TUESDAY TUESDAY TUESDAY IT'S TUESDAY
I was looking through some older comic strips of mine yesterday. Some of them were about 5 years old and only six panels. I'd completely forgotten them even as I was reading them. Generally they were funny, one of them made me laugh harder than I've laughed in a while, all of them were super bizarre and a handful of them had me debating if I ought to repurpose them in a new series; a second, looser comic (as if I need another project on my hands).
I haven't fully made my mind up of what to do. It's interesting having a bunch of disconnect ideas that don't belong anywhere. There are a couple of characters I've flirted around with for a while that still have no purpose, so I immediately thought of them as a vessel for these old ideas.
But while some the strips were just sketches, some where fully coloured and finished and actually had pretty good artwork as is. Maybe I'll compile it all into a book of its own some day. Just as a collection of random disconnected gag strips. Or maybe when the day comes that I do a patreon they'll be shared as a perk. I dunno.
But what it really highlighted...going back I mean...was how this is the first time I've really done anything with this much of a story. I don't know that I anything in this project is as funny as the funniest of my older stuff, but it definitely has the most pronounced world and characters of anything I've ever made before. It's odd, because I think it marks a shift in my personality and my style. I don't think I ever cared about stories and world building before. Even my drawing style back then was more ren and stimpy-ish. Like the drawings themselves were actually funnier.
On one hand it's planted a little seed of doubt. Like maybe I'm not being funny enough these days. But on some level I can also appreciate that it shows growth. People are actually growing attached to some of these characters and that's maybe better than just getting a big laugh and then being forgotten about. Also, humour is subjective. Just because I think something's funnier than something else doesn't mean it is.
Final note: I was saying about how I had some unfinished characters and ideas floating around, that didnt't really fit with this or any other project I'm currently working on...well that's basically how this whole comic started anyway. For years and years Tuft Luck was just a bunch of specific ideas and morbid jokes that I eventually had enough of to build a semi-cohesive world out of. Do I sound like a dork? I just wrote the term semi-cohesive and thought to myself I sound like a dork. Not that anyone even uses that word anymore. Why do I even care about this? How old am I?
Alright, that's enough of this.