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The argument tha raged subsequent to this provided some of the inspiration for this comic. Thanking y'all!

There kind of already is this for online comics. Modern Tales is an online comic site that requires you to pay to access their archives. The profits (after overhead) are then distributed amongst the artists using the site according to how often each one's works were viewed.

There also is the concept of "premium" specialized online comic hosting. Keenspace offers such a service, as well as the ability for viewers to pay not to see advertisements (User Friendly offers this as well).

Of course, not all online comic artists like to operate under such a scheme. Rocket Box Comics is a site created by a number of artists dedicated to keeping comics freely available online.

In any case, if you like your "local" online artists, support them! I personally have probably sent over $200 to at least 5-7 people in order to support their site, purchase their limited-print books, etc. The best thing you can do for any artist is to support them; some artists even have set threshold where they will just work on comics full-time if they make at least X amount of money per month online.

I thought Troll Tuesday was brought to me by the friendly people at Subway Sandwiches.

Could it be matched by a radio drama of a webcomic that sometimes parodies anime?

Tsunami Channel Radio Drama (current location) (future location)

For those interested, I happen to play the lead male character of Experimental Comic Kotone (Onii-chan) in the scripts and I'm also planning on aiding design of part of the Radio Drama site when relocated. There is a sample script up on the current site for those interested.

Could it be matched by a radio drama of a webcomic that sometimes parodies anime?

Tsunami Channel Radio Drama (current location) (future location)

For those interested, I happen to play the lead male character of Experimental Comic Kotone (Onii-chan) in the scripts and I'm also planning on aiding design of part of the Radio Drama site when relocated. There is a sample script up on the current site for those interested.

... So now I can download that huge pr0n MPEG, and then be automatically fapped for 8 hours? Where do I sign up? =D

Feeding the trolls on their own turf!

10) PCI modem support is fine, they all use Hayes codes. PCI winmodem support is awful, because they're just a DSP on a card. Geez, don't you people know anything? :)

09) Never played Tux Kart.

08) Nautilus is actually a lot better than it used to be. I liked it before but it was slow as the brown stuff that hits cooling things. Now it's actually okay. Try Nautilus 2.x.

07) Thank you, come back when you've decided to make some sense. Perhaps you'd like to read my favorite overtly gay webcomic first.

06) Never used it.

05) Pssh. Remind me why you're not using Windows again? :)

04) Never dealt with BBS systems.

03) I'm using Phoenix right now. Besides, by your argument I'll have to use SOMETHING on my 64-bit systems, right???

02) Debian is actually really good if you use the testing distribution, which has recent packages for everything. Hell, they finally even have 2.4.18 as the kernel in 3.0 stable. Why? What do you think is better, Mandrake? Dammit, LFS all the way!

01) Well, the twelve years of development was trying to twist Mach into something that works :P

Oh, yes. :-)

http://sexylosers.keenspace.com/160.html

http://sexylosers.keenspace.com/160.html

Cost isn't really a factor in coloring an online comic. Time can be an important factor, but in many cases the artist simply prefers to work in black and white. I chose to do my comic in black and white largely because I felt the compositional challenges would be more interesting. I don't really think there's any way to equate color with quality.

Because colouring takes a fair amount of time. Tutorials like the ones on polykarbon help, but sometimes we webcomic people just don't have the time, skill, or inclination.

With most it's a time and skill issue though, most people prefer colour to black and white, I'd imagine. I know it is with me, the few times my partner and I have attempted colour it's almost doubled our comic creation time.

--Anonymous And Cowardly Cabbit
http://mischief.keenspace.com

Exploitation now is a dead comic. He's released a book. Also, i'd like to note that most of those are hosted by KeenSpot, the Premium version of Keenspace, a comic hosting site. Keenspace provides free hosting to anyone, and for some reason they even accepted mine! Anywhoo, i think that lethaldoses is with keenspot, not sure. RocketBox may be a co-location for my comic in the future.

Several years ago, some online comic artists banded together and formed Keenspot (and its sibling network Keenspace). Hosting, forums, artist control of whether pop-up ads (vs. only banner ads) appear for any given comic, optional subscriptions for ad-free reading; good stuff.

Among my favorites there: General Protection Fault, Help Desk, It's Walky (formerly Roomies), Lost and Found, Real Life, and Schlock Mercenary.

Sorry. That should be Zero-over-one not one-over-zero. Oops. :)

My absolute favorite web comic has got to be Freefall. Great characters, good story, and very witty.

Or if you want something slightly more off-beat, try Zero-over-one. Unconventional in the wackiest sense. :-)

Actually Keenspace has always been in second while Keenspot gets all the server and bandwith... can't really blame them since Keenspot is a collection a carefully chosen comics has opposed to Keenspace where anyone can get an account. Web comics are nice... but they are becoming an addiction

Again, these are EXCLUSIVES

Caps lock means you're so sure of the exclusivity of those titles...

Battlefield: 1942

1942 was on the NES.

