Creative futures 5th March 2012 (PM)

Monday 5th March 2012 - Afternoon


Building an audience : Making a living from comics - by John Allison

http://scarygoround.com/
This to me seemed one of the most engaging talks from the week. 
John made his living primarily from online web-comics starting out on Scary go round to eventually Bad machinery, at one point was the first UK comic artist to make a sustainable living from doing so.

This talk saw John pulling up work from his early stages when he was just starting to experiment. while showing us these I have to commend him for having the courage to point out the flaws he felt he made in the work, as he was still learning and adapting a way of working that felt comfortable to him.
This was encouraging to see. As i feel the problem in these weeks there are too many people who would show work and we were just supposed to sit there and marvel at them. 
If this uni has taught me anything it's when your work is finished what have you learned and how would you change it if you had the chance.

The overall message I took from this talk was, building an audience seemed to be persevere in what you do. It will take longer than you would have liked but everyone has to start somewhere... Just work, work and work some more. Then when you're finished work again. Go to con's put your work out there, establish a fan base....but not cats! They don't care.