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ZeroCartin
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Costa Rica2390 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-10-27 00:48:48
October 26 2009 23:27 GMT
#1
:D Im happy to say a costarican e-newspaper decided to interview me and my friend Leo for making our Comicnoobs site Its my first interview of this sort, so im really excited about it ^_^

Heres the link, too bad its in spanish: http://www.vueltaenu.co.cr/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11351&Itemid=1183

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Leo (left) and me

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The site :D

EDIT: EsX_Raptor decided to transalte it! :D Heres the interview


+ Show Spoiler +

Comicnoobs: Fun on the line

Everytime Leo Roque and Felipe Cartin met each other on messenger, it wasn't to chat, but to have a battle... with drawings.

"We drew ourselves and put little faces, at the end we always had a duel", says Cartin.

"Everything was a response attacking the drawing Felipe made. That's when I said 'we're losing our time, let's publish this so that someone else can see it'", recalls Leo.

That's how on April of this year, the idea of making a webcomic in English called Comicnoobs was born.

This pair of 25 year old guys are the theme of our weekly entry "The + bugs of the web", where the illustrator Monfa and the radio line Radio Malpais were once before.

Newbies, so what?

They didn't know how to make comics but decided that they would do this project anyways, that's why they called it Comicnoobs, because the term "newbie" in English means beginner. But that didn't hinder them from investigating and be on par of what's happening in the field of their interest.

"We always were looking for references of other comics so that we wouldn't repeat the same old jokes. There are a lot of people that criticize movies or videogames that just came out, thus we tried to avoid those topics or tackling them from another point of view", says Felipe.

Furthermore, every week they took two comics made by others to analize them: "we note what we didn't like, what worked, if its the art or the character's expression", says Leo.

Both of them have internet experience. Roque has developed web pages before, that's what made them say "we can start now with the website and do whatever we want", while some time before, Felipe had a game project that was being developed "with people online where we displayed updates", recalls the young man.

Very exaggerated

The guys guarantee that in their creation, their characters and situations "are ourselves exaggerated to the limit, if we didn't have the hinderances of society", explains Leo.

While Felipe adds that every story that is told there have reference with their real lives.

These cerators make and want to have at least a story per week, the process lasts around four to five hours and they meet in person to plan it.

Ideas come from both of them. Leo works on the script and Felipe with the drawings, however Leo sometimes works on them too.

The guys confirm that the internet surfers can find fun and a forum on their website: "so that they can ask us why did we take too long (publishing another comic)", says Leo jokingly.

The interatcion with the public is very important for these guys as they can take constructive criticism from these people to improve on their comics.

In English

The sketches that these guys make are in English, they made this decition until after they analized they people they wanted to target.

"The entity in which we move are forums, videogame websites, and comics which are written in this language. We wanted to target a more wide audiencem if we focused only in Costa Rica our jokes would be only from here and those who read them from the outside world wouldn't understand them", explains Leo.

Felipe also shows confidence that on doing this they would target people from Europe, the U.S. and Japan, just to give out a couple examples.

The characters that appear on the comics are the same throughout, and there's always a trama behind them, but that doesn't neccessarily imply that you have to read them in series to understand them individually.

Win, win

Leo and Felipe work full time and without a doubt, one of their main concerns that they have for their comic is finding the time needed to develop them.

Even after having this in mind they still make plans because they want their website to grow and above all keep making a comic per week. "It's not that we just want to gain publicity and money with our comic, what motivates us is our creation", confirms Leo.

These guys have clear in mind that they still are on a learning process. "Sometimes we want to make two jokes and blend them, but they were ununderstandable", recalls Felipe, that's why the feedback they've gotten from the community has been very useful.

But that's only if they find good people to criticize them as their goal is to improve. With time they have learned that the more easy the idea is, the easier it is to develop it. Their stories are fed by daily life routine.

In the future, this pair of young guys hope that their website will start to pay them off their time and dedication, in other words, some earnings.

They have also started to think on developing products with their comic characters on them and have evaluated the possibility of even making a videogame, but that will only come with time.

In the meantime they just limit themselves to telling others: "we decided to launch and promote ourselves so that others can have a chance to do the same thing", says Leo.


*****
"My sister is on vacation in Costa Rica right now. I hope she stays a while because she's a miserable cunt." -pubbanana
ilovezil
Profile Blog Joined August 2006
United States4143 Posts
October 26 2009 23:29 GMT
#2
Congratulations!
iSiN
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States1075 Posts
October 26 2009 23:30 GMT
#3
Whoa congrats. Don't get too nervous and just answer truthfully just say what comes to mind.
Grouty @HoN/PCKJ <--<333 || Jaedong Fan Cafe GFX
BuGzlToOnl
Profile Blog Joined November 2006
United States5918 Posts
October 26 2009 23:30 GMT
#4
If you want to make God laugh, tell Him your plans.
Heyoka
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Katowice25012 Posts
October 26 2009 23:36 GMT
#5
Congrats!
@RealHeyoka | ESL / DreamHack StarCraft Lead
ZeroCartin
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Costa Rica2390 Posts
October 26 2009 23:38 GMT
#6
On October 27 2009 08:30 iSiN wrote:
Whoa congrats. Don't get too nervous and just answer truthfully just say what comes to mind.

