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Open Soapbox: Why We Webcomic

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Like A Disease

Three AM on a Saturday and I am barely conscious. Sleepily, my fingers tap across the keyboard, editing the html code on the screen before me. I upload the page onto the server and hope that the third time will be the charm. Alas, no; the link between the main page and the latest archive page is still broken. I am dead tired and just want to go to bed. Still, I am compelled to stay awake by one thing alone; the comic. I can’t let myself go to bed before I finish updating my webcomic.

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I Was a Teenage Blog Queen

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It all started early one spring as exams were wrapping up. My group of university friends, together 8 months of the year, were once again facing the harsh reality of being ripped away from each other, from Saskatoon to Timbuktu. Rather than trying to send emails to everyone (there were quite a few of us), we all got livejournals and started blogging, with the promise that we wouldn’t tell the people at home (or wherever we were spending the summer) what we were up to.

Some of us were more successful than others.

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Narcissism, thy name is Webcomic?

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You’ve heard of parents living vicariously through their children, right? Well, living vicariously has now been taken to new extremes. Lo and behold, if you’re not satisfied with leeching life from a REAL person, you can now enjoy the satisfaction of pretending to be uber-cool through completely MADE-UP folks.

Wait, wait, wait… you’re thinking this is about Role-Playing, right?
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Dancing Naked For You in Go-Go Cage Panels – journal comics explored

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Curious to know what's going on inside your favorite creator's head, but haven't found any of them willing to lay on your operating table for a quick scalpel job and brain yoink? Tired of having to call up your local phone psychic to find out what Joe Cartoonist had for dinner last night? Well, don't despair: an interesting alternative has crept onto the webcomics scene, one that may prove to satisfy all your needs for (voyeuristic?) curiosity – without the need for spiritual guidance at 9.99 a minute, or an abduction by burlap sack followed by water-torture interrogation. Continue Reading →

Why Do Online Comics?

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I’m finally getting around to reading Art Spiegelman’s Maus. As I do, I find myself thinking about why this work would be considered worthy of a Pulitzer Prize. I don’t mean to say that it isn’t; I just want to understand what sets it apart in that special way. By analyzing it this way, my hope is to find something to aspire to through my own work, to find another reason to continue to create comics.

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Gutterwallowing by Michael McKay-Fleming

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I love comics. I love comic books, comic strips, web comics. I love superheroes, indies, underground, naughty, sci fi, fantasy, auto biography, funny, furry; hell, I even chuckle at Family Circus once in awhile.

"So what," I hear you saying, "we all do (except that Family Circus thing. That’s just freaky)."

Listen closely (or read closely, you know what I mean) and all your questions will be answered.

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Webcomic Communities (Part Three) — Flies in the Forum Ointment? by Kelly J. Cooper

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This is part three of a series — be sure to read part one and part two!

There’s something about comics that make people want to talk. And sometimes, just talking causes more chaos and consternation than you can imagine. Between technical failures, heated discussions on controversial topics, and the occasional troll, creators who wish to maintain a community presence may be called on to do much more than just write and draw their comics.

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