I've mentioned offsite that I'm interested again in publishing a webcomic. I'm considering making one from a (prose) short story I wrote and revised over a few years.
The perspective on the short story gave me continuous trouble, and the offline and online social environments made the strong homoerotic content too risky for release. In other words: I was too frustrated to publish the story as it is.
But the story has promise for illustration. One of the main characters is physically unique; he might be visually interesting. The settings are not too complicated. There are stretches of silence—excepting background sound effects—that would fit with a visual medium. The internal and external conflicts are all easily expressed through action. Most of the dialogue is brief, meaning dialogue bubbles might not compete with the art.
As a short story, I wouldn't have an impossible multi-year commitment to drawing that a full book-length story would require.
My illustration ability has improved significantly over the past several years, so I won't have as far to progress to make serviceable images. (See the footnote if you feel an urge to suggest AI in response to this sentence.)
While I can't do anything about the hateful politics spawning a new rise in queerphobic censorship, I have less hostility directed at me personally than I did when I allowed hateful people daily access to my home and headspace. That makes sharing the type of work that's frequently targeted by political conservatives (or regressives) less emotionally exhausting.
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To use it as a template, I dug up a script I wrote five years ago. (Five years ago?! Where is time going?!)
My interest in that script had dried when I realized that characters spending most of their time in an elevator having a flirtatious conversation about social expectations in a superhero world would maybe be boring to both draw and read.
But I feel the dialogue if funny if you can follow along. I'm thinking about posting the script as-is.
Question: Would you read it on Medium.com (made available without payment) or Wordpress.com?
Footnote:: To AI bros:
No, I won't use text-to-image generators for human-starving derivative shit that's based on corporate lies and theft from actual artists. Fuck off. Then go touch grass. Preferably the tall kind you'd want to learn the name of from a real person.