Buffy The Vampire Slayer

Fact: Willow has appeared in an NES game.

Ninja Gaiden

Not an exclusive. It has appeared on the NES. It's also coming to the Game Boy Advance, in a slightly modified form (different story because of unavailability of characters for licensing, but classic Ninja Gaiden gameplay is still there) as Return of the Ninja. ("Gaiden" means "sequel".)

Robotech

Fact: 1-800-Robotech was the phone number for Quarterdeck Software, publisher of the QEMM memory manager for DOS. US telephones don't have Q or Z in the mnemonic labels on their number keys, which is why Blizzard's American phone number had the word "SNOW" at one time.

Superman: Man of Steel

Superman appeared in a rather crappy (to put it lightly) Nintendo 64 title. What makes this new Xbox version so much better? (question, not flamebait)

Unreal Championship

Isn't that just UT or UT2003 adapted for a console? If so, I might as well run UT on my Quake/MAME cabinet.

WWF RAW 2

Panda wrestling?

Halo alone is worth the price of the [Xbox] console right there.

Super Smash Bros. Melee is worth the price of a GameCube console right there, and in a couple months, the GameCube will be getting its own Halo killer, called Metroid Prime.

If I had to choose between Halo and 50 PS2 games, the choice would be clear.

I thought of another bad PS/2 joke. Once Bochs is ported to PS2 Linux, does that mean that the Sony PS2 can in effect become a PS-Slash-2?

People blamed other people for what happened. The usual suspects were, of course, sinners. But one unusual suspect was the late Benjamin Franklin. Some people believed that Franklin's experiments with lightning rods disrupted heat from the sun.

But Ben Franklin would still figure into all this; as the man who would help provide an explanation. In 1920 American weather researcher William Humphreys read some writings by Ben Franklin. The statesman wrote about the cold summer of 1783. He blamed volcanic dust coming from Iceland for the drop in temperature. From this Humphreys was able to make the connection between summerless 1816 and the explosion of Mount Tambora.

Sexy Losers
Ghastly's Annie the hardcore gamer
T.A.Vision
Tangs Comics
Sunday Morning Coffee(on hold)

Sexy Losers
Ghastly's Annie the hardcore gamer
T.A.Vision
Tangs Comics
Sunday Morning Coffee(on hold)

Sexy Losers
Ghastly's Annie the hardcore gamer
T.A.Vision
Tangs Comics
Sunday Morning Coffee(on hold)

Sexy Losers
Ghastly's Annie the hardcore gamer
T.A.Vision
Tangs Comics
Sunday Morning Coffee(on hold)

Sexy Losers
Ghastly's Annie the hardcore gamer
T.A.Vision
Tangs Comics
Sunday Morning Coffee(on hold)

Sexy Losers
Ghastly's Annie the hardcore gamer
T.A.Vision
Tangs Comics
Sunday Morning Coffee(on hold)

Strange Candy: Okashina Okashi
Tsunami Channel

Strange Candy: Okashina Okashi
Tsunami Channel

Ok. That's it. No more Linux for me.

Here, have graphical representations of before and after Sony got involved.

Here, have graphical representations of before and after Sony got involved.

My online comic, The Very Wrong Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, has my e-mail address on it. However, it's set up so that you need to select it from a JavaScript dropdown to connect.
Here's the code I use (edited to show up here..the changes should be obvious):

[SCRIPT LANGUAGE="javascript" SRC="http://wrongsonic.keenspace.com/images/script s/mylinks.js"] on the main site, and...

function goto_URL(object) {
window.location.href = object.options[object.selectedIndex].value;
}

document.write('[OPTION VALUE="mailto:uce@ftc.gov"]Contact the Artist[\/OPTION]');

(with uce@ftc.gov replaced, of course, with my e-mail address) in mylinks.js. Obviously, it's in a dropdown of links, so if you have something like that, it'll work. I don't know much JavaScript, but I'm sure it's easy enough to create a button to click on that'll do the same thing.

Man this is going to suck for people who like to link a lot.

Honestly, I think that is one of the things that makes web cartoons better than print-only comics: They aren't controlled by money.

Syndicated cartoonists must adhere to some pretty strict guidelines. Their comics are printed in mainstream newspapers, where using the word "gosh" will get you angry letters from blue-haired grannies all around the country.

Web comics are created under no such restrictions. Anything is fair game- mainstream demographics be damned! As a result, the average webcomic is much more interesting and daring (if much less polished looking) than say, Marmaduke or the Family Circus.

Anyone can create a web comic- there is even a webhost, keenspace, which will host anyone's comic for free.

Art can only thrive and evolve when there are artists out there who do it purely for the sake of art. If you do it for the money, you aren't so much an artist, you are an entertainer (which isn't to say that you can't make an entertaining comic).

Drake Emko
hackles.org (nerdy animal fun!)

Your audience doesn't have to go to a store or track down a copy. You don't have to pay for publishing and word of mouth can spread your web address quite quickly if the content is good.

