So, how bout them comics? Yeah?

YEAH.

http://users.cjb.net/laxlightmotion/index1.html [users.cjb.net]

I'll say this: Not enough comics take place in airports. They manage to be faceless and homogenous while still being unique to where you are, and they're the perfect setting for all kinds of stories.

That being said, I agree with Barb on most points. The pencil work is nice-- the artist obviously have a lot of knowledge about still-life drawing-- but figures do seem stiff and awkward, and the no-face thing just creeps me out. One thing I liked was that, for a comic drawn all in pencil, it really doesn't show up half bad on the computer screen (pretty original, since usually pencil-only comics look really terrible and low-contrast when scanned in).

As to the font size: Everything written is tiny. Everything. If you'll notice, the artist of this comic (Mxyomatosis, I think his/her name is) frequents the forums, and whenever he/she posts a reply, it's in a reeeally tiny font as well. Do you think maybe the artist has a small monitor and just isn't compensating for those with larger ones? Who knows? Anyways, fix it. Overall, though, this comic could be a lot worse, and in this line of business that's a real compliment. B

~IJ

PS: Neat how Mxy included a soundtrack for his/her comic. Music with comics? Could it possibly work?

This is such a....I dunno. I've read this authors comics a lot, ever since I started on Drunk Duck. He/she (but I'm guessing he because of the car obsession) has one of the most experimental comics I've ever seen. However there's some things that keep it from being really great.

For example, the backgrounds are awesome. But they're not clean enough for me to be able to distinguish the same place twice in a row. I mean, if you showed me the airport buildings to try to show at which part of the airport something was going on, if you showed in again I probably wouldn't be able to see that they were the same thing. And then there's the characters. Relying on messed up hair to be able to tell them apart is not good. Because the dialogue is hard to read because of the size of the font, and because things change so readily because of the style, there's not many constant's in this comic. I can't tell things apart, and trying to read some of the fonts would mess up my vision more than it already is.

Story- ...It has a really cool feel at first, but I just can't get into it.

Overall you've got a great basis art wise. But you've only got the 'loose' drawing. What you NEED to do is 'tighten up' your lines. Make the characters have features. Make everything look more iconic and less sketchy so that each page is much easier to follow. But you've got some great basics to work on.

Ian Jay
PS: Neat how Mxy included a soundtrack for his/her comic. Music with comics? Could it possibly work?

Leave it to the people to decide, right?

As for the fonts and how everything is too tiny. Well. I`ll change that now, since well. On my damned moniter (make matters worse, a PSP Web Browser). Everything I write small, looks normal, but everything that is normal looks frickin` huge, like "Whoa, man" huge. Thanks for pointing out that. I never though of it. Any suggestion on what type of size font should be? It rangs around from 9, 10

.: Myxomatosis :.

If you're using fonts with lower case, you should go with 12-14 font size. If you're typing with comic fonts, with all capitals, go with 11-12.

Now for the final question. I need to know how this looks on other PCs. I have a 800x600 resolution (I`m low tech, bite me.) So it won`t help.

new version [users.cjb.net]

Is the font size better? and is the website design a little more better-er?
(Things are still being put together.)

.: Myxomatosis :.

Yep. 100% better.

L.A.X is very abstarct in character design and comic layouts but when it comes to sets and perspective drawing he's the best on DD.
I just would like to see claener line art and some color once in while.
Mucho Props to Myxie... :-D

L.A.X is very abstarct in character design and comic layouts but when it comes to sets and perspective drawing he's the best on DD.

The story is kinda hard to follow but I think it fits with the style of art.

I just would like to see cleaner line art and some color once in while.

Mucho Props to Myxie... :-D

Cheers.

.: Myxomatosis :.