This very conversation is what every writting session of mine devolves into. I end up laying on the floor, staring at the popcorn ceiling until one side says, “To Hell with it,” and I either write or play Half-life 2 and get nothing accomplished.
I appreciate the way Girl smiles in panel 7. I can’t decide if she’s smiling at “Forever” or “people stop reading books,” but in either case, it is a pretty good smile.
Love it. I have been obssesed with Bajtin and Voloshinov these last months.
Everything is a remake, but every remake is a new event in the discours’s life. That’s why we, human people, talk every day without feeling redundant!
There’s a huge amount of creative ground not covered yet. The problem is that everyone wants to be the next Penny Arcade or XKCD, anything less than that is (a) not going to secure you financially and (b) probably not going to get you mentioned on Wikipedia. Everyone covers the same ground over and over again, trying to recreate that magic formula.
How about a webcomic that’s so specific in its tone that it’s only going to appeal to maybe ten thousand people around the world, the vast majority of whom will never even find out about you? No… waste of time.
You’d have to be a masochist to spend your life creating something that’s going to alienate almost everyone.
I love C&G, don’t get me wrong, but sometimes it irks me that such beautiful and open ended, philosophical thoughts are presented and then crushed by Girl’s hipster cynicism. I get that this is often what makes the comics most enjoyable, but every once in a while there’s one that could really get everybody thinking different, in a good way, but is finished with a big, proverbial, “eff that”. *sigh* More people ought to have Cat and Girl’s conversations in real life but not squash the ideas as pointless. If we could just do that more, there would be boundless creativity with which to forge new ideas, instead of the same old hamburger every day.
I hate shamelessly pimping my webcomic. It’s why I don’t include my website with my comments 98% of the time. But every now and then I think, ‘what’s the point in having dignity when your webcomic only has ten readers?’
And then I spend the next three months thinking, ‘when you’ve only got ten readers, dignity is the only thing you have.’
@David Thomsen: Posterity should be grateful for these rare masochistic people who alienate almost everyone of their contemporaneous. Imagine Kafka would have said, “nah, screw the Metamophosis, I’ll write something everyone understands.”!
Sure, for these people life is no fun, but there is no reason that they should give in. Baudelaire was appreciated but after WWII, and Nietzsche was convinced that he cannot be really understood but by posterity. Just imagine these guys would have given up!
July 29, 2010
I remake totes into backpacks and pencil bags.
July 29, 2010
This very conversation is what every writting session of mine devolves into. I end up laying on the floor, staring at the popcorn ceiling until one side says, “To Hell with it,” and I either write or play Half-life 2 and get nothing accomplished.
July 29, 2010
I appreciate the way Girl smiles in panel 7. I can’t decide if she’s smiling at “Forever” or “people stop reading books,” but in either case, it is a pretty good smile.
July 29, 2010
The Work of Art in the Age of Post-Modern Reproduction
July 29, 2010
Love it. I have been obssesed with Bajtin and Voloshinov these last months.
Everything is a remake, but every remake is a new event in the discours’s life. That’s why we, human people, talk every day without feeling redundant!
July 29, 2010
(OK sometimes we DO feel a little redundat… but that’s another problem…)
July 30, 2010
There’s a huge amount of creative ground not covered yet. The problem is that everyone wants to be the next Penny Arcade or XKCD, anything less than that is (a) not going to secure you financially and (b) probably not going to get you mentioned on Wikipedia. Everyone covers the same ground over and over again, trying to recreate that magic formula.
How about a webcomic that’s so specific in its tone that it’s only going to appeal to maybe ten thousand people around the world, the vast majority of whom will never even find out about you? No… waste of time.
You’d have to be a masochist to spend your life creating something that’s going to alienate almost everyone.
July 30, 2010
Is it shamelessly pimp our own webcomics time?
July 30, 2010
This is how I feel about vacuuming. Can’t we just pickle the cleanliness? Hmm.
July 30, 2010
i like pickles
July 30, 2010
Quick! Count all of the things you haven’t thought of!
July 30, 2010
I love C&G, don’t get me wrong, but sometimes it irks me that such beautiful and open ended, philosophical thoughts are presented and then crushed by Girl’s hipster cynicism. I get that this is often what makes the comics most enjoyable, but every once in a while there’s one that could really get everybody thinking different, in a good way, but is finished with a big, proverbial, “eff that”. *sigh* More people ought to have Cat and Girl’s conversations in real life but not squash the ideas as pointless. If we could just do that more, there would be boundless creativity with which to forge new ideas, instead of the same old hamburger every day.
July 30, 2010
Maybe relevant
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Anxiety_of_Influence
August 1, 2010
@Jakejm – Girl’s reactions can be seen as a cautionary tale rather than an example.
August 6, 2010
If pickles are involved, it’s all right.
November 3, 2010
I hate shamelessly pimping my webcomic. It’s why I don’t include my website with my comments 98% of the time. But every now and then I think, ‘what’s the point in having dignity when your webcomic only has ten readers?’
And then I spend the next three months thinking, ‘when you’ve only got ten readers, dignity is the only thing you have.’
July 18, 2013
@David Thomsen: Posterity should be grateful for these rare masochistic people who alienate almost everyone of their contemporaneous. Imagine Kafka would have said, “nah, screw the Metamophosis, I’ll write something everyone understands.”!
Sure, for these people life is no fun, but there is no reason that they should give in. Baudelaire was appreciated but after WWII, and Nietzsche was convinced that he cannot be really understood but by posterity. Just imagine these guys would have given up!