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Online Cartoonist Finds Financial Success Offline
destinyland writes "The first collection of Perry Bible Fellowship comics has racked up pre-sales of $300,000 due to its huge online following. Within seven weeks the volume required a third printing. Ironically, the 25-year-old cartoonist speculates people would rather read his arty comics in a book than on a computer screen, and warns that 'There's something wonderful, and soon-to-be mythic, about the printed page...' He also explains the strange anti-censorship crusade in high school that earned him an FBI record!"
Is it just me or are the comics in newspapers COMPLETELY devoid of any humor? I haven't smiled at a comic in years. It's like the newspapers demand trash and get it.
I love PBF and other online comics. They can do or say anything they like without censorship. PBF wouldn't be the same if it couldn't use explicit material.
Now go read a real comic like this one.
Well that's one advantage printed comics have over online ones: immune to Slashdotting.
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Nostalgia's all warm and fuzzy, sure, but eventually people who can't help clinging to the past get old and die, and the rest of us can move on.
"Destroy science and religion. Science would re-emerge exactly the same; but not religion." - Penn Jillette, paraphrased
While I agree with your argument (it's far from everybody who prefers vinyl to CDs or film to digital cameras), I must disagree with the proposition that it's only for nostalgic reasons. Film cameras are still objectively "better" than digital cameras, when you consider contrast and colour-balance and all that. And tube amps certainly have their uses, e.g. if you want the "warm analog" sound (which you can then easily record on to a CD). [By the way: It's not that the "warm analog" sound is a more accurate sound reproduction, it's only there when you abuse the electronics, but it's certainly more pleasant than the failure mode of digital electronics.]
The old saying "they don't make stuff like this today" is often true. Progress means the price goes down, and the product is thus available for more consumers, but still good enough for most. Some people however, are willing to pay extra, either in money or convenience, in order to get the "best", which often are what they made in the old days.
However, other things are better explained through fashion. People don't by vinyl because it's better. People buy vinyl for the same reason your grandfather always used a tie. It's the fashion.
Definition: "Bigot is often used as a pejorative term against a person who is obstinately devoted to prejudices even when these views are challenged or proven to be false or not universally applicable or acceptable."
...", it's "You're an idiot - just fucking stupid." Ditto for 'My god lived, then died, then was reborn, for your right to eat shellfish which is no-longer bad!"
Challenge the belief that all religion is false. Until then, the belief that it is a joke does seem universally acceptable.
Religious people think that because crazy opinions are everywhere (for instance, that Adam Sandler is funny) that their crazy ideas must be just the same, and accepted as valid alternatives. Not at all. Religious people assert fact - that their god exists and their holy book is right. You can't disprove that Adam Sandler is funny because humor is subjective. You can disprove any religious assertions made, because they aren't opinion. They're incorrect fact.
Anyways. Insulting religious people is good. They're stupid and need to be made to realize it, if only so that they slink away from society and don't try to poison more minds with their trash. It's like insulting people who spout KKK filth - cut and belittle them and their opinions until they're ashamed of how people make them feel. The correct answer to "Black are subhuman" isn't "Oh I can see how you might think that, but really
If the person drops the beliefs, they might not be a permanent waste of skin. Until then, they're just lying to you about their sky fairies, or the inferiority of the black man, etc.
If someone persists in believing something obviously wrong you should think less of them. They're either stupid, insane, or lying. None of which is a desirable quality.
PBF has been a favorite of mine for a while, now. Here's some others(wiki pages. Paper comic sites(read: syndicate sites) suck more often than not):
Zits
Online comics:Get Fuzzy
Pearls Before Swine
Lio
Schlock Mercenary
Something Positive
Erfworld
Penny Arcade
Irregular Webcomic!
There's a few others, but that's most of them.