybe someone else will have a better idea on what to do with them.

So, without further adieu, here's my final comic:

This is your brain

2007-11-10T03:54:00.000-05:00

Sometimes, you have regrets

2007-11-08T00:19:00.000-05:00

Easy Mistake

2007-11-06T13:43:00.001-05:00

Sorry, hosting was being dumb, but here's today's comic:

Apologies

2007-11-04T16:40:00.000-05:00

To the 4 people who check here regularly: Due to extenuating circumstances, there was not a comic posted yesterday. My apologies, but please check back on Tuesday the 6th for a new comic. (Hrm...Perhaps there will another series...not Tuesday though...maybe next week...stay tuned)

Iraq

2007-11-01T22:03:00.000-04:00

Stop

2007-10-30T00:01:00.001-04:00

Play Doh!

2007-10-27T00:37:00.000-04:00

Where's Lassie?

2007-10-24T23:59:00.001-04:00

Last Slice

2007-10-23T00:01:00.001-04:00

Last day

2007-10-20T11:53:00.001-04:00

Laplace

2007-10-19T00:40:00.000-04:00

Tough Problem

2007-10-17T23:59:00.000-04:00

Math Exam 1

2007-10-16T23:23:00.000-04:00

Math Class #1

2007-10-16T00:06:00.000-04:00

Sorry for the no comic on Saturday. This is the first comic in a 5-day Series titled "Math Class". Check Back tomorrow for the next installment!

Holy Shit indeed

2007-10-11T02:01:00.001-04:00

Mind Reader

2007-10-09T15:10:00.001-04:00

Pinata

2007-10-06T01:35:00.001-04:00

Haircut?

2007-10-03T22:43:00.001-04:00

Invisible Gorilla

2007-10-02T00:25:00.000-04:00

From the Future.

2007-09-30T16:21:00.000-04:00

To the (literal) 2 people who came here yesterday, I apologize for not posting. To make it up, I'm announcing a contest-esque thing. If over the next week, if 20 absolute unique visitors (new people) look at my comics (this blog), then I will release a 5-strip, series over an entire week (Monday-Friday). That's 5 comics in 5 days, all in a related series too! That's the challenge. Anyways, here's the comic that was suppose to be put up yesterday

Damn roids

2007-09-27T01:28:00.000-04:00

Brake Up

2007-09-25T00:32:00.001-04:00

Dig dig dig

2007-09-21T22:36:00.001-04:00

Border Wall

2007-09-19T21:23:00.001-04:00

Gotta scroll for this one

Tag!

2007-09-18T00:29:00.000-04:00

Ben Franklin of 21st Century

2007-09-16T17:37:00.000-04:00

I'm really sorry that I didn't update yesterday, I wasn't home all day. Here's a comic tho

In the Forest...

2007-09-13T02:08:00.000-04:00

What would jesus do?

2007-09-11T00:08:00.000-04:00

Please recycle

2007-09-08T13:00:00.000-04:00

Catch

2007-09-06T09:58:00.000-04:00

Hypotheticals

2007-09-04T09:52:00.000-04:00

It's a large one, so Click Here Instead

He's not suppose to be there...

2007-09-01T12:14:00.001-04:00

Comic Anchronism

2007-08-30T10:13:00.001-04:00

Shuttle Jumper

2007-08-28T09:38:00.000-04:00

Click here, cos it's kinda big

Head in a Box

2007-08-25T21:31:00.001-04:00

Magic Carpet Ride

2007-08-23T10:08:00.000-04:00

This one is a bit large, I got lazy.

It's linked to here

The lighter side of immortality

2007-08-21T12:00:00.000-04:00

First College Comic.

Smoking is bad

2007-08-18T17:46:00.000-04:00

This one is horizontal, so I'll link it instead.

Click Here

Anything you can do, I can do better

2007-08-16T14:43:00.000-04:00

LINK: Here

Infidelity

2007-08-14T20:23:00.001-04:00

Fishing

2007-08-11T14:33:00.000-04:00

Click here, cos it's big

Don't mess with the admin

2007-08-09T22:41:00.000-04:00

This one is kinda big:
So you have to click here. Sorry.

Don't forget your umbrella

2007-08-07T15:59:00.001-04:00

It's Tuesday

Ok, so this is going to be just for my comics.

2007-08-06T21:28:00.000-04:00

Links to my last set of comics. I'm going to try something here: I'm going to add a new comic every Tuesday, Thursday, and weekend (Saturday or Sunday). Lets see how long I can pump these out.

Added Aug 6th:
Yummy
Grow up

Added Aug 5th:
Curious?

Added Aug 3rd:
Prepare for the worst
Bets please
Unfortunate

Added Aug 2nd
Fishes need Oxygen?
Follow the Rules