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Chapter: Chapter 6 Choices, The Bean Comic

Characters: Bean, Gwen (Mama Fairy)

Location: Dark Leaf Forest, Mama Fairies Realm, the Swamps

I have been in a few discussions of late about B/W comics and are they dead? It has been an interesting conversation, especially since I have been fighting with all sorts of directions on where I need to take things.

I have really appreciated the encouragement and the eye opener that b/w comics are not dead. I know that it is a hard sell these days, yet I have found many people still enjoy the pen/ink medium. So I will push ever forward and continue my grand adventure forward with the bean.

Thanks for reading-

trav

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29 Comments

Jathaan » 29 Nov 2013 » Reply

I know I'm terribly late to this conversation, but I'm a new reader that has gotten hooked on your marvelous adventure, and I wanted to say thank you! 🙂 B/W comics are far from dead; in fact, I'd say some of the best comics ever made are and have been monochrome. Art Spiegelman's "Maus" is the definitive printed example, along with "Bone" and so many others; for webcomics, there's "Lackadaisy" (http://lackadaisy.foxprints.com/index.php), Ursula Vernon's "Digger" (http://diggercomic.com), Evan Dahm's "Order of Tales" (http://www.rice-boy.com/order/), "The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage" (http://sydneypadua.com/2dgoggles/stories/), and "The Abominable Charles Christopher" (http://abominable.cc) – among many, many others.

In fact, I think most of my favorite webcomics are monochrome. There are some really amazing colored stories out there, but they are the exceptions, not the rule – and they usually don't update on nearly the frequency that the good b/w comics do. I check Dresden Codak for an update once every three or four months or so, because Aaron paints these enormous pages that take forever. (The current story arc started back in mid-2010, and is only 28 pages long so far. Worth it, but still…)

Anyrate, wanted to say The Bean has become one of my favorite comics, and I've spent far too much time on it today, obsessively clicking "next" 🙂 I love your art, and the story has tantalizing bits and pieces of a larger world that we haven't been shown yet, and I can't wait to see what happens next. Thank you for creating this!

Ruthie » 5 Dec 2012 » Reply

One thing that really draws me into this comic and story is how warm you have managed to make a Black & White comic. I love colorful pictures, and I can inagine what this would look like in color, but I especially like emotional colors of each character in this. Whenever Tia appears, I think of warm golden sparks. Cheerful characters are some of my favorites 🙂