I read something in The Webcomics Examiner this morning that resonated with me as a truth about new media on the web.

“Webcomic creators and readers are always going on about how freeing the web is”, wrote Mike Meginnis. “…But for all the benefits of this freedom, there are also very real dangers. It takes genuine discipline to make good art, and for many, it is exceedingly difficult to maintain such discipline in the face of so very many bells and whistles.”

How well I understand what he means. It was liberating to discover all the choices available to me on the web as a writer, illustrator and self-publisher. Yet, the vertigo that soon followed became paralyzing, until I was able to make some decisions and stick with them. I was somewhat like a dog who, when faced with three balls thrown in three different directions, can’t decide which one to chase but only turns around in circles and then stops, all its enthusiasm and direction scrambled into disorientation. I’ve had to learn to chase some balls while letting others roll away and lie forgotten in the grass.

Meginnis was writing in praise of Maroon, a weekly webcomic in which every page is the same size and uses the same set of limited colors.

Other Posts Categorized as Web Comics:

• March Issue of Sequential Tart - March 1st, 2007
• Review of A Girl and Her Fed - January 3rd, 2007
• Webcomics Don't All Suck - November 24th, 2006
• Bunk Magazine, a Hypermedia Humor E-Zine, Launches - September 11th, 2006
• Bob the Angry Flower - September 10th, 2006
• Gwen Rachel Stanley's Latest: A Month of Sundays - August 15th, 2006
• Scarygirl (Web Comic) - July 27th, 2006
• Webcomics Examiner Interviews Scott McCloud - July 2nd, 2006
• Minus - April 11th, 2006
• Gwen Rachel Stanley's Paper Moon - April 3rd, 2006