Lemon Inc.
A Weekly Webcomic by Tim Lai
This comic is still very new and the early stages are supposed to be used to experiment and find your voice (so I’m told). I’m debating what level of maturity the comic should have. As you can see I’ve used a swear word of sorts in this strip (although I covered it up with symbols). I feel that the swear word adds to the extremity of Andy’s statement and thus solidifies how seriously he takes himself. I want to make it clear that Lemon Inc. is not directed at children. Please share your thoughts. For now I need to get some sleep. 
-Tim
Hey, nothing makes you want to pull your hair out more than deciding whether or not you should add an element to your strip that you haven’t done before (and may change the essence of it). I recently wrestled with this when deciding whether or not to use “Britney Spears” in my strip on 8/28, since that automatically dates the otherwise ambiguous time-setting of the strip. Oh well, I liked the idea, and at worst I’ll look back on that in a few years and think, “Yeah, that’s when I was still defining the strip, please ignore the dated pop-culture reference.”
I think it would be good to put something like, “A PG-13 webcomic” in a humorous way by the title image. The artwork is great, but at first glance, since it involves cartoon kids at a lemonade stand, a reader’s first assumption will be that it’s a G-rated strip.
But anywho, browse around other popular webcomics’ first strips (Goats.com, for example) and see how different they were in the beginning. That’s the fun of having a new strip, watching it evolve in front of your eyes into the solidified strip it will become in after a while!
Thanks for putting so much thought into your response!
I was aware that on first impression the comic looks G-rated. Putting a PG-13 label next to the header sounds like a good idea. That would let people know what to expect as soon as they come to the site and expel any preconceptions that they may have had. I’m considering making some improvements to the website so I’ll add that if I do. By the way I read your “Britney Spears” comic and thought it was really funny. 
I guess it dates it a bit but I don’t feel that it’s much of an issue since you never actually showed her in the comic.
Hi Tim. I agree with D. Long…It is a neat and risky part of growth to try something new and to see how it is received. I think it is great to “step outside of the box” from time-to-time in order to find the audience you are most happy and comfortable addressing. Thanks for the new comic!