curious about causality
Without trying, I can think of five webcomics authors who changed their pronouns long after they started posting: Dana Simpson (Ozy and Millie), Joey Alison Sayers (Thingpart and now Alley Oop), Allison Shabet (Deadwinter), Elli Stephens (Goblins), and now Maelyn Dean (Real Life).
Is there something in the ink?
early webcomics gallery
Joe Average’s first anniversary strip features characters from 37 other strips. Can you help me name them? Some have fallen off the Web.
there are domains and domains
keenspace.com, a free hosting service for comic strips, changed its name (not long after it was founded) to comicgenesis.com; but the old name still works, as do comicgen.com and (I just learned) toonspace.com and webcomicspace.com. Well, mostly.
Mostly it doesn’t matter whether you look at foo.comicgenesis.com, foo.keenspace.com or foo.comicgen.com; you get the same content. But sometimes images don’t show unless the address is foo.comicgenesis.com.
What’s going on here? Apparently these domains are not transparent synonyms for each other; but why would they be (flawed) mirrors?
second-guessing by halves
Early strips of some webcomics carry the author’s much later comments. Christopher Baldwin (Bruno) and David Willis (Roomies!) are reposting old series that ended. David Morgan-Mar’s (Irregular Webcomic!) schedule these days is two new strips and five comments on old strips each week.
If it were me, I think I’d want to keep coming back to older strips, with ever decreasing frequency. Perhaps like this:
if n even:
n /= 2
comment on n
while n even:
n /= 2
add n to backlog
else:
pop a number from backlog and comment on it
And so it reiterates
In the last couple of years I’ve looked at thousands of webcomics. Sometimes I wish I’d kept a list of those whose first page is captioned “It begins” or “So it begins” or “And so it begins.”
cross-drafting
Gail Simone asks:
Question of the day: if you could have one piece of art drawn by any living comics artist, not to sell, what artist and what character?
I haven’t followed (paper) comics in a long time, but several possibilities come to mind; in rough order of seriousness:
- Churchy & Owl (from Pogo) by Bill Watterson
- Adam Warlock and Gamora by Walt Simonson
- … with Thanos by Kate Beaton
- Dr Strange by R Crumb
- the Bat-family by Dorothy Gambrell
- Cheech Wizard by Dave Sim
I’ve seen such changes
How old do you need to be to understand this gag from 1978?