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Dear mods: I'm still hopelessly confused as to the difference between fanart and fan comics, and which I am allowed to post without a legality scan. Please help!
I'm irregularly drawing a bunch of "response" comics lately, as practice art for a webcomic I am also working on which has not yet officially started. (And boy does my art need practice.) Since they're mostly responses to comics news I read here, I thought I'd share.
I can't find the pages from the Rainbow Lantern stuff that was posted here a while ago, but this was one of the things I drew in reply to the ghastly costume and ring choices for the formerly-known-as-green Lanterns of Earth:

More recent and thus more relevant, my (wheelchair-using geeky redheaded) response to the Barbara Gordon-Batgirl announcements:

I drew that partly so I didn't have to write a whole flipping essay again on why it's not that I mind Babs getting her legs back, it's that I mind the idea that she would then walk away from being Oracle (literally) and give up twenty years of hard work. Nobody expects Dick to be Robin again, do they?
These are both all-digital Wacom messes. I can't decide if my scanned pencils are better or worse than straight digital work, but either way my inking sucks (which is why I experimented with not doing any on the Babs piece). Also, did both in a bit of a rush hoping to post them while they were still fresh (and didn't get the GL one up in a timely fashion because my server horked).
"Gutters" is a webcomic doing much the same thing as I'm doing, but they do it a lot better: they do comics MWF, featuring a lot of different artists, about what's going on in the comics industry. Today's is their response to the Batgirl business, and it's good too.

I'm irregularly drawing a bunch of "response" comics lately, as practice art for a webcomic I am also working on which has not yet officially started. (And boy does my art need practice.) Since they're mostly responses to comics news I read here, I thought I'd share.
I can't find the pages from the Rainbow Lantern stuff that was posted here a while ago, but this was one of the things I drew in reply to the ghastly costume and ring choices for the formerly-known-as-green Lanterns of Earth:

More recent and thus more relevant, my (wheelchair-using geeky redheaded) response to the Barbara Gordon-Batgirl announcements:

I drew that partly so I didn't have to write a whole flipping essay again on why it's not that I mind Babs getting her legs back, it's that I mind the idea that she would then walk away from being Oracle (literally) and give up twenty years of hard work. Nobody expects Dick to be Robin again, do they?
These are both all-digital Wacom messes. I can't decide if my scanned pencils are better or worse than straight digital work, but either way my inking sucks (which is why I experimented with not doing any on the Babs piece). Also, did both in a bit of a rush hoping to post them while they were still fresh (and didn't get the GL one up in a timely fashion because my server horked).
"Gutters" is a webcomic doing much the same thing as I'm doing, but they do it a lot better: they do comics MWF, featuring a lot of different artists, about what's going on in the comics industry. Today's is their response to the Batgirl business, and it's good too.

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Date: 2011-06-09 02:17 am (UTC)that said... hee hee love that last panel with Oracle
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Date: 2011-06-09 03:11 am (UTC)Also, are those bunny slippers on Barbara's feet?
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Date: 2011-06-09 04:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-06-09 04:18 am (UTC)And holy asscrack, she's been in a chair since 1988?? I was fucking four when that happened. And Spidey and MJ got married before I was born. What the fuck is with comics changing events that happened before most of their readers where even there to read comics?
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Date: 2011-06-09 03:57 pm (UTC)Seriously, all it would take would be a new movie or cartoon in which there was a Cass Cain Batgirl or a Stephanie Brown Batgirl and the mass majority of people would think that Batgirl was always blonde/asian.
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Date: 2011-06-09 09:34 pm (UTC)I don't like the idea of adaptations affecting the source medium so much, either -- it comes off a bit tail-wagging-the-dog -- but that's from my perspective as a fan. I can see the logic behind it to someone whose focus is the bottom line.
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Date: 2011-06-10 02:42 am (UTC).
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Date: 2011-06-09 04:41 am (UTC)Like, at all.
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Date: 2011-06-09 04:56 am (UTC)Should have been.
Date: 2011-06-09 05:24 am (UTC)Okay, technically John's first choice was avarice, but Hal was all "Trust me John, you don't want that."
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Date: 2011-06-09 05:31 am (UTC)Make that two of us!
Date: 2011-06-09 05:27 am (UTC)I'd often wondered the same thing, as I'd recently done a trading card design for a legit (if lesser known) comic that I was considering putting up here (once the colouring was done), as well as working on an indy comic that might need some pimpage, if the work passes muster!
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Date: 2011-06-09 07:42 am (UTC)Though, not-a-mod. They could say different.
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Date: 2011-06-09 10:17 pm (UTC)Re: Make that two of us!
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Date: 2011-06-09 08:32 am (UTC)I can't believe I missed the webcomic the-gutters.com. I now must explore it. Thank you so much for posting.
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Date: 2011-06-09 11:24 am (UTC)Fanart by our definition is stuff like pin-ups or single images rather than sequenced panels.
Hope this clarifies.
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Date: 2011-06-09 10:20 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-06-09 12:53 pm (UTC)It reminds me of this kid I met at Boston comic con who was in a wheel chair who was in an awesome full Nightwing costume his dad made for him from scratch. That picture.... I know I have it buried somewhere here!
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Date: 2011-06-09 03:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-06-10 12:28 am (UTC)Aw crap I should have asked people if they were going on s_d.
I was taking pictures with him, in my Marvel Civil War shirt. His dad made the whole costume out of some old elastic cloth and garden gloves. So cool.
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Date: 2011-06-20 09:08 am (UTC)And that Gutters comics was... Wow!