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3rd Voice: 62nd Scene: The Last Capital

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your oz art is so good we want to eat it

thank you! the book is on sale and inexpensive enough that you probably could eat it without stressing out too much about it, but I would not personally recommend this.

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Hi! So, is Xunditriggar's breathing tank/bleach filter thing completely broken? It looks kaput, but he's still wearing it. Thanks!

the man loves garbage what can i say

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I just reread Vattu and first of all it’s really good and second of all I got a lot to say/ask is that good?

As in will you be annoyed if i send asks about that or should i not. And if I can (which I get if you don’t want me too) should i send in a big ask or small asks?

I don't keep up with correspondence on here very well but you are welcome to send whatever you like of course.

I also have a LETTER COLUMN! https://rice-boy.com/3rdvoice/archive.lettercol.php

i am so glad you like the comic!!!

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comic's back

59th Scene: Argument

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Love this conversation.

I'm on my second semester teaching a class actually called "web comics," lol, and it has been helpful to articulate my experience of this shift to students (all too young to have been around for much of the transition being discussed).

It IS bleak, it IS a predictable corporate colonization & hollowing-out process. The internet IS culturally broken in ways that it wasn't several years ago, when I and others participating in this conversation here were starting making webcomics.

BUT: people are still people, and there are still many of them who will be interested in the weird, idiosyncratic work you want to make. There is functionally an infinite number of them. This is still in a way a MIRACULOUS time to be making independent comics: you don't have to pay thousands of dollars to print and distribute your serialized book, you can put it online, EVERYWHERE, for free. This is INCREDIBLE.

As individual artists we can't change the huge, systemic things happening! We can't turn the tide of the algorithmic-presentation logic of the entire internet! We can't make huge swaths of the population go back to RSS, or get back in the habit of visiting individual websites, or whatever. BUT we can do something-- we can make work without compromising in the ways the platforms want us to compromise. We can engage with our audience and other artists in a humane and honest way... We can say things and make things that institutional pop culture can't.

basically we are doing the actual work of pop culture here, as independent & self-motivated artists. what we are making is more important than these platforms and will outlast them.

I have been wanting to make a low-artifice interview podcast around a lot of these ideas; maybe i do that sometime soon; it is nice to see this stuff talked about by folks I know and whose work I really like

In your view/experience. is the rate of "incompleteness" among webcomics more or less the nature of online personal projects as a whole? Or is there something specific to webcomics like laboriousness, audience expectations, relative medium infancy or whatnot?

well for one thing webcomics has changed significantly in the last ten years. it used to have a much lower barrier for entry, just get a smackjeeves account or set up a website with a wordpress plugin. starting a webcomic when i started my webcomic vs starting a webcomic now are totally different experiences.

so i can only speak to people who started their webcomics roughly ten years ago. and roughly ten years ago a lot of us were a whole lot younger with a lot more time and energy to spend on a comic for free. this part is probably still somewhat true for new artists.

but then you get older. your ideas change. your skill develops and the old stuff isn't as good. or you don't have as much time, you got a day job. unless you're one of like five people on earth your webcomic is not paying your rent. you need to make money. your shoulder hurts. you're 30 now. you're struggling to make updates on time between whatever else makes you happy and what else you need to do to live. you wrote this story when you were 21, you don't relate to it anymore, you have different ideas, you've grown up, your audience has noticeably dropped off from the peak, social media managing is hard, you have to go to work, you're so tired, all the time.

it's a lot of things.

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Happening now!! https://www.twitch.tv/evandahm

1st Passage ends on Monday March 4. I am doing a little livestream that night if you are into it!!!!!! 8 pm EST, at http://twitch.tv/evandahm . Nothing really elaborate planned; talking, drawing, music, q&a. see u

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1st Passage ends on Monday March 4. I am doing a little livestream that night if you are into it!!!!!! 8 pm EST, at http://twitch.tv/evandahm . Nothing really elaborate planned; talking, drawing, music, q&a. see u

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3rd Voice: 54th Scene: No sense

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3 new 3rd Voice songs by my brother, on bandcamp and youtube. Spotify at some point too

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Hey! I haven't seen any Goblin Week announcement yet for this year, and I was just wondering if itstarts this week or next week? Thanks!

It's this week! It's now! I forgot

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3rd Voice: 38th Scene: Offer yourself

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3rd Voice: 34th Scene: Explain

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watching some 90s dragon ball z movies and ephemera tonight if you're into that

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200 pages long!! https://www.rice-boy.com

3rd Voice: 32nd Scene: Your feast

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Hi Evan, I recently saw a listing for something titled “Making Rice Boy” but the seller didn’t provide a picture and I can’t seem to find one anywhere. Is this a real thing? Is it different from the Art from Overside or Riceboy Sketchbook PDFs available on topatoco?

That's a real thing! But you can download a PDF of it for free on the rice boy index page - https://rice-boy.com/rb/

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oh and here's a video of me drawing mostly the whole thing

Gleaners, a print

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