Posts Tagged ‘print vs. web’

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Entering Ad-Land

by Dan Long on May 4, 2010 at 00:07
I was surprised to learn that some people purchase things from those.

The Q&A page has been rearranged to link to my Formspring account first and foremost.  Questions will be answered there, so read and/or ask, for answers to questions!

Also, there was a typographical error in my previous comic post regarding prints. They are $9.95, not $9.99, so you can take those four cents and throw them in a wishing well for four wishes, and wish for four more prints!  And then you’ll realize that you could have just kept your 995 pennies and thrown them ALL in the wishing well, to get hundreds of prints, and you’ll write me to ask me to refund your money in return for the print you purchased.  But I spray my prints with an irresistible candy coating that you won’t be able to resist licking upon opening the package, and I’m not going to take back a licked print, because that’s gross. I don’t want to lick it after it’s been through all that.

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If It Were Syndicated (#ifitweresyndicated)

by Dan Long on January 14, 2010 at 00:21

On Twitter last night, several webcomickers played with an idea that poked fun at the state of syndicated comics today- most of which is cliche, broad, and trite.  No offense to the few good ones, but it’s no secret that today’s newspaper comics page leaves much to be desired, to a large majority of readers.  This is mainly due to the familiarity of old comics started in the early 1900s and the profitability of “safe,” broad comics that appeal to the widest audience, which usually comes at the cost of risk and/or originality.

There is an ongoing print vs. web debate on sites like The Daily Cartoonist, where webcomickers argue that online comics are the future of the medium (that print comics are going to die with newspapers), and syndicated comickers hold to their belief that people will always want a printed page of comics that syndicates have chosen for them.

In a little jab by webcomickers, a trending topic on Twitter was “#ifitweresyndicated,” where webcomickers watered down their comics to syndicate standards and posted the resulting comics.

Here is my submission, if Edmund Finney’s Quest to Find the Meaning of Life were syndicated now (click each to view larger):

Syndicated Today

And here, after 25 years of being syndicated:

After 25 years

And finally, nearing my retirement:

Ready to retire

…that is, if I didn’t have my son and/or grandson take over my comic once I stopped.

I should also mention that this whole concept was started by Jeph Jacques of Questionable Content.