TELL IT TO THE DHARBIN :: Looking For Input
So guys, I'm looking for your opinion--
Since December of 2008, I've been doing a regular weekly comic, what I think of as my "strip," the one found here. It's extraordinarily time-consuming, although I love doing it. I'm not going to stop or anything; but as I have oft-referred to, I'm about to start a lonnnggg memoir project, and posting a page a week is going to prove tricky. And possibly incredibly boring.
On the other hand, for some reason people seem to enjoy my diary comics, which I really only started doing not even three months ago because Kate Beaton suggested everyone try to do Hourly Comics for a month. Well I couldn't do that, but I do like doing these little comics, and am slowly working around to a style that's half hurried and rushed and half thought-out, so that even when they're boring I'm getting cartooning practice.
So, the point: I'm thinking of trading places, essentially running my diary comics as my main strip, and working on little memoir stories (like the current "Poison Ivy") on the side, posting them in their entirety as they are finished. I'm wondering if this is a mistake? Do I endanger the scant readership I've developed? If you're reading this, you may even be that readership, so I thought you'd be the best person to ask.
The benefits to me are 1) an easier work schedule through con season (besides going to a few of them, I am one of the organizers of one); 2) a way to smooth out my process a little, make my stories a little less haphazard and more made; and 3) a nearly daily update schedule. Possibly 7 days a week, at least 5 days. So there's that.
Thoughts? I am listening. Thanks in advance!
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