I got the formattin’ blues.
Comics are a tricky beast for me. If you look at the current incarnation of Cosmic Dash, you’ll see the format is continually changing. Of course, some of these changes, from hand-drawn to squarish dialogue balloons are, in my opinion, improvements.
On the other hand, the dimensions and shape of the pages has been alternating, recently I switched to a standard-sized comic book page, featuring three rows of panels per page. However with this latest page I am working on, I seem to be switching back to two rows of panels per update, only with different dimensions.
I believe my problem is that I am unsure of where my comic will ultimately go. Will I just be doing a webcomic? Do I want to see this in print one day? More importantly, if I do intend to do Cosmic Dash in print, wouldn’t it be a smarter move to redraw the pages? These are questions I keep asking myself as I work.
I am indeed pleased with, and enjoying, doing this comic, as something about it is clicking for me this time. But it’s all just so experimental, even now. I’ve not quite found what works for me, and I doubt I will anytime soon. We’ll have to see what happens. The minute I start updating multiple times a week is when I’ve found my groove. Until then, I can only endure my barrage of conflicting creative impulses.
