Yes. I put 'Mozart' and 'Justin Bieber' in the same sentence. You can bring the stake and the fire with your angry mob set now. You can flame me, but my point is eternal! Mwahahahahahahahaha!
Also... A late Happy New Year to you all.
I'm annoyed I missed one.. two... well... a couple off updates. I don't know if it's because I have too much work - which is actually a good thing - or because my schedule is an organized mess.
So... well... Oh look! Kitty cats!
*Ninja Poof*
Also... A late Happy New Year to you all.
I'm annoyed I missed one.. two... well... a couple off updates. I don't know if it's because I have too much work - which is actually a good thing - or because my schedule is an organized mess.
So... well... Oh look! Kitty cats!
*Ninja Poof*
People are sensible to inconsistencies. Wait... Does that mean we all have OCD?
I suscribed this webcomic blog to a french contest at Révélation Blog where people got to vote for their favorite one. The prize was okay - something about being invited at the Angoulême Festival for the three winners - I didn't care to check the vague descriptions. It was more for the thrills of participating.
Oh wait! I forgot this. The three winners will be published by an actual publisher to highlight a new talent. Which is interesting too.
The contest was for everyone living in France, Belgium and Switzerland. The rules didn't say anything about the language though. Well... I just hope they didn't think the artists from those countries all do comic blogs in French by default. That would be a quite chauvinistic behaviour. I mean. Switzerland has actually four national languages with Swiss French, Schwitzer Tütsch, Italian and Rumantsch; and globally English is also common. So I guess they would accept entries that weren't in French. France is a pretty open minded country about languages. Well, I believe so.
My webcomic blog didn't pass the first round, which doesn't actually surprise me. Fairly speaking, my comics are for a niche. So no wonder they didn't charm the jury that chose the 30 entries that will be elected by popular vot...
Wait-wait-wait! Let me read the rules again. I think I just missread something.
...
No, I didn't. An actual jury decided beforehand the 30 webcomics blogs that are eligible for a popular vote contest. And then they will decide if the three popular ones are eligible to be the winners or not.
Wait. I have to read that last one again. Stupid ambiguous language...
Yeah. From the webcomic blogs that are the most popular, the jury will finally choose/select the three winners.
...
Just a second! This is like presenting a comic to a publisher the classic way with a popular vote used like a commission of readtesters, but for free and disguised as a contest. And people don't actually get to choose their favorite one. They are mostly forced to choose from a group of pre-chosen 30 ones.
They were 300 entries in total, which is of course a lot to choose from. Reading them all is a bit of work too. However every one of them have all their own personal readers and followers. Technically the people who already read them should have the possibility to defend them. It's fair. And from the 300 there are obviously a couple that are more popular and have more readers than the others. So what's the point of using a jury to choose the first 30 eligible ones and then get to a popular vote? It's like they didn't trust the people with their favorite webcomic blogs.
That said, from the 30 that were elected (near the middle of the homepage), there are bunch of pretty good ones with fair quality (while others are questionable). A little bit of déjà-vu though. They don't differ much from what I can find in comic bookstores. But I guess that's what the jury wanted.
However I would have wished to see the other ones that weren't selected. Out of curiosity. At least to see if there were other comics that would have interested me. But no. The Jury at Revelation Blog didn't do that. A pretty dick move on their behalf for not letting us know about the other entries.
Nonetheless this "contest" feels a bit like a scam, like the Oscars or Cannes Festival, where people could also vote from the nominees that were previously chosen by a jury (and possibly revalued afterwards too). Look at the recent movies that won an oscar. Don't you feel the choices were mostly unnatural from the real successful movies that should have won?
But say... Would I have had the same arguments, if my webcomic blog was chosen in the first round? Oh yes! Though I would be extremely surprised on the top of that. To a point I would have reconsidered my opinion about the French people and their tastes. Again because my comics are really not for common french people by a long stretch.
And I would have reaaaaaally been taken aback if I have won the contest. I would have gone to that Angoulême Festival dressed as Emma while wearing a tight corset to make amend about my biased and wrong views about the tastes of French people.
