Can you give me even a single example of a webcomic drawn and written collectively that is any good? Even stick-figure comics require a consistent style, both in art and in writing. Comics seem very low on the totem-pole of things which people can work collectively on.
If you consider the daily top reddit ragecomic as a webcomic of sorts, then it’s one of better quality than many “normal” webcomics (and better than shminux’s), and is the product of many many people voting together—some make comics, some vote on comics to increase the accuracy of selection, some contribute images that are reused, some make apps for creating comics. Example!
If you consider the daily top reddit ragecomic as a webcomic of sorts, then it’s one of better quality than many “normal” webcomics
I saw the first five of those, and they all seemed absolutely horrible to me—ugly art, and stupid writing. And you say these are the top-voted ones?
As for the example you linked to, the art is so inconsistent that initially I couldn’t tell that the face in panel 4 is supposed to be the same as in panels 2 and 3. other flaws is that it doesn’t have a consistent marking for speech vs thought, so you can’t tell that Panel 3 is just thinking these things or saying them.
In short, it’s still a horrible comic for me, and something like that would drive me away from LW, not draw me in. I would probably mark the whole LessWrong site as “horribly offensive to your aesthetic, don’t you ever click here again”, only slightly above goatce.x , if something like that had been my first impression of it.
There’s a reason that many people came to LessWrong through HPMoR: Methods of Rationality is an actually good piece of fanfiction. Those comics you linked, and shminux’s also—they’re absolute crap IMO.
Eh, it’s an acquired taste I guess, though that could be said of pretty much anything. There is a lot of conventions on what faces mean, inside jokes, etc. - once you get used to those, I’d still say it’s better than most webcomics, though calling them “good” may be a bit of a stretch.
I don’t deny that lesswrong rage comics would probably be pretty bad, and may repel people more than it attracts—and those it would attract may not be the ones we want. It’s just the best example I can find of a collaboratively made webcomic that’s worth reading.
If you consider the daily top reddit ragecomic as a webcomic of sorts, then it’s one of better quality than many “normal” webcomics (and better than shminux’s), and is the product of many many people voting together—some make comics, some vote on comics to increase the accuracy of selection, some contribute images that are reused, some make apps for creating comics. Example!
I saw the first five of those, and they all seemed absolutely horrible to me—ugly art, and stupid writing. And you say these are the top-voted ones?
As for the example you linked to, the art is so inconsistent that initially I couldn’t tell that the face in panel 4 is supposed to be the same as in panels 2 and 3. other flaws is that it doesn’t have a consistent marking for speech vs thought, so you can’t tell that Panel 3 is just thinking these things or saying them.
In short, it’s still a horrible comic for me, and something like that would drive me away from LW, not draw me in. I would probably mark the whole LessWrong site as “horribly offensive to your aesthetic, don’t you ever click here again”, only slightly above goatce.x , if something like that had been my first impression of it.
There’s a reason that many people came to LessWrong through HPMoR: Methods of Rationality is an actually good piece of fanfiction. Those comics you linked, and shminux’s also—they’re absolute crap IMO.
Eh, it’s an acquired taste I guess, though that could be said of pretty much anything. There is a lot of conventions on what faces mean, inside jokes, etc. - once you get used to those, I’d still say it’s better than most webcomics, though calling them “good” may be a bit of a stretch.
I don’t deny that lesswrong rage comics would probably be pretty bad, and may repel people more than it attracts—and those it would attract may not be the ones we want. It’s just the best example I can find of a collaboratively made webcomic that’s worth reading.