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Now that we have the gallery rolling with contests and regular news features, it's time to give some attention to the Comics and Cartoons forum, and to that effect I made a poll here to gauge the community's interest. As a first step, my intention is to clean it up of threads that shouldn't be there, including self-promotion topics and "what's your favorite Marvel character" threads (more suitable for the Fan Art forum). I think a self-promotion sticky would be a neater way of allowing people to discuss their personal comic projects without flooding the board, and that's part of the second step – getting interesting activity going on there as well as making it easier to find. I know it's pretty much hidden, but we can't do anything about the forums' organization at this point (don't go and think dA doesn't care about that issue, though: fixes and additions are done in a certain order for good reasons).
Using the forum is completely optional of course, but those of you who are interested can greatly help by poking around the forum during the next few days and sending opinions and suggestions for its improvement



I have come to something of a decision concerning DDs. I have been receiving suggestions, many of which I did feature, for pieces that though awesome, could have been equally posted under Digital Art or Traditional Art. For instance:

These are pieces whose contents we may (or may not) associate with comics and cartoons, but not done in any format that defines this medium.
Yet this can be defined very succinctly:
Comic page or strip= Sequential art
Cartoon= A single frame telling a self-contained story or conveying a commentary on a specific subject – NOT simply a cartoony-looking image or an image of cartoon characters.
Also fitting specifically under Comics would be pieces that make use of symbols (like speedlines), devices (like thought bubbles) or a rendering (certain styles of inking) that are very specific to comics.
There isn't much point curating a Comics and Cartoons gallery if I'm not emphasizing what makes this medium different from general illustration. Therefore, I prefer not to feature such images anymore, at least not in the proportions I have been. I want to bring attention to skills in sequential art and in cartooning, as well as character design and stylization. Also, there are many Marvel and DC professionals posting in this gallery, and though their work about our favorite superheroes is mindblowing, I'm tired of featuring mainstream characters done in mainstream styles, no matter how much I may love these styles myself. Unless they're revisited in a truly novel way (like this watercolor), I'm no longer featuring them.
I hope you understand what I'm trying to do here and that I can count on you to bring fresh new work to my attention Of course it's arbitrary, but that's why it's so good to have 2 GMs. ^Thiefoworld has his own personal guidelines and you can read all about them here. As for me, you can get a feel for what strikes my fancy by browsing this collection of DDs I gave.


Daily Deviations for August
Comic Resources Index
C&C Weekly #15
Adam Hughes say:
C&C Ask the Pros– August



CEA Update; Invalid "Art Theft Reports"- Why?
deviantWORLD Contest
Celebrating Deviousness: Sept 2009



Please note that the guidelines for every moderator may vary, but the ones that are universal for the both of us are as follows:

Make sure the deviant hasn't received a DD in the past three months.
Send your note including a thumb to the suggested deviation and a brief explanation of why you think it should be featured.
Send your note to just one GM at the time.
We can only feature artwork from Comics & Cartoons, please suggest Fanart, Anime, Anthro or any other work pertaining to another gallery to the proper GM, you can see the complete list here



Your Comics & Cartoons Gallery Moderators:

^Cedarseed cedarseed@volunteers.deviantart.com
^Thiefoworld thiefoworld@volunteers.deviantart.com