Taking a break from the gathering, since I was really starting to miss Laurence and her wisdom. Also, the following strips are gonna be chock-full of characters and it’s gonna be a nightmare to draw them all. T_T
At least the palette-swapped clerk girls aren’t on her character chart. Speaking of swaps, I hope yellow Mr. Toad doesn’t become another recurring character. We already have our hands full with the green one.
I was wondering… Do you guys ever check the posts I put on the main page? The comment factor is so low on these. :(
It’s a new month! Please vote for me on Top Web Comics so I can have a headstart into the top 100!
And don’t forget to comment, follow me on Twitter or like the Facebook page!
All right, folks, Frivolesque is not in the top 100 yet, so let’s all vote, okay? Just three mouse clicks, it’s that easy (first click is on the topwebcomics button above).
Just do it, okay?
It was down to 115th when I last voted.
And half a day later is… 72! :D
Remaining steady at 72nd place.
My God, #62?!!? What?
Must be a record for fastest rise on topwebcomics…
I voted again and now it’s up to 61st place.
Even keeping the place is significative too, it means that we are growing at least as fast as the other comics around us :)
You guys are legion!
Last month the average votes amount on Mondays was 60, yesterday there were over 100. Worth to notice that this time DEZ did a reminder on Facebook :)
I have the best non-furry readers in the world.
Maybe someone with Facebook could remind people in Frivolesque account to vote too?
Panel 3 Aristide gives off a smarmy vibe there.
I see what you mean, it was a bit more like smug to me :)
It’s not easy to tell the difference between smug and smarmy on a comic frog.
He’s a Toad!
He looks as smooth as a frog…
Swarmy?
smarmy /ˈsmɑːmi/
adjective informal
adjective: smarmy; comparative adjective: smarmier; superlative adjective: smarmiest
ingratiating and wheedling in a way that is regarded as insincere or excessive.
“a smarmy, unctuous reply”
synonyms: unctuous, ingratiating, smooth, slick, oily, greasy, fulsome, flattering, obsequious, sycophantic, fawning
Also, kudos for knowing his name!
I did remember to read the hovertext after all. ^_^
Right. If Frivolesque makes it into the top 100 early, that puts it on the first page of topwebcomics.com, increasing visibility and attracting new viewers. So vote, and drag in the newbies!
Mee-owww! (Cat Planet Cuties reference, there.)
I can’t bring myself to vote on TWC. If I vote for one comic, even one as great as Frivolesque, I feel obligated to vote for my other favorites too, and it’s a rather long list.
Do many people even check there when finding new reading material?
It sure works. I see way more hits in my stats when Frivolesque is in the top 100.
Hits as in HP?
I always hated this RPG designation…
I’ll look into setting up a set of voting bookmarks, then.
Would it help if we turned off our adblocking software? I have no idea if you benefit financially from ads, but if it will encourage you to keep going, I’ll add an exception. I still want vote incentives, though..
I don’t have any ads yet, so no, but I definitely should have some…
That’s how I find new webcomics. Although, I do a lot of my searching starting with the least popular and moving up.
Same here :)
BTW: “Other TWC members who liked Frivolesque also voted for Girl Genius [PG], Strays [PG], questionable content [PG], xkcd [PG], Gunnerkrigg Court [PG]”
Good company :)
Holy cr*p! I *read* all of those! (Except for Strays since it ended a week or so ago…)
Heh, except “Strays” I read them all too :) well, nowadays I rarely read Gunnerkrigg, over the time it changed off the things I liked the most.
I checked “Strays” and it seems good, I put it in the “to binge” list. Thanks ;)
Yes, I really hate it when I get immersed in a webcomic and the writers take it in a direction that I don’t like.
Or become insultingly partisan.
Or just drop it cold, with no explanation or closing theme.
I just quit reading one where the author repeatedly insulted me because of my political views. Why piss off half of your potential viewers?
If it’s part of your storyline, that’s one thing. But this guy was ranting in the author’s comments.
Urgh.
Well, I’ll try not to attack your views, then. I don’t know where you stand (and don’t care), but I hope you understand that most artists probably lean toward the left. ;)
I don’t think I’ll ever be guilty of doing the other things, at least. It pisses me off too when a comic stops updating without notice. Or worse, when they say they’ll take a hiatus, but never come back…
Like Homestuck (which used to update pretty much 50 pages a day), the author said over a year ago that the comic will end soon, then took a year-long hiatus, then came back to updating M-W-F, then took another hiatus, pretexting working on his videogame spinoff that got $2.5M on Kickstarter and on the remainder of the story that will probably be published all at once, or maybe not… Yeah, it’s kind of weird. Probably worse than just stopping updating, promising that it’ll update again eventually and you’re just waiting there indefinitely?
