BESC Comic Contest 2008

dsojourn · 08-13-2008

Just chiming in here, but...10 pages? I'm not knocking anything about the opportunities the contest presents, and I fully understand and appreciate all the work that has to go into reading and judging the multitude of content contained within the various entries (almost 20 last year). And it was't exactly easy writing an entire comic story last year.

But there's just not much one can do with ten pages, at least in terms of what the contest is supposed to be judging and "rewarding". Case in point, last year's contest was supposed to be scripts for twenty pages. Other then perhaps "Spore", which was an EXTREMELY spartan and simple set of scenes, I don't think any of the the other entries became less then 30, and Great Dragon's made it up to 50 (although it can be argued that 30 pages could have been cut or edited without much harm being done).

And I'm not just saying this because I tend to be verbose, lol, I know my own weaknesses. Ten pages is enough for a scene, or perhaps the set up for the first chapter of an ONGOING story the BESC could pick up, but how do you judge set up? If that were the criterion, 2/3 of the comics from last year's contest would be cut for having no Process, let alone plot. Or, on the flip side, it seems to defeat the purpose of the contest to be asking "just design the single best/hawtest scene you can, and plot and development be darned".

I seem to recall a storm of accusations last year about how the contest winners were not selected via the supposed qualifications for judging listed that I'd rather not see repeated. TL:dR, is what you're looking for simply the best concept, to then be flushed out as a full comic once the judges select that set up with the most potential, or is this more about "design the winning wank-scene for instant gratification".

Expansionist · 08-13-2008

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Originally Posted by dsojourn

Just chiming in here, but...10 pages? I'm not knocking anything about the opportunities the contest presents, and I fully understand and appreciate all the work that has to go into reading and judging the multitude of content contained within the various entries (almost 20 last year). And it was't exactly easy writing an entire comic story last year.

The entry says "increments" of 10 pages. As far as I'm aware that means the entries should be 10, or 20, or 30, and so on. It definitely does not mean a limit of 10 pages.

dsojourn · 08-14-2008

Ah, well if that's true then good point, and well made. It was quite late and now I shall feel appropriately like a moron for quite some time. Cheers.

Lurking Guy · 08-14-2008

I'm going to take a guess and assume that the comic would have to be fappan' material for you guys and not actually a good comic with BE included. *COUGHmanyuuhikenchoCOUGH*

08-13-2008	#1
dsojourn Frequent Poster Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 432	Re: BESC Comic Contest 2008 Just chiming in here, but...10 pages? I'm not knocking anything about the opportunities the contest presents, and I fully understand and appreciate all the work that has to go into reading and judging the multitude of content contained within the various entries (almost 20 last year). And it was't exactly easy writing an entire comic story last year. But there's just not much one can do with ten pages, at least in terms of what the contest is supposed to be judging and "rewarding". Case in point, last year's contest was supposed to be scripts for twenty pages. Other then perhaps "Spore", which was an EXTREMELY spartan and simple set of scenes, I don't think any of the the other entries became less then 30, and Great Dragon's made it up to 50 (although it can be argued that 30 pages could have been cut or edited without much harm being done). And I'm not just saying this because I tend to be verbose, lol, I know my own weaknesses. Ten pages is enough for a scene, or perhaps the set up for the first chapter of an ONGOING story the BESC could pick up, but how do you judge set up? If that were the criterion, 2/3 of the comics from last year's contest would be cut for having no Process, let alone plot. Or, on the flip side, it seems to defeat the purpose of the contest to be asking "just design the single best/hawtest scene you can, and plot and development be darned". I seem to recall a storm of accusations last year about how the contest winners were not selected via the supposed qualifications for judging listed that I'd rather not see repeated. TL:dR, is what you're looking for simply the best concept, to then be flushed out as a full comic once the judges select that set up with the most potential, or is this more about "design the winning wank-scene for instant gratification".

08-14-2008	#3
dsojourn Frequent Poster Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 432	Re: BESC Comic Contest 2008 Ah, well if that's true then good point, and well made. It was quite late and now I shall feel appropriately like a moron for quite some time. Cheers.

08-14-2008	#4
Lurking Guy Lurking Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 197	Re: BESC Comic Contest 2008 I'm going to take a guess and assume that the comic would have to be fappan' material for you guys and not actually a good comic with BE included. COUGHmanyuuhikenchoCOUGH