Comments on: Review: Creating comics goes social with Bitstrips http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2008/03/20/review-creating-comics-goes-social-with-bitstrip/ The source for industry news for the professional cartoonist Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:54:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Garey Mckee http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2008/03/20/review-creating-comics-goes-social-with-bitstrip/#comment-70941 Garey Mckee Sat, 22 Mar 2008 02:46:13 +0000 http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2008/03/20/review-creating-comics-goes-social-with-bitstrip/#comment-70941 This is ver interesting. Especially in light of Dawn's development of her comics site. I had mentioned in that thread that the only way any comics site is going to get any major traffic to warrant good ad revenue is to somehow make it socially interactive. This is ver interesting. Especially in light of Dawn’s development of her comics site. I had mentioned in that thread that the only way any comics site is going to get any major traffic to warrant good ad revenue is to somehow make it socially interactive.

]]> By: Mike Rhode http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2008/03/20/review-creating-comics-goes-social-with-bitstrip/#comment-70933 Mike Rhode Fri, 21 Mar 2008 23:41:07 +0000 http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2008/03/20/review-creating-comics-goes-social-with-bitstrip/#comment-70933 Here's an interview I haven't listened to yet: *BITSTRIPS*FORTUNE COOKIE CHRONICLES*MOST STOLEN BOOKS* Jian Ghomeshi talks to Ba - the Canadian creator of cartooning social network site BitStrips. And New York Times columnist Jennifer 8 Lee talks about her book The Fortune Cookie Chronicles about how Chinese food developed outside China. Plus, a look at the most pilfered book titles and why they get shoplifted Right click to Download Q: The Podcast for Wednesday, March 19, 2008 [mp3 file: runs 57:05] http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/qpodcast_20080320_5051.mp3 Here’s an interview I haven’t listened to yet:

*BITSTRIPS*FORTUNE COOKIE CHRONICLES*MOST STOLEN BOOKS* Jian Ghomeshi
talks to Ba – the Canadian creator of cartooning social network site
BitStrips. And New York Times columnist Jennifer 8 Lee talks about her
book The Fortune Cookie Chronicles about how Chinese food developed
outside China. Plus, a look at the most pilfered book titles and why
they get shoplifted

Right click to Download Q: The Podcast for Wednesday, March 19, 2008
[mp3 file: runs 57:05]
http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/qpodcast_20080320_5051.mp3

]]> By: Norm Feuti http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2008/03/20/review-creating-comics-goes-social-with-bitstrip/#comment-70854 Norm Feuti Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:00:41 +0000 http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2008/03/20/review-creating-comics-goes-social-with-bitstrip/#comment-70854 My concern would be this bit in their terms of use: <i><b>You will retain ownership in all Content You post on the site. By posting Content, you grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, Bitstrips a worldwide, perpetual, royalty-free and non-exclusive license to use, modify, publicly display, reproduce and distribute such Content until You or We remove it from the Site.</b></i> My concern would be this bit in their terms of use:

You will retain ownership in all Content You post on the site. By posting Content, you grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, Bitstrips a worldwide, perpetual, royalty-free and non-exclusive license to use, modify, publicly display, reproduce and distribute such Content until You or We remove it from the Site.

]]> By: Howard Tayler http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2008/03/20/review-creating-comics-goes-social-with-bitstrip/#comment-70810 Howard Tayler Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:22:42 +0000 http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2008/03/20/review-creating-comics-goes-social-with-bitstrip/#comment-70810 <i>And it requires no artistic ability.</i> I'll argue against that, because I think panel composition is an artistic ability. People with no panel composition skills, who can't see in their minds' eye what needs to be changed to pull off a particular gag, those people will be churning out the submediocre content. People who DO have those skills can probably do okay, and will likely do even better if Bitstrips ever gets around to expanding the palette a little. This isn't going to threaten hand-drawn cartooning, however. No more so, at least, than MIDI devices with orchestral samples threatened orchestras back in the 80's and 90's. --Howard And it requires no artistic ability.

I’ll argue against that, because I think panel composition is an artistic ability. People with no panel composition skills, who can’t see in their minds’ eye what needs to be changed to pull off a particular gag, those people will be churning out the submediocre content.

People who DO have those skills can probably do okay, and will likely do even better if Bitstrips ever gets around to expanding the palette a little.

This isn’t going to threaten hand-drawn cartooning, however. No more so, at least, than MIDI devices with orchestral samples threatened orchestras back in the 80′s and 90′s.

–Howard

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