This sounds funny as hell, but i think i am! I'm to emotionally attached to this comic! Not just this comic, but my art period! I believe i'm attached cause everytime i draw or write... put alittle of myself if not all in my work! Dammit man i need help!
I'm not that sensitive though where if someone says my work sucks that i'll get angry and start killing folks, but i will hunt them down and piss on em!

polo
This sounds funny as hell, but i think i am! I'm to emotionally attached to this comic! Not just this comic, but my art period! I believe i'm attached cause everytime i draw or write... put alittle of myself if not all in my work! Dammit man i need help!
I'm not that sensitive though where if someone says my work sucks that i'll get angry and start killing folks, but i will hunt them down and piss on em!

well...that's good to know.

mental note.

I'm attached to my comics, as well. However, The Burnhams is my favorite comic that I created because Ann Burnhams is my personal favorite character in my charater catalogue.

Sometimes, I dream that I team up with the Burnhams and go fight off evil and it does excite me. I, also, enjoy putting the Burnhams in difficult situations.

My first time, I got the idea of The Burnhams back in 1998 and I'm still living it every single day ever since.

I use to be extremely so, but it was really hurting me to be that way. I think I have a good balance now.

I think it's impossible to not be emotionally attached to your comic. Why do it if it's not important to you? I mean, sure, one could do it for the money (there's money in webcomics?) but where's the inspiration? Therein leads to the sitcomization of webcomics -- alas, a fate worse than death!

I do agree that one shouldn't be obsessively attached to one's comics. If you find yourself talking out loud to your characters when noone's around (and especially if people are around) -- get help, now! ;)

I'm pretty attached to most of my stories since they really show me a bit about myself through themes and characters, especially after they hit that point where they are so clearly defined that they essentially write their own responses and actions.

I don't let people read most of my stuff, because I'm afraid some deep secrets about myself will be revealed through them. (Odd because I don't mind people reading any kind of true autobiographical stuff...) When anyone (mostly parents and teachers) suggests seeking publishing, I get a horrified look on my face and a stabbing feeling in my gut. It's like they suggested I appear naked on the 10 o'clock news!

My comic is currently the project I have actually been excited about and stuck with the longest, so naturally I'm attached to it. The characters and world are part of my mind, and I have a lot of time invested into it.

Short stories and stuff I haven't invested that much time or thought on, I don't care that much about. I once had a big suitcase full of partial stories and I went through it and tossed out every single one that was less than 10 pages long and/or fanfiction.

dueeast
I do agree that one shouldn't be obsessively attached to one's comics. If you find yourself talking out loud to your characters when noone's around (and especially if people are around) -- get help, now!

I don't do that, but I do slip and call my roommates by my characters' names -- and they respond without hesitation. Which of us needs the therapist?

Yes. I created these fellows and each of my characters (whether good or bad) is one of my "kids" and I just love 'em. It makes me feel so proud to see them giving joy to people who enjoy reading about them. They feel how I feel and I feel how they feel. When one of them is sad, I become a little sad on the inside.

It's all just a connection.

Not all. For KATROPA, I wasn't THAT attatched to it.
http://geocities.com/bk_katropa/

But for Brood Knight and MAG-ISA I got soooo attatched to them.

Though right now, MAG-ISA is my biggest favorite of all comics I ever have. Its just sooo addictive. (At least there is ONE person addicted to it which is me. lol! )

I'm extremely attached. I AM Sidwarrious after all. That's why I don't ever put it up to be judged since I don't want poeple saying bad things about it, since in my heart of hearts I am SURE they will X__x.

*squeezes imaginary printed version of Vampire Phantasm*
I wuv you so muh-huh-huch!!! *sob*

I'm more attached to individual characters than the comic as a whole. During the planning stage for Shades , I had some fairly gruesome things lined up for some of my characters.

While writing the full script, however, I had to change certain sections. Bad things still happen to some but, in other cases, I just couldn't bear to inflict anything that nasty on the character in question!

Guess I'm just a big softy at heart!
;)

I cry every time I read mine (God this is lame) *Sniff*

I'm way, way too attached. I talk about Nadya all the time. i talk about it until my brother and girlfriend are kind of tired of it. Ah, well.

The more attached I am to the comic, the more the characters suffer.
MEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH..

mlai
The more attached I am to the comic, the more the characters suffer.
MEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH..

We must have the same ailment o_O

@DAJB: Me too. I am much more attached to the characters. But usually that means they get put in worse situations not better.

Now let's see you get out of THIS ONE! Or how would the character act/change if THIS happened?

