The Doctor Is In

Micro Comic Summer Returns for 2024!

In 2022, Hiveworks introduced Micro Comic Summer, an online comic challenge shared via the #MicroComicSummer tag on varied social media channels.

Micro Comic Summer is one of many online art challenges that bring creators together to complete a project and share their work with their community. Other well-known examples of art challenges include Hourly Comic Day, where artists draw a comic panel for every hour of their day, and Inktober (along with its inspired spin-offs), a daily illustration challenge in October.

Micro Comic Summer focuses on sustainable art practices, story craft, and art exploration, by encouraging creators to take an entire summer to draw a 4-page comic.

The rules of Micro Comic Summer are as follows:

Rule 1- Tell a story in four pages. This rule is possibly the most challenging aspect: to be succinct and efficient with your page count. Some creators have used this challenge as an opportunity to redraw old webcomic pages or introduce new readers to their pre-existing characters and story. What story you tell is completely up to you!

Rule 2 - You have all summer (or winter, for the southern hemisphere) to do it. From June to the end of August, take your time to perfect your paneling, edit your story, and choose your palette thoughtfully. There is no need to make snap decisions or cut corners for this challenge. The timeframe is meant to encourage exploration and growth.

Rule 3 - Share it online. Use the tag #MicroComicSummer to share your work with others on August 31. Contribute to the conversation around comic artist working conditions.

While Hiveworks introduced Micro Comic Summer, anyone is free to participate. Participation in the tag does not mean you’re submitting your work to us, nor does it mean we own it. It’s just a hashtag, for fun.

We can’t wait to see what you come up with!

🌟 Don’t forget to visit the tag to see what artists have created in 2022 and 2023!

😎 For long form webcomics, check out Hiveworks' amazing library of works, all free to read!

I feel like this a lot. In a way it's a nice and a bad feeling. Nice because there is so much I want to write about. Bad because I worry if I'll get the time to write it all. Overall though I'm glad I'll be able to add to my world for the very foreseeable future.

Well I invented my watermark (and I think I will change it as soon as I have one more “me” in my head)

And I invented an AU, mixing Monster Falls and Cats Don’t Dance called:

“Sphinxes don’t think”

In which Mosnters are trying to get the job of their liking or dreams and are denied by humans. (yeah the probleme is that it’s a “been there done that” with everything)

Ford is trying to be a head scientist for the Northwest laboratory, but reality slaps him later in the face when he makes a mistake and finally sees that Mosnters are in a rank of Job a bit below from the humans.

Yeah in big Ford is the optimistic Danny and Bill is  the sarcastic yet hopeful Sawyer.

And no, Bill isn’t powerful here, he can’t even fly duo to him being part golem and part cheetah sphinx.

And yes it was supposed to be a BillFord AU (Warning: if you don’t like BillFord is fine, just do not put hate message and don’t round up a mob.)

and since I came to multiple dead ends concerning this AU, I might concern it dead or at least in a coma since I can’t stop to draw the characters.

well that’s that. And again do not steal!

Gravity Falls belong to Disney and Alex Hirsch

here's a rough animation of Divcey being annoyed by a monologue from someone complaining

i just wanted to clarify some things

artists know the risk they are taking when they post their art online. people are inevitably going to take it apart, color edit it, flip it around or otherwise post it uncredited.

saying that an artist shouldn’t post their work if they don’t want it bastardized is probably the stupidest stance on this subject you could take. if all artists followed this line of reasoning, there would be no art on the internet. 

when an artist posts their work, they are trusting you to enjoy it respectfully. and when you betray that trust either knowingly or unknowingly, it’s like saying the artist’s time, skills and thoughts aren’t worth anything.

you are NOT entitled to an artists work just because they decided to trust you enough to share it with you.

an artist is within their right to feel upset that someone has used their work in a way they never intended it to be used. they are within their right to ask for it to stop and not happen again.

just because it’s “bound to happen” doesn’t mean it’s any less deplorable.

Do you still like legends of oz?

I don’t know

creator of sacred pleasure ............. XD I ‘ll give it that! It has a nice ring to it!

happy new year 2021