I’ve attempted to write a FAQ a few times but they’ve always ended up not helpful or helpful but depressing. But due to a recent spike in questions I’ve decided to just go for it.
Besides this post, the FAQ also got it’s own permanent page.
Is Guy and Wayne a couple?
- No they’re just friends, if that’s a word you can use to describe their relationship. Frenemies?
Do Frank, Guy and Wayne live together, like are they roommates?
- This is unclear even to me, If a joke requires them to be roommates, then that’s what they are.
What’s Guy’s real name?
- I’m not sure, I haven’t asked.
Hello, I’m a writer and I need someone to draw a comic, I can’t pay right now, (maybe later if the comic sells) but It’ll be good practice and great exposure for you! are you interested?
- No, I got my own stories I would like to tell if I ever got the time. Also those reasons aren’t real.
Do you have any tips on how to start a webcomic?
- Just start it.
No, Really.
I don’t know how to make a website for my comic, can you help?
- Neither did I but then I Googled “comicpress” you should too.
How do you become a professional artist?
- By having people pay you to do art. You can be a professional artist at any skill level, as long as you make a living out of your craft, you’re by definition a “professional artist”.
Of course, the more skilled you are, the bigger the chance of someone paying you. but you need to market yourself, very few artist just gets “found”.
How long have you been drawing?
- I started for real around 2003, then around 2006 I decided it’s what I’d like to do with my life.
Do you exhibit at any conventions?
- I’d like to, I attended San Diego Comic Con in 2011, but I’ve yet to exhibit at any convention. Living in Sweden makes the logistics and expenses very overwhelming.
Some day!
How did you come up with Twogag?
- It kinda just evolved from a vacuum. I only knew what I didn’t want in the comic. I didn’t want Twogag to rely on pop culture references, I didn’t want any self insertion characters and I didn’t want it to be about videogames.
How do I become an artist?
- Draw.
How do I become a writer?
- Write.
I’d like to become better at drawing, got any tips?
- Everybody says this, but it’s the only way, man. Just draw, draw, draw, draw. Sacrifice your gaming, friend and movie time and draw some more.
But something every aspiring artist should ask themselves is; “do I actually like to draw, or do I just like the idea of drawing?”
I want to become a professional webcartoonist, got any tips?
- Love drawing, hate money.
If you meet the above criteria and do create a webcomic, market it. Don’t just post your pages or strips and expect readers to find it.
Do you write your comics beforehand or just free-ball it?
- I generally start out with a vague idea or concept and develop it either in my head or as I write it.
It’s a good idea to remove yourself from distractions such as the internet while doing this. I used to browse sites a lot with the excuse “I’m looking for inspiration.” but that has yet to work.
What software do you use?
- Adobe Photoshop.
What version of Photoshop do you use?
- It doesn’t matter.
What’s the best question you’ve been asked?
- This one.
Will you ever make a FAQ?
- I have a feeling the frequency of this question will subside, but yes.
I wonder if it simulates punches. I think there will be some punching. Or death rays.
My brain just sorta completely melted. Thank you.
Mind. Fucked.
Totally.Worth.It.
If I was a robot my head would’ve exploded right about now. Oh wait.. crap *BOOM*
well, i guess thats an experiment of a third party. it should show what happens when two sentient parties meet themselves of another reality thinking they are real and the other one are fake while both are truly fake and so start on equal conditions
If they exist, aren’t they both essentially real? Course, that may bug more along the lines of original as a thought process, but they’re still real.
So is this the universe with the mirror verse (strip 81), is there one for the other side of the door, and do the mirrorverses have their own simulated universes?
I was expecting there to just be a mirror. Reality simulation on the cheap !
So Frank is one of Frank’s experiments too? That clever bastard.
And now the two Guy’s fight…and it turns into a make out.
How big is the “room” anyway? lol
Soo… one version is going to have to kill the other?
If the “other” universe is “near” real time, it would suggest that it is slightly slower.
The Frank in panel 3 says the same thing as the one in panel 1, so the 3rd panel Frank is from the slower/simulated universe.
OTOH, they went through the door before saying it, which suggests that they are in fact later.
The sequence (until symmetry was broken) could be
Frank says line
They walk though door into simulation
Frank says line again
If that is the case, then the ones who entered the room are “real”, or at least in the faster universe.
The question is then why would Frank say the line twice.
“Near real time” does not indicate exactly how the simulated time relates to real time. It could be faster or slower and still be near. Also, the simulated universe does not necessarily have to mirror everything in the real universe 100%.
Frank sure does like trying to destroy the universe with paradoxes, doesn’t he? So does Frank, it seems…
The reality simulator was activated before Guy asked Frank what it was.
In ‘this’ reality, Frank told Guy what it was before they enter. However, in ‘that’ reality, they entered and then Frank told Guy what it was.
The difference being due to it being a reality simulator, and in any simulation, there is bound to be differences from what actually occurs, due to tiny uncertainties caused by unknown variables in the model’s initial state.
As to which is the real one, I’d guess it was ‘that’, unless ‘this’ simulator can simulate externally, which was a pivotal point in at least half a dozen holodeck-centric episodes of various Star Trek.
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My brain had to reboot after reading your idea and it’s a good and solid argument, BUT I’d say there’s a much easier proof of ‘this’ being the simulator namely: I ‘this’ part Guy shows interest towards the thing other then cynicism.
Nuf’ said, I WON! :D
Now, Guy…would you like the red pill, or the blue pill?
“I have a hunch that our universe is just an elaborate setup to some computer game.
Any day now we’re gonna be invaded by aliens, just so that some steroid infused space marine in a sci-fi battle armor can gonna save us all.”
That’s pretty much the whole premise of Yahtzee Croshaw’s “Mogworld,” only that’s Fantasy MMORPG and your take sounds more Sci-Fi FPS.
Those alternative selves do get annoying sometimes, especially when they scream in the night. I’ll have to build in better soundproofing.
An thus, the universe entered a time-spiral.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lF5ydCDczHA&feature=plcp check this shit out xD video about how god is really controlling us in a video game