If you visited Lemon inc.’s Blogspot page then you know that I had posted some early Lemon Inc. comics there. This WAS NOT a launch of the comic in any way. I didn’t do these in any particular order. I just did the first gags or scenes that came to mind so that I could get some experience doing the comic and experiment a bit before I set up this website.

However I’d always intended for Lemon Inc. to be a storyline based comic and most of the gags were fragments of storylines. I didn’t post many of the comics that are on the Blogspot page on the website because they come chronologically later than the comics that I’m posting right now.

I have refined my process since I created those comics and feel that they no longer meet the same level of quality as the comics I’m doing now in terms of art at least. Therefore I’m not sure weather I should post them before the comics that come chronologically first, post them later on where they belong in the story, or redraw them altogether. How would you like to see these comics? If anyone has an opinion on this please let me know.

-Tim

I had been mostly focused on the idea of entering the field of graphic novels and because I didn’t think of this as a graphic novel I pushed it to the back burner. Not many graphic novel publishers are particularly interested in comedy though and that is often my genre of choice. I have been aware of webcomics for quite some time though and read several on a daily basis. I was even aware that some people made a living off of their webcomics but I thought that it was a goal that was even more unrealistic than starting a newspaper comic.

About a year ago though I came to the realization that doing a webcomic would be a great way to hone my cartooning skills. Lemon Inc. was the first idea that came to mind. I designed the characters, came up with some storylines, and even designed a website but I never got around to actually getting web hosting or setting up my site until now. This actually turned out to be a blessing because it gave me time to learn about webcomics and prepare myself for my own.

During the past year I have been expanding the number of webcomics that I read and have discovered some truly great comics (although I have yet to read through many of the ones that I have discovered… the ones with big archives) and I have familiarized myself with the world of webcomics. Webcomics seem to have a different atmosphere than newspaper comics or graphic novels. I could create a comic in any genre about anything I wanted and it wouldn’t matter. It feels like I’ve found the venue I’ve been looking for to make comics.

I have realized that it truly is possible to turn this into a career and I hope that I can one day although I’m not focusing on making this into one at the moment. For now I feel that I simply need to make this comic for the joy of doing so. I hope you will enjoy reading Lemon Inc. I am very excited about it and I have some ideas that I feel, if I can pull them off, could be kinda epic.

I plan to update the comic on Tuesdays and update this blog at least once a week. Please feel free to tell me what you think of the comic so far and of the site design too.

Thanks for reading this!

-Tim Lai