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Aug. 21st, 2009 11:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
grifstar... I need honest opinions.
Left-right, or Right-left?
I'm drawing closer(lolpun?) to comicing. Or at least whatever attempt I finally have for it. Sort of finally have a starting plan. I just.. don't know which way I should lay it out. Left-right sounds more logical, because I'm not Japanese. However, in a way I feel more wanting to do right-left since I do want it to be slightly more manga-esque instead of just.. "comics"(because honestly whenever I think of Western comics, what comes to mind is either stuff like Garfield, or stuff like Marvel/DC.. which is just a whole different kind of nerd I really don't care for). Plus.. I am more used to that style now.
... But I'm also worried if I don't, I'm just gonna be accused of being Wapanese. But really, I feel like I'm just gonna be some kind of wannabe no matter what I do.
And before people ask, yes, I do want to get the thing published if I get enough people to like it. And yes, it will for the most part be a webcomic too... probably..
Left-right, or Right-left?
I'm drawing closer(lolpun?) to comicing. Or at least whatever attempt I finally have for it. Sort of finally have a starting plan. I just.. don't know which way I should lay it out. Left-right sounds more logical, because I'm not Japanese. However, in a way I feel more wanting to do right-left since I do want it to be slightly more manga-esque instead of just.. "comics"(because honestly whenever I think of Western comics, what comes to mind is either stuff like Garfield, or stuff like Marvel/DC.. which is just a whole different kind of nerd I really don't care for). Plus.. I am more used to that style now.
... But I'm also worried if I don't, I'm just gonna be accused of being Wapanese. But really, I feel like I'm just gonna be some kind of wannabe no matter what I do.
And before people ask, yes, I do want to get the thing published if I get enough people to like it. And yes, it will for the most part be a webcomic too... probably..
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Date: 2009-08-23 02:19 am (UTC)A part of me also thinks that going Right-to-left is a bit, well, trying too hard Wapanese/weeaboo, much like seeing new fankids going overboard on random Japanese exclamations of "wai wai kawaii neku suki desu" type stuff. It's fun at the time for those in the same mind frame, but after you grow up a bit and look back on such, you realize that it's really just kinda silly. It almost borders on the "omg, everything Japanese is BETTER! ALWAYS!" mentality I see with younger fans. (I'm actually proud of having grown out of thinking the words comics and cartoons are dirty insults to manga and anime. There's crappy and awesome from all parts of the world in those media.)
Back to the real point:
Good planning of frames and art can make any choice of direction work, so it's probably best to chose the direction least likely to alianate the greater number of potential readers.