To quote Not Fred, “it ended September in place 87 with 852 votes.”
Lets try for somewhere in the top 100 with over 1000 votes in October.
Tell your friends to vote. Bribe them with cookies if you have to.
Or rice balls…
Come to the Frivolesque Side, we have cookies & riceballs…
Don’t forget sore loser bears.
Oh yeah, we do have a ton of rice balls. Especially when the girls hang out at the Fanamanga.
Hey, what if next time there’s a rice balls war over Mimi custody or something? :P
Actually I was repeating your data :)
1.000 votes is a very nice milestone to reach. I’m already in, of course.
In fact we could accomplish it with just 6 more readers that vote everyday ;)
Wahahaha :) Nice, I was missing Laurence too :)
Oh my, don’t tell me that we are going to have four swords toads as well. :P
They’re already not following the four sword color coding, so I don’t think so.
Primary colours (both light & paint versions) perhaps?
Or did Mr Toad get left in the sun too long?
I’d forgotten Phoebe was on the relationship chart.
She’s been there from the start, waiting for her role to expand…
I mostly just remember the circle around Marie-Neige when I picture the chart itself. Remembering relationships is easy, but visualising them as a chart less so.
There’s too many characters, now you sound just like George R.R. Martin ;)
I wasn’t checking main page, but I see those posts in twitter. Never crossed my mind that I could comment them, somehow 0_o
Anyway, I would love to see full-rez relationship chart :)
I still don’t need a character glossary, at least. :)
I don’t tweet about everything. But I’m kinda sad that nobody checks the main page.^^
And the chart has always been there!
http://frivolesque.com/cast/relationships
And unlike other webcomic creators, I do keep those things updated.
Wow. Cool) Guess I’m not that deep into webcomics, because it is the first relationship chart I see) Didn’t know they exist until now)
Laurent – Laurence, that is so weird… Flore’s dreaming about her alter ego who is thinking Flore to be a character in webcomic, so in effect Flore assumes herself to be a fictional character… Would that explain some of her weirdness?
Possibly, but there is also the fact not only has Clementine actually met Laurance, but it was recognize in-comic that it actually happened in ‘real’ life. Perhaps the 2 are actual twins/resonating transdimensional representations of each other (Daniel the Human’s idea), with a strong enough link between them to at least be influenced by the other, Laurance however having access to some some of tech/power which lets he float in space, hang out with chess playing bears, cross into Flores reality (if trans-dimensional representations), etc…
Daniel the Human here, taking over from Screwball’s failed attempts to explain my idea :P. By trans-dimensional representations, I basically mean the same person, but in another dimension/reality. Sometimes they could resonate with other versions of themselves enough to pick up on the other’s actions, kinda like a “If I was in this scenario, I’d do this” thing…
Well, I can tell all that info I’ve added have Screwball scratching his head & threatening processor meltdown, did I hurt anyone else’s brain…? :P
Laurence is a puzzle for sure.
I don’t know if many comics have them, I was just saying I try to keep the subsections of the page up to date.
I really hate going to the Cast Page of a comic that’s been running for years only to find a “coming soon!” message, or badly outdated information.
Nifty!
And it deals with characters I haven’t even met yet.
By my experience there’s always something posted in a site that’s not in the others. It worth to check them all ;)
Too many characters? Well maybe in this particular storyline (at least you haven’t worked in any of the guys yet), but I don’t think you’re doing too bad overall. All you have to do is remember to keep the background characters in the background, except for Clementine…and maybe the Girls with Many Jobs…and…oh forget it. Go crazy.
I guess more characters means a richer background for my characters to live in. But I have some trouble keeping the background characters to the background. XD
And lol. You’re putting the job girl over Mimi and Liliane. That’s sad.
Great, now I want a chapter where one of the Job Girls babysits Mimi for an evening.
Oh? That’s an unusual request… Why?
More facetime for minor/background characters – it was the first idea that sprang to mind that revolved around two of my favorites outside the main cast.
Plus it plays to their strengths: Mimi as an adorable kid with a taste for adventure, and Jobs Girl as someone who works a lot of jobs and sometimes has difficulty getting a word in edgewise.
Not so much a request as idle daydreaming, mind. I trust whatever ideas you’re running with.