Speaking of which (cheesy plug in effect):
http://miracle.keenspace.com/d/20010910.html

Any genre and any style can be represented because it's not limited to shelf space or a particular audience.

--- Jim Zubkavich
The Makeshift Miracle
updated on M/W/F
http://www.makeshiftmiracle.com

I've been reading several keenspot/keenspace comics for a while now. Their model, as far as I can tell, is to give free web space to online comic artists, along with some helpful stuff, like scripts to archive old comics and post new comics. The normal site seems to make revenue off of banner ads, but they have several other revenue making ideas, and presumably they share the profits with the artists. They print up and market collection books, or periodical issues, as well as offering premium no-ads service to people who want it.

I have no idea how well they are doing, but I frequent:
www.rpgworldcomic.com
www.crfh.net
www.bobbins.org

and a couple others.

-If

Stalag '99, my comic strip, has a send-off of the old classic here.

for more information, click here

• MacHall
  
• Penny Arcade
  
• Megatokyo
  

BTW, My favorites are probably: Alice!, Ozy and Millie, Clan of the Cats, Free Fall, CRFH, Lean on Me, and Okashina Okashi to name just a few. I don't see playing for webcomics any different they paying to support other online communities. I might even subscribe to Slashdot if they started charging. :)

BTW, My favorites are probably: Alice!, Ozy and Millie, Clan of the Cats, Free Fall, CRFH, Lean on Me, and Okashina Okashi to name just a few. I don't see playing for webcomics any different they paying to support other online communities. I might even subscribe to Slashdot if they started charging. :)

Ok, you have a point -- 2 points. The current storyline is so-so, maybe even sub-par. But "Kitten" and "Bug/Witch/Robot" were brilliant and beautifully excecuted. Even wonders like Bloom County and Calvin & Hobbes had their off weeks.

As for Keenspot, you're right... they're growing increasingly well-known, etc. And that's not a bad thing: lots of their strips are great, and they've gained mass noteriety (not least for their Keenspace program) in a way Fleen and Big Panda never really did.

I invite all readers of this nonsense to go read Blue Neon. It's got 200% of your U.S. RDA of pure wierdness.

Its quirky and took a bit of getting into, but looks as if its going to be great. Lots of potential.

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With so many cartoons out there, why do so many of them suck? For starters we have: Dave, Cathy, Family Circus and Spiderman! I mean, if these people just looked around they could find some good cartoons like Penny Arcade, Sluggy Freelance, and some of the stuff on Keenspace, like MacHall. I'm sure there are a bunch of starving comic writers who are dying for syndication while a lot of cartoons that really suck are being published.

Life on Forbez

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Since McCloud's recent strip, it's been suggested that Keenspot Comics (home of half the comics listed here) start this micropayment trend. However, I think this would be a really bad move. As it has been stated, this would only work for comics that are already popular and would surely stunt the growth of even popular comics. What new reader would pay for Nukees when Goats is available for free? Even though Keenspot and Keenspace house most of the webcomics out there, only the most die-hard fans will bother paying when all other web content is free. For artists that have worked for years for little to no pay, I think readership and artistic integrity is still more important than cash.

I think the solution, if the advertising market continues to die, is "Pay for convenience," not for content. We may, for instance, institute subscription rates for email delivery, or even home paper delivery (would you pay for a monthly digest of your favorite webcomic snailmailed to you?)

The real question is what will people pay for? Will people pay for convenience? It's difficult to tell. It was mentioned that Carson Fire of Elf Life has recently offered a cast shirt for sale, but it was not mentioned that few have bought that shirt. I've seen lots of shirts go unsold even though reader polls have shown high interest. So it turns out readers are lying when they say they'll pay for something? I think so. That music label buying Napster, for instance, is convinced that 1/2 of the current users will pay a $15/month fee for its use, based on a poll they conducted. How many of you believe that?

So what will people pay for? That's the real question.

Darren "Gav" Bleuel
Keenspot Comics
Nukees, an atomic comic.

Lates...
Darren "Gav" Bleuel
Nukees, an atomic comic

Perhaps it isn't a question of what motivates kids to become violent, but who's ignoring it when it happens....

Blue Neon - yet another messed up online comic.

Hmm, I wonder where I can get some of that interesting rubber compound stuff. The reprogrammed guts of a Billy Bass could be potentially interesting reincarnated as, say, a singing rubber cowpie. (Imagine being able to drive off unwanted relatives with one of those...)

I've often wondered exactly what AOL and Time Warner hope to gain from merging. Their early press releases on the issue stated that they wanted to do it so Time Warner could use AOL's 'net infrastructure to distribute media via the Internet... but now it raises interesting questions over cable Internet access. Doesn't Time Warner own a few cable companies here and there? I live in an area where cable Internet access is unavailable because the local cable monopoly, AT&T Cable, hasn't decided to roll out Internet service yet. Could Time Warner cable (whatever their cable divixion is) users be forced to get cable service only through America Online?

Blue Neon - a wonderfully insane online comic