If you know me, you know that I am obsessed with webcomics. They work very well with my slight online OCD. Ever since high school when a friend of mine turned me on to social networking sites and webcomics I have been compulsively checking certain sites at least once a day for updates.
Yu+Me Dream:
Over the years I have fallen into a weekly webcomic schedule. Mondays-Fridays it’s Questionable Content and Yu+Me Dream. Fridays are reserved for A Softer World, and Sundays go to the touchy-feely Post Secret. When an artist misses an update, or insists on having a life and thus posting a guest comic instead of the typical update, I get irritated. I feel like a very crucial part of my day is stolen from me.
I liken the experience to the comfort one might feel over their first cup of coffee of the day and reading the newspaper. If anyone still does that.
Now over the years I have tried out many other webcomics, but none of them really stuck. They lacked good writing, good art, or was just a genre that didn’t appeal to me. The thing is I would love to add another webcomic to my weekly schedule. Reading one update takes maybe one minute, at the most. Then it’s over and I have to wait another week (in reference to those webcomics only updated weekly) for my fix. I’m addicted.
But I realized that my favorites won’t last forever, even though I’ve been reading most of them for over six years now I know someday the artists will move on to something else.
I have always had a secret desire to have my own webcomic. It has not happened due to the fact that I am not a very good artist and am even worse at complicated computer programs used to create webcomics (the good ones anyway). It’s a sad state of affairs because let’s face it, my webcomic would be AWESOME.
My interest in webcomics has developed into the desire to purchase the books that often coincide with them. I’ve purchased A Softer World compilation for my sister, and one of the writer’s collection of short stories for myself. I also would love to get ahold of some original artwork of some of them. My point is, the things that were born online can live fruitful lives offline as well. And in fact I see a bright future for webcomics’ developments into other mediums (I’m certain Questionable Content will someday be made into a t.v. show. Anyone who has read it would agree it would be possible).
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Check out more of her work and some more information about the artist here. While you’re at it, look at the other posts on Lit Stack, it has a lot of great stuff for lovers of books.
