I made quite a few MUSIC+COMICs last year, and started 2025 with one too. See above.
I haven't seen anyone else do quite the same thing. An under 60 second "animation" with music as a soundtrack and a Newspaper strip-ish comic with animated speech balloons and other images. BUT it isn't an animation and there is no voice over.
Just combined my own interests of mostly "slice of life type comics" and "original music". The music doesn't support the comic, and the comic doesn't support the comic, but gives me an outlet for both.
The 48second music track of the above in Reaper looks like this:
I have made some these in the YOUTUBE SHORT format too, but they aren't something Google shows to anyone, so no one sees them unless I post to Social Media, where the chances really aren't any better. 😂
Such as these single digit view counts, that are probably just me
I see these all as experiments, and some work better than others. Most of the time the subject of the comic is something I come up with "off the cuff" as I see how a music clip sounds as a movie with the waveform in MOHO Pro12.
I discovered years ago actually doing an animation is just too time consuming, with a similar amount of views, so the ROI of my time is just much worse.
MOHO Pro12 makes these very simple to do. Moving images around and text balloons synced to the soundtrack is fast and easy to do.
MUSIC+COMICs has the right amount of satisfaction to me against time taken to do, to make them an interesting creative outlet. Often I will then extend the music to a 3 or 4 minute piece of music, if I like the ideas in it enough, and release it on Bandcamp, where again, no one plays it except me.
And we extended the track, and is now on Bandcamp in a collection here: CAT HOPES 2025 EXTENDED.
Making and releasing these things keeps me "a happy camper".
We can be found at ArtAndTechnology