hah, i got nervous, but everything came out smoothly :D
"My sister is on vacation in Costa Rica right now. I hope she stays a while because she's a miserable cunt." -pubbanana
Saracen
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States5139 Posts
October 26 2009 23:45 GMT
#7
Congratulations! I'm sad to say I sort of forgot some of the things you taught me, but thanks anyways! You've helped me a lot!
ZeroCartin
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Costa Rica2390 Posts
October 26 2009 23:46 GMT
#8
On October 27 2009 08:45 Saracen wrote:
Congratulations! I'm sad to say I sort of forgot some of the things you taught me, but thanks anyways! You've helped me a lot!

lmao :D im here for whenever u need help, so dont hesitate on pming me or msn ^^
"My sister is on vacation in Costa Rica right now. I hope she stays a while because she's a miserable cunt." -pubbanana
Spartan
Profile Blog Joined July 2005
United States2030 Posts
October 27 2009 00:05 GMT
#9
Congrats, man! I hope you guys continue to grow.
# http://nkspartan.com (web engineer)
# TL member since July 2005; CEO of Vile Gaming; President of Team Vile
andiCR
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Costa Rica2273 Posts
October 27 2009 00:08 GMT
#10
Congrats brothaaa! :D
Nightmare1795 wrote: I played a guy in bronze who said he was Japanese. That was the only game I ever dropped a nuke, which was purely coincidental.
EsX_Raptor
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States2801 Posts
October 27 2009 00:42 GMT
#11
I decided to translate this:

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Comicnoobs: Fun on the line

Everytime Leo Roque and Felipe Cartin met each other on messenger, it wasn't to chat, but to have a battle... with drawings.

"We drew ourselves and put little faces, at the end we always had a duel", says Cartin.

"Everything was a response attacking the drawing Felipe made. That's when I said 'we're losing our time, let's publish this so that someone else can see it'", recalls Leo.

That's how on April of this year, the idea of making a webcomic in English called Comicnoobs was born.

This pair of 25 year old guys are the theme of our weekly entry "The + bugs of the web", where the illustrator Monfa and the radio line Radio Malpais were once before.

Newbies, so what?

They didn't know how to make comics but decided that they would do this project anyways, that's why they called it Comicnoobs, because the term "newbie" in English means beginner. But that didn't hinder them from investigating and be on par of what's happening in the field of their interest.

"We always were looking for references of other comics so that we wouldn't repeat the same old jokes. There are a lot of people that criticize movies or videogames that just came out, thus we tried to avoid those topics or tackling them from another point of view", says Felipe.

Furthermore, every week they took two comics made by others to analize them: "we note what we didn't like, what worked, if its the art or the character's expression", says Leo.

Both of them have internet experience. Roque has developed web pages before, that's what made them say "we can start now with the website and do whatever we want", while some time before, Felipe had a game project that was being developed "with people online where we displayed updates", recalls the young man.

Very exaggerated

The guys guarantee that in their creation, their characters and situations "are ourselves exaggerated to the limit, if we didn't have the hinderances of society", explains Leo.

While Felipe adds that every story that is told there have reference with their real lives.

These cerators make and want to have at least a story per week, the process lasts around four to five hours and they meet in person to plan it.

Ideas come from both of them. Leo works on the script and Felipe with the drawings, however Leo sometimes works on them too.

The guys confirm that the internet surfers can find fun and a forum on their website: "so that they can ask us why did we take too long (publishing another comic)", says Leo jokingly.

The interatcion with the public is very important for these guys as they can take constructive criticism from these people to improve on their comics.

In English

The sketches that these guys make are in English, they made this decition until after they analized they people they wanted to target.

"The entity in which we move are forums, videogame websites, and comics which are written in this language. We wanted to target a more wide audiencem if we focused only in Costa Rica our jokes would be only from here and those who read them from the outside world wouldn't understand them", explains Leo.

Felipe also shows confidence that on doing this they would target people from Europe, the U.S. and Japan, just to give out a couple examples.

The characters that appear on the comics are the same throughout, and there's always a trama behind them, but that doesn't neccessarily imply that you have to read them in series to understand them individually.

Win, win

Leo and Felipe work full time and without a doubt, one of their main concerns that they have for their comic is finding the time needed to develop them.

Even after having this in mind they still make plans because they want their website to grow and above all keep making a comic per week. "It's not that we just want to gain publicity and money with our comic, what motivates us is our creation", confirms Leo.

These guys have clear in mind that they still are on a learning process. "Sometimes we want to make two jokes and blend them, but they were ununderstandable", recalls Felipe, that's why the feedback they've gotten from the community has been very useful.

But that's only if they find good people to criticize them as their goal is to improve. With time they have learned that the more easy the idea is, the easier it is to develop it. Their stories are fed by daily life routine.

In the future, this pair of young guys hope that their website will start to pay them off their time and dedication, in other words, some earnings.