I am way too attached to my comic BTW. I bought my house and keep my job mostly just to make the comic =P

Luckily, because of the hobby I had before getting back into making my comic, I don't mind people saying bad things about my comic. The last community I was in was a bunch of trolling heartless people indeed XD

Yeah, I am, although I don't really talk about it much with people outside of the internet. (Which is ironic, since it takes up about 80% of my free time. I guess I just usually feel like even though it's something I'm personally invested in, it won't seem very interesting to anyone else, lol.) That said, though, I don't really have a problem taking criticism on it, because I do want it to be the best that it can be. I know that (most of the time) criticism isn't a personal attack, so it really doesn't wound me personally when someone tells me they don't like the comic.

I pretty much agree with dueeast - especially when dealing with webcomics, there doesn't seem to be much of a reason to do them at all unless you're emotionally attached to it on some level. 90% of us will never make a living from webcomics. If you're expecting to do so, you're probably in for a nasty surprise unless you're working on something that's extremely marketable or you have very generous readers who donate a thousand dollars to you every month.

For the rest of us, it had better be something you love. lol!

Oh God, yes, I am. ^^; After so many years of working on it...I've actually met a lot of people (including my boyfriend of three years) because of it. Oh. You know. Not to mention I love working on it. ^.~

I think it's normal for people to be attached to something they create. Especially in this situation, where when you do it, you better love it. And it's strange, because when you get to really getting down to the bottom of your characters' behaviors, you can recognize your thought patterns in them....Anyone else get that? Sort of like how characters are just an extension of yourself, or rather, they're some element that helps you better understand yourself...

But, anyway...I think it's only normal. As for people putting their characters through more pain than happiness when being attached, that's probably better, since they (usually) come out being deeper characters. Those who coddle their characters out of attachment...Blech.

To a point, yes. I've invested time and effort in it, and I really like most of my characters. However, the fact that I'm emotionally attached doesn't mean that I can't take criticism.

I don't think it's possible to create anything of substance (i.e: something that takes a long time, a lot of effort or is otherwise significant) without becoming emotionally attached in SOME way. Also, as far as webcomics are concerned... Well, we do them because we WANT to, yes/no? That simple fact alone usually ensures an emotional attachment.

Sort of. I like to have a certain emotional distance from my comics so I can look at them more objectively. Not to say that I'm not attached to my comic at all,for the most part I like the environments, characters, and scenerios I come up with. I also don't want to end up being someone who takes his comic too seriously.

It's kind of hard not be be too attached. Even if you start off working on something and you don't care much about it you'll become attached over time.
It's not a bad thing though. I think my emotional attachment to my comic drives me to make it the best I can.

The only real downside I've noticed is that I'm so close to the work I don't really know how to advertise it properly. I have a lot of trouble with descriptions and summarizations. I end up with either too little information to describe it adequately or too much to be a description and not a badly written prose version of the story.

I understand how you feel kytri. Cept my love makes me avoid critics and not advertise it like I should. I don't want no one saying nothing bad about me baby.

I'm more attached to my art than the story as a whole. I know I'm not a good writer, and my story is just a chance for me to practice my art.

See, I'm attached to the story. It's actually a really good story, it just takes a LONG time to develope. It won't be really developed til page 200X__x I know, I'm currently drawing that arc up(I'm not the artist, but I do draw everything beforehand so my artist knows placement) and when I first put the comic up and it was just the prologue I was really hurt when people kept saying I had a shitty story when they weren't giving it a chance to develope. That's the problem with action. Oh well. Love it or hate it I guess.

I was emotionally attached to my characters in Temple...and it really depressed me, because I knew what had happened to them and what was going to happen to them. There's a term for this when a writer becomes emotionally attached to their fictional characters, but it escapes me at the moment.

dueeast
I think it's impossible to not be emotionally attached to your comic. Why do it if it's not important to you?

I find increasingly that I am attached to my webcomic--if I don't update it regularly, as has been the case in the past two weeks--I definitely feel pangs of withdrawal.

I'm definitely attached to my comics. I'm always trying to come up with new stuff for them and if I don't get time to work on them I start to miss drawing them.

Oh yes im definatly attached, i mean i love my comic, im fully 100% devoted to it, my girlfriend wants time with me, but my comic comes first, seriously its starting to scare me actually

I hate my webcomic.

I'm TOO attached. I should marry it.
Seriously though. I feel almost obsessive compulsive about it sometimes. I am physically exhausted after drawing a full color strip/page. But I ain't complainin' or anything...

Like PR said, it's like a kid, really. You give birth to it, you feed it, it grows...of course the good thing about a comic is that it doesn't crap all over you. At least, usually...

Oh, yeah, I'm definitely attached to it. I feel that you kinda have to be in order to make the comic seem more "real" to its readers. It also helps you to strive to keep the story strong and to get better. At least, that's how it is for me.