Community-funded comic?

[dale coba]

The "built" approach has widest appeal. Beyond being your preference, it makes sense when you want to draw many people in. As I wrote earlier, I'm also intrigued by the thought of a project with alternate/additional pages. Transformationalists, mandroid-lovers, any group could build off the original, paying the same talent for a few panels more. Perhaps better still, two preferences could share in the cost if the panels can be re-lettered (like with a white-background speech balloon).

- Dale Coba

[dale coba]

Once the core story and then images are produced, it potentially turns into a narrative captioning contest for each subset of our diverse community. There's precedent for altering stories to fit a taste in our community; and if we pulled this off, I think it might really capture both a range of content but also the character which has made this board endure - heck, thrive - despite the varying interests. I know we ain't 4Chan, but what comparable site has lasted so long?

A technosexual multi-comic would be very meta; therefore very much FC.

- Dale Coba

[dale coba]

I would like to point out that Native Americans had no access to interwebs when they chose their systems of governance. I'm not even sure that all tribes were organized like that, with one leader and everybody else a subject.

While Robotman's soup is being cooked, I won't be one to risk spoiling the pot.
I may take a bowl of the product, and see if there's more than one flavor to be evoked by the ingredients.

- Dale Coba

[--NightBattery--]

i think most were lead by elder councils...
and now that im here...i dont think the time is right for me, i want to, but...i cant... but eventually,if FC still alive, if it can survive i will fund a page or two.
nice, by the way.



Regards.

[WilloWisp]

Where there's a will, there isn't always sufficient resources. I'd be happy to help, but all I can offer is writing, not funding.

[Hayley Anachronism]

If we were talking Transformed, I would, but Built does little for me. Sorry.

[WilloWisp]

If we were talking Transformed, I would, but Built does little for me. Sorry.

Hello Yin. I'm Yang. Nice to meet you.

[Hayley Anachronism]

If we were talking Transformed, I would, but Built does little for me. Sorry.

Hello Yin. I'm Yang. Nice to meet you.

It's a tough decision. Money is perpetually tight for me. I like this forum, and I feel like I've gained some good relationships here. But one thing I've grown to appreciate is that I come at the fetish from a very different angle than a lot of the posters. There's nothing wrong with it, and I'd support however I can. I have some experience scripting and I would be willing to contribute a Built script, but as far as putting money out, I have to be selective.

[WilloWisp]

It's a tough decision. Money is perpetually tight for me. I like this forum, and I feel like I've gained some good relationships here. But one thing I've grown to appreciate is that I come at the fetish from a very different angle than a lot of the posters. There's nothing wrong with it, and I'd support however I can. I have some experience scripting and I would be willing to contribute a Built script, but as far as putting money out, I have to be selective.

I probably shouldn't have been quite so glib there without additional clarification: I think it's funny (and, in situations like this, almost tragic) that so many people come to this fetish for completely different, almost opposite reasons.

You don't need to justify your position in the slightest. There are plenty of transformation fans here, and I believe I even recall that the built/transformation split is as close to 50/50 as makes no difference. Financially and ethically, we are not in opposition. As far as I'm concerned, were both big fans of pizza, and you just prefer different toppings from me.

[Hayley Anachronism]

No offense taken, WillOWisp. And even if you were, I have a pretty thick skin.

[dale coba]

I'm hoping easy-to-use web apps will come along soon, allowing each of us to create half-decent mock-ups of our stories. Then we could chip in to a known project, if we wanted a story drawn professionally.

- Dale Coba

[WilloWisp]

I'm hoping easy-to-use web apps will come along soon, allowing each of us to create half-decent mock-ups of our stories. Then we could chip in to a known project, if we wanted a story drawn professionally.

Here's a thought: Let's wiki it.

Make a section on FembotWiki for comic proposals, with a standard set of checkpoints: Concept, outline, script, pre-visualization, and initial artwork.

Our resident creative folk could toss up ideas, contribute checkpoint material to someone else's project, or just express interest in a project that looks promising.

So, for instance, Dale could put up a few paragraphs describing "Stepford Nights - The After-Dark Adventures of Amorous Automata." He, or someone else even, could later step in with brief outlines for the story. An artist might (either of their own choice, or as a smaller commission) come up with a few sketches or preliminary artwork to convey the look and feel, and so on.

As a wiki page, the ongoing progress would be easier to parse than any discussion thread - and lack of progress wouldn't doom the proposal to dropping off the "Comic proposals" page. Discussion would still be possible on the project's talk page. Any given project would be easy to monitor, and could progress either by donated talent, or by another wiki user personally commissioning individual elements. If Stepford Nights struck a chord with me, I could volunteer my talents, or contribute elements which I commissioned from others, or simply post my enthusiasm for the project on its talk page.

Granted, there's nothing that would really prevent that kind of collaboration in the forum rather than the wiki, but a wiki page that hasn't been updated in a year has more visibility and persistence than a forum post that hasn't been updated in a year - and a wiki page that's been constantly updated every day for the past month is far easier to digest than a multi-page ongoing discussion thread over the same period. Stalled ideas don't disappear, active ideas don't become impenetrable to attracting new interest.

[dale coba]

Our Adobe Overlords would like us to use their free, collaborative script-writing web app.

http://tv.adobe.com/watch/adobe-cs-live ... coauthors/

Dare we trust them?

- Dale Coba

[fembotfan]

No we should not trust them . An acquaintance of mine works for adobe, and their so into web analytics it's scary.

[Doctor Robo]

At the risk of tooting my own horn, we have been cranking out ASFR-themed comics at our MetrobayComix.com site for the better part of a year now, and for more than nine years in all. Whether it's gynoids, cyborgs, dolls, hypno - we have covered a number of different sub-fantasies and are still going strong to this day.

I mention this only because a few of us at Metrobay Comix are loyal ASFRians, and may be able to assist with your commissioned comic needs. It's conceivable that the members here could generate a short comic outline or script, which we could render and publish on our site. All we would ask in return is for you to join our site to see it, assuming you aren't members already (I know a few of you are). You'd also get the added benefit of access to all of our previously published robot-themed comics.

Let me know if this is something the group would be interested in, and we can discuss ways to make it happen.

Thanks,
- Doc