Yes. I would embarrass myself to that extent if I was proven wrong.
Good thing I was right! =P
So yeah. I just like the thrills of participating in a contest. And in my opinion a well thought contest is where even the loser feels he has gained something great from the experience.
But this one was a major disappointment on how it worked. I think I would have got the feeling I lost anyway even if I was a winner.
I suscribed this webcomic blog to a french contest at Révélation Blog where people got to vote for their favorite one. The prize was okay - something about being invited at the Angoulême Festival for the three winners - I didn't care to check the vague descriptions. It was more for the thrills of participating.
Oh wait! I forgot this. The three winners will be published by an actual publisher to highlight a new talent. Which is interesting too.
The contest was for everyone living in France, Belgium and Switzerland. The rules didn't say anything about the language though. Well... I just hope they didn't think the artists from those countries all do comic blogs in French by default. That would be a quite chauvinistic behaviour. I mean. Switzerland has actually four national languages with Swiss French, Schwitzer Tütsch, Italian and Rumantsch; and globally English is also common. So I guess they would accept entries that weren't in French. France is a pretty open minded country about languages. Well, I believe so.
My webcomic blog didn't pass the first round, which doesn't actually surprise me. Fairly speaking, my comics are for a niche. So no wonder they didn't charm the jury that chose the 30 entries that will be elected by popular vot...
Wait-wait-wait! Let me read the rules again. I think I just missread something.
...
No, I didn't. An actual jury decided beforehand the 30 webcomics blogs that are eligible for a popular vote contest. And then they will decide if the three popular ones are eligible to be the winners or not.
Wait. I have to read that last one again. Stupid ambiguous language...
Yeah. From the webcomic blogs that are the most popular, the jury will finally choose/select the three winners.
...
Just a second! This is like presenting a comic to a publisher the classic way with a popular vote used like a commission of readtesters, but for free and disguised as a contest. And people don't actually get to choose their favorite one. They are mostly forced to choose from a group of pre-chosen 30 ones.
They were 300 entries in total, which is of course a lot to choose from. Reading them all is a bit of work too. However every one of them have all their own personal readers and followers. Technically the people who already read them should have the possibility to defend them. It's fair. And from the 300 there are obviously a couple that are more popular and have more readers than the others. So what's the point of using a jury to choose the first 30 eligible ones and then get to a popular vote? It's like they didn't trust the people with their favorite webcomic blogs.
That said, from the 30 that were elected (near the middle of the homepage), there are bunch of pretty good ones with fair quality (while others are questionable). A little bit of déjà-vu though. They don't differ much from what I can find in comic bookstores. But I guess that's what the jury wanted.
However I would have wished to see the other ones that weren't selected. Out of curiosity. At least to see if there were other comics that would have interested me. But no. The Jury at Revelation Blog didn't do that. A pretty dick move on their behalf for not letting us know about the other entries.
Nonetheless this "contest" feels a bit like a scam, like the Oscars or Cannes Festival, where people could also vote from the nominees that were previously chosen by a jury (and possibly revalued afterwards too). Look at the recent movies that won an oscar. Don't you feel the choices were mostly unnatural from the real successful movies that should have won?
But say... Would I have had the same arguments, if my webcomic blog was chosen in the first round? Oh yes! Though I would be extremely surprised on the top of that. To a point I would have reconsidered my opinion about the French people and their tastes. Again because my comics are really not for common french people by a long stretch.
And I would have reaaaaaally been taken aback if I have won the contest. I would have gone to that Angoulême Festival dressed as Emma while wearing a tight corset to make amend about my biased and wrong views about the tastes of French people.
Yes. I would embarrass myself to that extent if I was proven wrong.
Good thing I was right! =P
So yeah. I just like the thrills of participating in a contest. And in my opinion a well thought contest is where even the loser feels he has gained something great from the experience.
But this one was a major disappointment on how it worked. I think I would have got the feeling I lost anyway even if I was a winner.
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