Patrick Farley is trying to return to web comics, and this is great news! Patrick Farley is one of the best web comics creators there’s ever been. Few web comics ever explore the potentials of the medium. Sure, some good stories are being told, but few artists have embraced the Web as a unique medium with new creative possibilities. Instead, the majority of web comics are pretty much print comics that use the Web as a delivery system. It can be so much more than that, though, as Scott McCloud showed in Reinventing Comics and with his Infinite Canvas. Patrick Farley, on the other hand, embraced the medium to its fullest, creating innovative works that could only be experienced on the Web. Check out The Spiders, for example. Even the act of scrolling contributes to the narrative, instead of being an annoyance like it often is.
Farley started strong and his work just kept getting better and better. Unfortunately, his day job curtailed creative output. Now he’s taking steps to correct that, which I wholeheartedly endorse! Using Kickstarter, a platform that allows “us regular folk” to become patrons of the arts, he’s asking for a $2 donation. When donations reach $6,000 he’ll quit his day job and go back to creating web comics full-time. Just read the comics he already has online for free. Personally, I’ve gotten way more than $2 worth of entertainment from Patrick Farley, and will happily pay for his return! If the donations don’t reach $6,000, he doesn’t quit and you don’t have to pay. But that would be a tragedy, so go pledge $2 right now to make sure it doesn’t happen!
Best of luck, Patrick! I hope this works! I also hope I can follow in your footsteps, quit my day job and work on Callithump! full time. I know all too well how that day job stifles all creativity.
