Comics without Pictures, Take Two
November 2nd, 2009
The deadline is coming up fast, but if anyone is interested, here’s a challenge to create a text-only comic (complete with prize) which some of you may want to take up.
As before, I’m sure the whole question of what even qualifies as a “picture” will come up, but I’m happy to let others decide that.
Posted in Experimental Comics
March 3, 2021
Rebecca Borgstrom (now Jenna Moran) used to call her story blog “Hitherby Dragons” (http://imago.hitherby.com/) “a webcomic without pictures”. I suspect it doesn’t fit your definitions, but I felt like taking this opportunity to recommend it to people anyway. It’s unfinished, but then so is Beanworld. We’re finally getting new Beanworld after a decade and a half; I live in hope that someday we’ll get a conclusion to Hitherby.
(And yes, I do mean to imply that people who like Beanworld should check out Hitherby Dragons.)
[…] with nothing, because nothing is free.” Scott McCloud gets the least word where he shared a text only comic contest. By the time you read this, the contest will be closed to entries but maybe we’ll see […]
Hey Scott, thanks for mentioning our challenge. I’ve posted all the pictureless comic submissions here: http://www.docpop.org/2009/11/06/pictureless-comics-part-2.html