When you don’t really tell that many people that your site exists or send out review copies of your work, you don’t expect your stuff to actually get, you know, REVIEWED. So imagine my surprise when i found out that a writer for “The Daily Star” – a newspaper published in Oneonta, New York - stumbled across my site back in November 2009 & wrote up his opinion of the first 14 or 15 pages that I had posted at the time:
I’m going to be honest from the start of this review, despite the fact that I almost never lie. I still don’t know what this strip is really about.
I’ve got the premise that it’s an abstract world where one “normal” person is friends with a slacker, and their adventures in the city.
What makes this comic interesting, so far, is that the main character would appear to be a bottle of sorts, with supporting characters being an alligator and cat. It’s interesting that the author is focusing on humanizing animals and other objects to show human traits and their natural oddities.
Returning to my train of thought, the only problem I have with this comic is the drawing. The rest of the comic is enjoyable. It has some decent humor, some good dialogue, and it even has an overall good vibe. But the quality of the artwork throws off the scent of awesomeness for this strip.
To begin, my main complaint with the drawing is the text. Mr. Seck, if you’re reading this, I strongly advise trying to make the text larger, so that we don’t have to zoom in to read it. It’s a simple change that would make your comic much better. On top of that, there is a much clustered feel to the comic, art wise, caused by the attention to only some details. This isn’t like the previous strip, where this was a contradiction. Rather, in this case the partial-detailing is in a way that supports the look of the strip. However, if there were a way to shift the balance toward detailed or minimalistic just a bit more, the quality of the strip would improve greatly. For only having some flaws with art and text, I give “Secktacular” 7 out of 10.
7 out of 10 for the first half of my first full-length comic / final project for my first year at the Center for Cartoon Studies ain’t bad! Thanks, Reviewer Guy! I shall never give up trying to improve!
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