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Writer of Penny and Aggie, Fans (also called Faans), Rip & Teri, Search Engine Funnies and A History of Webcomics. Experienced webcomics editor, currently seeking full-time work and working on strange and interesting new things...Tuesday, August 02, 2005
Is A Compliment Forever?
Getting back after my vacation, I finally admitted that a few strips in my alleged "favorites list" just aren't doing it for me any more. I really don't want to name names here, but a few that I used to think were some of the best on the Web now seem to be going out of their way to... un-impress me.
Makes things a little awkward, because if you're one of my favorites, you usually hear about it, and then you're sort of a friend. You have to support your friends-- even when they move in directions you don't quite understand-- and finding the line between support and endorsement is hard, when they used to be one and the same.
And let's turn that lens back on myself. When I got most of the pull quotes on http://tcampbell.net, I was primarily doing Fans. I'm sorta guessing that Penny and Aggie and Search Engine Funnies have a different audience base. I'm proud that Harlan Ellison liked my stuff, but if you actually called him up today I doubt he'd remember me. Should I go ahead and take down-- or at least minimize-- those pull quotes? It's time to add SEF to the website, anyway...
Makes things a little awkward, because if you're one of my favorites, you usually hear about it, and then you're sort of a friend. You have to support your friends-- even when they move in directions you don't quite understand-- and finding the line between support and endorsement is hard, when they used to be one and the same.
And let's turn that lens back on myself. When I got most of the pull quotes on http://tcampbell.net, I was primarily doing Fans. I'm sorta guessing that Penny and Aggie and Search Engine Funnies have a different audience base. I'm proud that Harlan Ellison liked my stuff, but if you actually called him up today I doubt he'd remember me. Should I go ahead and take down-- or at least minimize-- those pull quotes? It's time to add SEF to the website, anyway...
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I'd leave the quotes up. They're praise of your writing talent in general, not of your work on a single comic or particular genre. You seem as good as ever to me, anyway.
I'd leave the quotations up. It's the same as any writer.
As to comics that you're drifting apart from, there's a phrase coming to mind: "You had me and you lost me."
As to comics that you're drifting apart from, there's a phrase coming to mind: "You had me and you lost me."
I think YHMALM syndrome is inevitable with webcomics. No matter how good a comic is, you can only read the same comic for so long without getting gradually more tired of reading it. Plus you can only read so many comics a day...
Of course YHMALM comics sometimes have a way of creeping back onto the "must read list" if they are _that_ good...
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Of course YHMALM comics sometimes have a way of creeping back onto the "must read list" if they are _that_ good...
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