I love her hair talons, the bits of hair that wrap around from her ears to her eyes. They look like they’re clawing her face. Like she’s some sort of white-haired Filia (from Skullgirls).
I really like her hairstyle. It’s been compared to Satoshi Kon’s Paprika character before, but it’s the first time I hear the Filia comparison… I totally agree, though. Especially when Filia wears her hat…
Yes, the Hat! That’s what made me compare the two in my head, lol. I wonder what Laurence’s hair’s name is…?
I wonder how many hats Filia owns considering Samson eats one everytime he reveals himself.
Ok, now that piqued my interest. Going to check… :)
They are never too much of interesting character !^^
Thank you Perco!
As long as you can keep track of them all, I got no problems. Altho charts like that help. Tried keeping track of all the OCs in Daniel the Human’s head, woke up later on with my head in a half-filled bath in a rather humid bathroom. Seems I’d overheated my processors that bad he chucked me in a filled bath to cool off, only to evaporate half of it…
Every time I see that chart I’m like who’s Ben? Then I’m like oh yeah! He’s that one guy!
G’ah. I need to use him more. In my mind, he’s important, but clearly, I’m not doing it right since most people react like you when he’s mentioned. ^^;
His relationships with Chloe, Frederic, and Mimi make him a pretty memorable character for me.
He should have a bit more panel time soon. ;)
It’s so ironic that he’s your avatar now.
I’m having exactly the same problem… I’m cutting about 20 characters out of my comic now, so that people can actually know who they are :p
Cutting them? Like, getting rid of them forever?
I could never do that.
Oh sh*t, Aristide isn’t a cameo, right? :P
Haha, no. In fact, there’s a story behind him…
Mr. Toad is inspired from some weird character my brother came up with while doing some voicework for fun.
When I tried to mimic his Mr. Toad voice, he kept telling me I was terrible, and that my Mr. Toad wasn’t the real Mr. Toad.
So I ended up saying he was Mr.Toad’s friend, called… Aristide for some reason. (actually inspired from this old french ad.)
So the yellow Toad is a reference to my lack of voiceover skills. I guess only my brother can “get” this strip, but I did it anyway considering it’s a Laurence strip and you guys are used to this weird shit by now.
Also, the friendship is one sided. Mr. Toad refuses to acknowledge Aristide’s existence.
Heh, nice backstory. Thanks for sharing, It makes the stirp even more enjoyable :)
I might run them as occasional side-characters, but they’ll basically stop appearing regularly. :)
Voted! But only because Laurence has similar color to Marie-Neige ‘s hair. The frog is epic though.
Oh, goody! My avatar is friends with Clementine! (I don’t know why that makes me happy.)
But not with Gaia? Waaahhhh!
Boy, that little bit of happy had a short life…
Don’t worry, Fred is definitely donna be friends with all the girls before long. He’s that kind of guy.
That’s great! He strikes me as the kind of guy who can actually be friends with girls without trying to take it any further. Not that he wouldn’t have a girlfriend, just that he can be friends with anyone.
Yeah. I actually see him as the kind of guy who is looking for his special someone. He definitely doesn’t hit on every cute girl he sees. (Unless a bunch of single guys I know -__- )
Oh, right, the main page. Haven’t been there in years. XD Is that comic even that old yet? I just bookmark the latest strip and read from there every few weeks. I wouldn’t want to bookmark the main page and backtrack every time instead.
Notice that at the right side bar of every page you have the list of the latest blog post (and the latest comics) with links. You can check there if something new has been posted.
And finally the lovely Roxanne got duplicate :) I think it was the last (or almost) Frivolesque avatar remaining unduplicated.
Another signal of your grow DEZ! ;)
Hey NotFred, nice to see you again. ^^
Yes, there is a sidebar, thanks for the hint, but I’m too busy to read the blog posts.
You’re missing out on all the extra content! ;)
Damn, I hadn’t thought of that.
I’m about to pour some new avatars in the system soon. Yellow Toad, Background Girls, Delphine’s crew and some extra Job Girls all wish they could be there. You’re gonna lose your Roxane. ;)
T_T
Well, it’s a chance to get a Clementine :)
DEZ, just in case: is the tag “Mr. Bear” instead “The Bear” intentional?
Rah. Thank you for noticing. Brain fart.
I’d say your comment question is answered, and the comic is 58th as of right now because we read the front page.
Good luck with the launching tomorrow DEZ!! Or break a leg, as you prefer :)