Enter Piper, the last of the central characters of Aquarium Drinking. Originally I had given her a 3/4 sleeve tattoo on her right arm but it always ended up looking like a mess so I went with the more appropriate alcoholic mermaid silhouette that you now see. If you want to see the original tattoo and understand why it had to go then vote. The incentive is a picture of Piper as she was originally drawn. Also it is once again the beginning of a month so it’s easier to get high up on the list if you vote heavy now, vote everyday. Why do I want you to vote? Because the higher I am on the Top Webcomics List the more traffic I see coming from that website. It’s good traffic too, the visitors that original from TWC tend to stick around and read the whole story.
Oh yeah, the new blog portion of Aquarium Drinking…
Last week I was supposed to write about the other type of webcomic blog that I actually enjoy reading but I decided to write about the two types of blogs that I don’t like so, let me get back to that.
These blog installments are written to let my audience know why I am hesitant to write an blog to accompany my webcomic.
In addition to the webcomic blog that drops valuable knowledge about the technical aspects of making webcomics I often enjoy the webcomic blog that shows the reader a piece of what is going on in the authors mind and life. Some authors will talk about their work and family lives outside of their webcomic life and this can be very interesting because people fascinate me. Especially “normal” people. Everyone has a story, every life story is worth hearing, is unique and is of value. This is why these little blogs fascinate me. Although I respect these blogs I could never write one of these myself.
Here’s something that I don’t get, In memoirs or autobiographies of writers, you’d think that much of the story would be them writing and rewriting and writing some more. But you never read this in their life stories. Considering the amount of time that one needs to spend on writing. and not just the physical act but the endless hours of thinking that precedes the writing, you’d think that an authors life story would contain page after page of silent contemplation or silent writing but it never does.
This last statement gives me an idea for a blog for another day “How comic book artists think that they work harder and spend more time working on a page then comic book writers and are wrong.” But that’s not next week, next week I will conclude my “why I am hesitant to write a webcomic blog” series. I have told you the types of blogs that I like and the types of blogs that I dislike, next week I will reveal and write the webcomic blog that I fear that I will someday write.
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