Ad Astra!

[The Thing]

I've recently gotten a nice free art program that lets people do OOTS style comics fairly easily once they get the hang of it.

So after a long time I may see about doing a traveller based stick figure comic called "Ad Astra!"

The thing is I would have to have a place to post it, and I was wondering if I could post it here.

I'm planning to make the strip just a hair more mature that OOTS as traveller players tend to be a little older.

For instance, the first issue, which I have planner out, will have a refference to, but definitely NOT a depiction of, "Hiver ⌧"...

So if I can post it here I may get cracking on learning to use the program to do it.

 

[deniable]

Hiver ⌧: it's all about "manipulation."

More comics are a good thing.

 

[The Thing]

Hiver ⌧: it's all about "manipulation."

More comics are a good thing.

Let's just say I've got a unique use for it...

 

[ravells]

Best of luck with it, but if you are concerned about keeping the copyright to your work, do check with Hunter first. I believe that there is a rule that if you post anything here you automatically agree for copyright to be transferred to Hunter.

 

[The Thing]

Here's my very first stick figure character, done with inkscape a very short time after I got it.

I gave him a nose and eyebrows unlike a lot of stickfigures and decided he was a generic engineer/tech type guy, hence the utility bet and tool vest.

Let me know what you really think, honest feedback helps. I'm not happy with the mouth really, I have yet t learn how to do the smooth semicircles needed to make a smooth mouth like other stickfigs have. I'm working on it.

 

[Icosahedron]

Best of luck with it, but if you are concerned about keeping the copyright to your work, do check with Hunter first. I believe that there is a rule that if you post anything here you automatically agree for copyright to be transferred to Hunter.

The hell you do?
That small print is carefully hidden away. I don't mind people using stuff I post for personal use - otherwise I wouldn't post it - but I don't intend to give away my copyright! Where is that little gem hidden?
I'm pretty sure there will be more people surprised by this Ravellation (sorry, I just had to)
One of the guys (is it Far Trader?) even has something like my standpoint in his signature.

 

[The Thing]

The hell you do?
That small print is carefully hidden away. I don't mind people using stuff I post for personal use - otherwise I wouldn't post it - but I don't intend to give away my copyright! Where is that little gem hidden?
I'm pretty sure there will be more people surprised by this Ravellation (sorry, I just had to)

(Pulls pin on F-9 fragmentation grenade. Throws it at icosahedron.) Sorry, I had just had to. :rofl:

 

[far-trader]

Yep, that'd probably be me you're thinking of, though I've seen others with similar.

IIRC the issue when raised was clarified by Hunter to mean that he has copyright on the whole of the site to protect what is actually his and licensed since it will come up in postings, sometimes copied verbatim. Any original material presented here is also protected by his copyright of the board in toto but you retain your rights to use your original material without encumbrance.

I think he might have mentioned something about being interested in a first publication rights offer if something you post here catches his attention as worthy.

Naturally he's also covering his ass, rightly so, in the case of, what's the term, like mutually independent discovery, so that if you happen to post something that bears a spooky resemblance to something he later publishes without your input you can't claim it's your work. If you know what I mean, I'm not firing on all cylinders at the moment

 

[Icosahedron]

No problem if he's just protecting his own rights.

First publication offer? After some of the ordering complaints I've seen on this site? Well...

I'm happy just as long as something he (or anyone else) later publishes doesn't bear a spooky resemblance to something I've posted...

Not that I think anyone here would do that, and it's unlikely that anything I post would be worthy of publication anyway, it's just I'd figured that things I post here could be used to prove my copyright in the event, rather than giving it automatically to someone else, and Ravell's post hit my fair play nerve.