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:
pick a number from backlog; remove it
comment on that entry
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?
sic transiverunt webcomics
About a dozen years ago I made a page of links to my favorite webcomics. Looking at that list now, I find that twelve that are still going (though a few are very sporadic), ten have stopped but remain accessible through a system of tubes, and eight have vanished:
- Fluble by Christopher Mastrangelo
- Bobbins by John Allison
- When I Grow Up by Jeff Rowland
- JoBeth by BJ Hiorns and Joey Hetzel
- Shaw Island by Zach Stroum
- The New Adventures of Bobbin! by Joycelyn Yik
- Catharsis by Jen Boeke
- Everyone Drunk But Me by Laura Beth Brandt
Other favorites now missing include
- Malfunction Junction by Matt Milby
- As If! by Amy Hebberson
- Life on Forbez
- meh~! (mathematically enhanced hares) by wing mui
- Warp 9 to Hell
- Knowledge Is Power by Laura Chapple
- Yourmometer by Hobbes (Laura LeGault)
- Killer Robots from Space by Adam Greengard
- Don’t Forget to Validate Your Parking by Mike Le
- Cyberbooty by Tony B
- everything at Graphic Smash, Modern Tales and Webcomics Nation
Maybe when a favorite series stops updating for a year I ought to save the content for myself before it vanishes!
the inquiring mind, however dim
When Jeff Riggenbach said that Butt-Head is smarter than Beavis, I told him about this bit (the relevant part begins at 1:30). I say Butt-Head is more worldly but Beavis is more imaginative.