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I’ll like to address an issue that’s recently come up in the comic’s comment. Mostly it’s about people’s perceptions and expectations of myself and my comics.
First of all my spelling and grammar (as many of you have figured out by now) basically sucks. I’m not dyslexic nor do I have any other mental or physiological conditions that I am aware of. I’m just not very good at writing. I do write reports and documents in my professional life. To do this, I usually write something quite a bit ahead of time, then after a few days to a week, RE-READ it to accurately find and correct the spelling and grammar mistakes. So why don’t I do this for the comics? Because I have found I tend to get lazy would never be able to post regularly when I have a backlog of corrections to make. I HAVE gone over already posted comics in the past and corrected them and I probably will keep correcting past comics.
When I started SailorSun.org, I wanted to try a different type of story telling. Instead of seeing everything happen to characters, I wanted to start by meeting characters who already has a history. Sometimes this turned out to be a good thing, some times NOT. I believe this is why a lot of people have problems following the storyline and again, I am probably am not the best story teller.
As for my art skills… some people have commented about my lack of ability to draw on and off model and my inconsistent style over the past several years… Considering I have NO formal art training, no experience and very few artistic outlets beyond making the comics… Yes, my skills are not on the same level as a professional artist. I make online comics as a hobby. It doesn’t pay the bills, it doesn’t add to my professional resume and it won’t get me a higher paying job then what I do for a living now. I love my current job, and though I would like to improve my art skills, by doing courses or something, it is merely a hobby.
That being said, I do READ all the comments, even those filtered and never appear on the site. Long ago I started a policy that comments that bad mouth, rude, or disrespected myself or any other commenter would not be posted or removed (if it passed the filtering system).
If you like my site & comic, or hate it… keep in mind, it is just a hobby and not who I am or what I do for a living… I started making SailorSun.org to gain practice and improve my art skills, comic making skills and yes, even my writing. I find it an excellent way to try new things, new ways of doing things, writing challenges and new techniques. If you don’t like what I draw or write, that’s fine. I don’t expect everyone to like it. But consider why I started SailorSun.org… To try and to learn… I don’t need to be mocked or insulted for trying something different, nor do I need to be insulted for trying at all…
I’m not looking for sympathy nor a pat on my back… I just want to make everyone aware, why I make comics, where I stand and that comments are read by at least one person. So think about what your writing and consider what it might mean to those reading it.
Hey, we’re following the comic because we enjoy it! Weird story? Check! Art that doesn’t look like every other comic out there? Cool!
If you want to improve your art and writing skills, why not do that privately, where you can choose who you want to critique? Why subject the world to what you’ve admitted is abysmal quality and yourself to the criticism that comes with it? If you want to learn, there are less humiliating and frustrating ways to do so.
“So why don’t I do this for the comics? Because I have found I tend to get lazy would never be able to post regularly when I have a backlog of corrections to make.”
So you really just don’t care enough to do quality work, partly because of some arbitrary schedule you inflicted on yourself that nobody cares about. Wouldn’t it be better to do it right the first time than have to go back and correct it months and years later, if at all?
Seriously though, what kind of professional job gives you several days to a week to write a report just so you can proofread it when you feel like it?
Get a life. If you can do better then shut up and do it without bitching at someone who has more guts in their little finger than you have in your whole body. It is a great comic, written by someone who has shown they have the guts to stand up before people like you, and admit they are not perfect. (like you must think you are)
1. I have a life, a really good one at that.
2. I never said, implicitly or explicitly that I could or would do better. Quite frankly, I have no interest in undertaking internet artistic pursuits.
3. It doesn’t take courage to complain about criticism, while simultaneously ignoring it regarding self-improvement.
4. I never claimed to be perfect, nor do I think I am. I have many faults, but I don’t flaunt them all over the internet for the entire world to see just so random idiots will make me feel important.
5. If it’s such a great comic, why doesn’t CD adhere to his own professed standards of quality workmanship instead of admittedly being lazy about it?
I would just propose everyone ignore Ebilwoodchuck. He obviously gets his kicks trying to inflame and irritate people and has obviously missed the whole point of this post.
He keep coming back. If the comic was REALLY as bad as he says, he would have left long ago.
Not that Im jumping to defend the internet troll but ebilwoodchukc has some valid points just not given in the nicest way. Cd you should expect and listen to critisim w/o focusing on how it was given. Bsides youre just proving him right by ignoring what he says.
I believe the past has shown that I do listen to criticism. Even that of the trolls. And yes, his points do have some merit. BUT, at the same time… Am I forcing anyone to read my comics? Did anyone have to purchase a membership or have to buy a pass in a store to read these comics? No? Then I would submit that you get what you paid for.
Not all comments left on the site are visible… There are others that are rather offensive. Some written meanly, others just not thought through. Which WAS the point of this whole post. To explain why there are issues and to point out that all of the comments that are sent, are seen, even if they do not appear on the site. Even our troll, Ebilwoodchuck left a rather offensive post not too long ago which isn’t on the website because it was deemed to be offensive.
Most of my published work (which includes self-published comics) does get checked a number of times by a number of people for spelling and printing mistakes. Great care is taken to make a quality product, because people spend there hard earned money on them. I don’t focus on the online comics that intently… I have gone back to fix spelling and errors in the online comics. Sometimes errors are fixed right away, sometimes they are left for a while.
I don’t need to be insulted/mocked/berated by commenter for trying to make an online comic/story and I’ve been debating closing down the ability to leave comments on comics because I am starting to get a little tired of it.
This is my first posting to any comic website, and it angers me that it must be under such circumstances. On other websites, I’m known as The Ebilwoodchuck, and until recently, had never even heard of this webcomic. This person posting using my screen name is beginning to cause problems for me in my own unrelated internet activities, mostly in people sending me inappropriate and sometimes threatening messages demanding I “leave CD alone”. I won’t be posting to this website after this; anyone posting under this or similar names is not The Ebilwoodchuck, and people who know me by this name really need to stop sending me hatemail.
CD, I’m a person who has repeatedly been bugged by your writing errors. But I’ve never posted any comments about it. Why? Two reasons: one, I’m not given to being stupidly rude to people (unlike 98% of the people who post on web site comments); and two, it’s not worth wasting my time and energy on “correcting” other people, especially when those people don’t want to be corrected. Seeing writing errors is my personal bugaboo. It’s your comic, and you put the effort into what you consider important. If the rest of us don’t like it, that’s our problem, not yours. You do this because you want to. It just happens that we enjoy reading it. But you don’t owe us anything.
Short version: Some people are always going to be dickheads. Ignore them. Don’t let their lack of consideration stop you from doing what you want to do. I guarantee you, there are more of us, people like me who read your stuff regularly and support you but rarely if ever comment, than there are of them.
I find CD Rudd’s art quality perfectly good and fit for purpose. I also like how it looks. So what if pros can do better. I bet 98% of the population couldn’t draw people as good as CD Rudd, and with such regularity; I know I couldn’t. If this is how the art is, I’ll keep reading it forever.