Since March I've been scribbling in my various sketchpads and writing notebooks in an attempt to come up with good future doodle candidates.  Some of those candidates have made their way into the latest batch of doodles I've plastered all over the Internet, and I have a pretty healthy stack of weird stuff waiting in the wings.  You lucky ducks... anyway, fun as the usual brand of stupidity is, I'm becoming more and more interested in ideas with a wee bit more substance.  You know, stories and series and crap.  I'm talking bona fide webcomic material.

Clarification:  when I say a wee bit, I really do mean a wee bit.  I have ZERO interest in writing or drawing anything remotely serious.  What I'm talking about is constructing things that have plots and characters, so long as they end up being completely ridiculous.  We're talking Diary of a Scary Monster-level of maturity, just expanded to cover several panels or pages.  Clear?  Good...

I have a few ideas that could translate well as comics, but I want to be very careful how I go about producing them.  For one, I don't want to turn any of these ideas into a serialized graphic novel published as a long-form comic.  Long-form just doesn't work for me; I don't have the patience for it, publishing a story one page at a time once or twice a week just fragments the story into a mess of shit, and I don't want to leave people hanging in the middle of a story because Real Life decides to intrude into my drawing schedule (or I flake out for no reason).  I don't want to do a four-panel gag-a-day comic, either.  Gag-a-day works great when you read it on the Internet & newspapers, but people tend to get pissy if their promised daily installment isn't ready for whatever reason*, and I don't want to get locked into producing a comic that never, ever ends.  So, I need a happy medium...

What I'd like to do is turn one of these ideas into something that has the best of both worlds:  short, two- to five-page stories that I can upload one page per day, every day (or every other day) for the duration of the story, written in a way so the reader can get a laugh at the end of the each day's page, and the reader knows the next page is FOR SURE going to publish the next day.  When I'm writing or drawing the next installment, I can put out the normal doodle nonsense, write about whatever, until the next story is ready to go, and then back to once a day.  Readers would subscribe to the website to get their dose of comic goofiness via email or RSS reader (or Twitter, Facebook, whatever) and they will know ahead of time when a fresh story is coming down the pipeline.

Is that a reasonable request?  Is that too much to ask for?  

Hmmmm...

This is all conceptual at this point.  I have a lot more writing and drawing to do before I can even talk about titles, release dates, or whatever, and given my somewhat flaky nature the whole thing could never come about.  Who knows, all this writing might finally lead me to that one-in-a-million film idea that will take the world by storm, and that would be all she wrote for my webcomic ambitions.  Crazy things happen all the time!  Anyway, that's all I have for now.  As this whole wacky concept solidifies I will post more (but not TOO much -- remember, no one wants to be the guy who constantly promises stuff and never delivers.  That guy ends up being a bitter loser living in the basement of his mom's house, eating greasy eggrolls and ramen noodles, all while trolling Internet forums in his underwear... yucko!).

Dan

*Yeah, yeah, I know, the comic is almost always free, the creator isn't getting paid for the gig, and Real Life constantly happens, but I tell ya, if the comic's banner says "Mondays and Thurdays", people expect something on Mondays and Thursdays!  Whether that's right or wrong is open to much debate, but I prefer to err on the side of caution...