inkdick: march 15 2009 internet famous lol
So Brett and I had the high honor of being the recent subject of bashing on some no-name forum. I gotta say, this is a first for me (that I know of). I don’t remember what famous webcartoonist said it (maybe it was Kurtz? I can’t remember as I read it a year or two ago) but when you get to a point where strangers are bashing your comic online in some fashion, you have “made it” as a webcartoonist. So THANK YOU internet forum. Oh, and thank you for all the hits. It did wonders for my web-traffic.
Now, I can go off on a long rant about how forums in theory are great (a place for like minded people to share and discuss their ideas) but have over the years devolved into a place of flame wars and hate, but I won’t. Because this shirt by John Campbell says it best.
I’m not letting this get to me. I mean hell, it’s actually really, really funny! I ‘LOLed’ as all the cool internet folks say when I read all the comments against me. Really, it’s not everyday I got bashed by some kid with a Pokemon avatar.
But if I may get serious here for a moment: If you don’t like something, don’t read it and move on to something else. I just don’t think it’s worth the time and energy to go out of your way to bash something as unimportant as a webcomic. Now, if it was something you paid to see or read, I could see why you’d get upset enough to rant on forums. Money wasted, right? But a webcomic is free and it’s not like someone is forcing you to look at my site everyday. I don’t know, it just all seems so silly and pointless. Use that time and energy to do something that is actually important or make this world a better place or make your OWN comic. Or not. It’s your life, do what you want.
And to all you people reading who DO like me and my comic, and there are many, many, many more of you then there are haters, thanks for liking what I do. You liking what I do really means a lot and is part of the reason I go on doing what I do with these comics. Thanks!
March 20th, 2009 at 9:11 pm
. . . hey, 16 people from the CNN blog can’t be wrong . . .
March 20th, 2009 at 9:11 pm
agreed!
March 21st, 2009 at 10:59 am
A lot of the people on there seemed to be looking for a punchline at the end of your comic, but I don’t know why every minicomics have to end with a “ZING!” at the end of every day. You’ve said at the very beginning this was a personal project and a honest, autobiographical one at that, meant to conform to no one’s ideas of how a webcomic should be. After all, if you have people reading your comics (and not just friends and family, but I’ve seen new viewers and artists latch onto inkdick), you must be doing something right.
March 23rd, 2009 at 9:35 pm
Hey, crit happens.