T Campbell's Blog
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...Monday, December 19, 2005
I Rule.
How good a day is it when you get mentions on Comixpedia's list of "25 People in Webcomics" AND Publisher's @#$%^ing Weekly?
It's a very good day. And by "you," I mean "me."
I don't have the best quotes in either piece, but here're my best bits:
Just as Stan Lee famously used the "Bullpen Bulletins" page of Marvel comics in the 1960s to promote a clublike feeling of inclusion, today's top Web cartoonists have developed a close relationship with their audience. "We can e-mail our favorite cartoonists and most of them that aren't too big will respond. Almost every Web comic in existence has a forum," Campbell points out.
[About the iPod, PSP and cell phones:] "These are interesting and powerful new media with a really solid potential to reach the audience that everyone wants and no one knows how to get: the teenage-to-college-age crowd that is very intelligent, with a lot of disposable income. They're still forming brand loyalties—- many of them for the rest of their lives."
[Highlights:] I had a few stories about short-lived relationships and their aftermaths which were probably my best of the year: Sluggy Freelance's "The Sluggite Koan," Rip & Teri's "The Other Woman" and Penny & Aggie's "Uptown Girl."
Hm, maybe some English student could take a look at those three stories and mine them for comparisons and contrasts? I'd like to see such a thing.
But then, as I said when this blog began, my ego grows ever larger.
ALSO OF NOTE: OhNoRobot blasts past 18,000 transcriptions today! And we're starting to allow more detailed transcriptions and search techniques. Check it ouuuuuut!
It's a very good day. And by "you," I mean "me."
I don't have the best quotes in either piece, but here're my best bits:
Just as Stan Lee famously used the "Bullpen Bulletins" page of Marvel comics in the 1960s to promote a clublike feeling of inclusion, today's top Web cartoonists have developed a close relationship with their audience. "We can e-mail our favorite cartoonists and most of them that aren't too big will respond. Almost every Web comic in existence has a forum," Campbell points out.
[About the iPod, PSP and cell phones:] "These are interesting and powerful new media with a really solid potential to reach the audience that everyone wants and no one knows how to get: the teenage-to-college-age crowd that is very intelligent, with a lot of disposable income. They're still forming brand loyalties—- many of them for the rest of their lives."
[Highlights:] I had a few stories about short-lived relationships and their aftermaths which were probably my best of the year: Sluggy Freelance's "The Sluggite Koan," Rip & Teri's "The Other Woman" and Penny & Aggie's "Uptown Girl."
Hm, maybe some English student could take a look at those three stories and mine them for comparisons and contrasts? I'd like to see such a thing.
But then, as I said when this blog began, my ego grows ever larger.
ALSO OF NOTE: OhNoRobot blasts past 18,000 transcriptions today! And we're starting to allow more detailed transcriptions and search techniques. Check it ouuuuuut!
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Yeah Heidi McDumbass just learned about Penny Arcade five minutes ago and now she's writing an "authoritative" article on webcomics.
Typical... Still any pub is good pub I guess, and even though it's just an article by the gossip queen of "The Beat", no one who reads Publisher's Weekly will know the difference.
Typical... Still any pub is good pub I guess, and even though it's just an article by the gossip queen of "The Beat", no one who reads Publisher's Weekly will know the difference.
Are you saying webcomics ARE cultish, esoteric works not easily accessible to the outsider like she implies, then?
I mean, if they're not then she should be able to pick up the goings on pretty quickly. That would mean that she could write a fairly reasonable article on them without being a slobbering devotee like the rest of us, right?
-TWG @ Work
I mean, if they're not then she should be able to pick up the goings on pretty quickly. That would mean that she could write a fairly reasonable article on them without being a slobbering devotee like the rest of us, right?
-TWG @ Work
It seems a pretty decent article to me. The first line bothers me, but that's because it's probably true. Lets' hope she's right about the Manga comparison too.
Heidi interviewed me for the PW piece. I found her an open-minded, perceptive outsider. Please bear in mind that she is writing for an audience of TRADITIONAL BOOKS-WITHOUT-PICTURES PUBLISHERS, who are still trying to fathom the whole manga thing, and the whole superhero thing for that matter.
Any publicity is bound to help, especially when you're getting ready to launch Clickwheel and Oh No Robot is taking off. Congrats, T, that's awesome.
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