They have also started to think on developing products with their comic characters on them and have evaluated the possibility of even making a videogame, but that will only come with time.

In the meantime they just limit themselves to telling others: "we decided to launch and promote ourselves so that others can have a chance to do the same thing", says Leo.
ZeroCartin
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Costa Rica2390 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-10-27 00:45:52
October 27 2009 00:45 GMT
#12
On October 27 2009 09:42 EsX_Raptor wrote:
+ Show Spoiler +
I decided to translate this:

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Comicnoobs: Fun on the line

Everytime Leo Roque and Felipe Cartin met each other on messenger, it wasn't to chat, but to have a battle... with drawings.

"We drew ourselves and put little faces, at the end we always had a duel", says Cartin.

"Everything was a response attacking the drawing Felipe made. That's when I said 'we're losing our time, let's publish this so that someone else can see it'", recalls Leo.

That's how on April of this year, the idea of making a webcomic in English called Comicnoobs was born.

This pair of 25 year old guys are the theme of our weekly entry "The + bugs of the web", where the illustrator Monfa and the radio line Radio Malpais were once before.

Newbies, so what?

They didn't know how to make comics but decided that they would do this project anyways, that's why they called it Comicnoobs, because the term "newbie" in English means beginner. But that didn't hinder them from investigating and be on par of what's happening in the field of their interest.

"We always were looking for references of other comics so that we wouldn't repeat the same old jokes. There are a lot of people that criticize movies or videogames that just came out, thus we tried to avoid those topics or tackling them from another point of view", says Felipe.

Furthermore, every week they took two comics made by others to analize them: "we note what we didn't like, what worked, if its the art or the character's expression", says Leo.

Both of them have internet experience. Roque has developed web pages before, that's what made them say "we can start now with the website and do whatever we want", while some time before, Felipe had a game project that was being developed "with people online where we displayed updates", recalls the young man.

Very exaggerated

The guys guarantee that in their creation, their characters and situations "are ourselves exaggerated to the limit, if we didn't have the hinderances of society", explains Leo.

While Felipe adds that every story that is told there have reference with their real lives.

These cerators make and want to have at least a story per week, the process lasts around four to five hours and they meet in person to plan it.

Ideas come from both of them. Leo works on the script and Felipe with the drawings, however Leo sometimes works on them too.

The guys confirm that the internet surfers can find fun and a forum on their website: "so that they can ask us why did we take too long (publishing another comic)", says Leo jokingly.

The interatcion with the public is very important for these guys as they can take constructive criticism from these people to improve on their comics.

In English

The sketches that these guys make are in English, they made this decition until after they analized they people they wanted to target.

"The entity in which we move are forums, videogame websites, and comics which are written in this language. We wanted to target a more wide audiencem if we focused only in Costa Rica our jokes would be only from here and those who read them from the outside world wouldn't understand them", explains Leo.

Felipe also shows confidence that on doing this they would target people from Europe, the U.S. and Japan, just to give out a couple examples.

The characters that appear on the comics are the same throughout, and there's always a trama behind them, but that doesn't neccessarily imply that you have to read them in series to understand them individually.

Win, win

Leo and Felipe work full time and without a doubt, one of their main concerns that they have for their comic is finding the time needed to develop them.

Even after having this in mind they still make plans because they want their website to grow and above all keep making a comic per week. "It's not that we just want to gain publicity and money with our comic, what motivates us is our creation", confirms Leo.

These guys have clear in mind that they still are on a learning process. "Sometimes we want to make two jokes and blend them, but they were ununderstandable", recalls Felipe, that's why the feedback they've gotten from the community has been very useful.

But that's only if they find good people to criticize them as their goal is to improve. With time they have learned that the more easy the idea is, the easier it is to develop it. Their stories are fed by daily life routine.

In the future, this pair of young guys hope that their website will start to pay them off their time and dedication, in other words, some earnings.

They have also started to think on developing products with their comic characters on them and have evaluated the possibility of even making a videogame, but that will only come with time.

In the meantime they just limit themselves to telling others: "we decided to launch and promote ourselves so that others can have a chance to do the same thing", says Leo.


Dood, u fkn rock :D THANKS
"My sister is on vacation in Costa Rica right now. I hope she stays a while because she's a miserable cunt." -pubbanana
Necosarius
Profile Blog Joined September 2009
Sweden4042 Posts
October 27 2009 00:58 GMT
#13
Congrats I like your comics btw
Disregard
Profile Blog Joined March 2007
China10252 Posts
October 27 2009 01:06 GMT
#14
On October 27 2009 08:30 BuGzlToOnl wrote:


"If I had to take a drug in order to be free, I'm screwed. Freedom exists in the mind, otherwise it doesn't exist."
DivinO
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States4796 Posts
October 27 2009 01:21 GMT
#15
Congrats. Your comics are awesome. Thanks to EsX Raptor for translating!
LiquipediaBrain in my filth.
never_Nal
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Costa Rica676 Posts
October 27 2009 01:35 GMT
#16
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