POST WEBCOMICS

[UniversalWorldBaby]

just a tip for anyone who's looking for a new comic to read: http://www.ohnorobot.com/


its like google for comics.



https://killsixbilliondemons.com/

[UniversalWorldBaby]

generally NSFW
https://www.c.urvy.org/?date=20080628

I'm also a fan of Sylvan Migdal, generally:



http://www.sylvanmigdal.com/?ix=og&date=20080528

[don]

I read curvy!!! Fuck I loved that comic back in the day. It was so much weirder / more creative than the other porn strips that all came out around the same time

I wish I could find an archive of Hate Song, if only to post the comic where the guy gets surgically altered to shit out of his pinkie finger, allowing him to shit discretely and in public. there were these little spheres everyone would stick their fingers into and shit together, which still sticks with me. I think they guy who made it might have scrubbed Hate Song from the internet for fear of getting depersoned

[UniversalWorldBaby]

I think they guy who made it might have scrubbed Hate Song from the internet for fear of getting depersoned

I think a lot of webcomics have moved to patreon and other walled gardens now that adblockers and public backlash loom high. I don't blame most authors, honestly. I had a huge fit the other night when I was going through my folder of links only to find most of them were 404'd or the author had moved on. it's a weird time for publishing where there's more content than ever before, but arguably less visible than any time in history. It's like the era of prohibition where speakeasies are all around, yet nobody will claim to know where. Perhaps that's really the way things should be, though? Is it just more interpersonal? I'm not sure.

[containercore]

I think they guy who made it might have scrubbed Hate Song from the internet for fear of getting depersoned

I think a lot of webcomics have moved to patreon and other walled gardens now that adblockers and public backlash loom high. I don't blame most authors, honestly. I had a huge fit the other night when I was going through my folder of links only to find most of them were 404'd or the author had moved on. it's a weird time for publishing where there's more content than ever before, but arguably less visible than any time in history. It's like the era of prohibition where speakeasies are all around, yet nobody will claim to know where. Perhaps that's really the way things should be, though? Is it just more interpersonal? I'm not sure.

There's no quality filter on anything anymore, so the tech positivists will spin it like there's more choice than ever (which is true) but your choice is between mountains of garbage and whatever good shit has been buried somewhere under it. The evil gatekeeping publishers acted as a form of quality control (and they had a vested interest in distributing and promoting it). Now in order to 'make it' you have to be your own producer, do your own advertising, the number of plates you have to spin causes the product itself to get neglected; you have to fight tooth and nail just to get your stuff to rise above the trash pile. The amount of 'clout' you're able to obtain is the main thing a mainstream publisher is looking at these days.

Also more consumer choice isn't even a good thing, it ramps up the buyers' cortisol levels due to everything you now have to comparitively take into account. The stuff about more choice than ever equating to more better than ever is just propaganda by big tech.

That rants kind of unrelated to webcomics though which were always independent. The webcomic model used to be predicated on banner ads, but after some 20 years people realized that no one clicks on them so that business model isn't that useful anymore

[UniversalWorldBaby]

I think they guy who made it might have scrubbed Hate Song from the internet for fear of getting depersoned

I think a lot of webcomics have moved to patreon and other walled gardens now that adblockers and public backlash loom high. I don't blame most authors, honestly. I had a huge fit the other night when I was going through my folder of links only to find most of them were 404'd or the author had moved on. it's a weird time for publishing where there's more content than ever before, but arguably less visible than any time in history. It's like the era of prohibition where speakeasies are all around, yet nobody will claim to know where. Perhaps that's really the way things should be, though? Is it just more interpersonal? I'm not sure.

There's no quality filter on anything anymore, so the tech positivists will spin it like there's more choice than ever (which is true) but your choice is between mountains of garbage and whatever good shit has been buried somewhere under it. The evil gatekeeping publishers acted as a form of quality control (and they had a vested interest in distributing and promoting it). Now in order to 'make it' you have to be your own producer, do your own advertising, the number of plates you have to spin causes the product itself to get neglected; you have to fight tooth and nail just to get your stuff to rise above the trash pile. The amount of 'clout' you're able to obtain is the main thing a mainstream publisher is looking at these days.

Also more consumer choice isn't even a good thing, it ramps up the buyers' cortisol levels due to everything you now have to comparitively take into account. The stuff about more choice than ever equating to more better than ever is just propaganda by big tech.

That rants kind of unrelated to webcomics though which were always independent. The webcomic model used to be predicated on banner ads, but after some 20 years people realized that no one clicks on them so that business model isn't that useful anymore

the visual arts are probably one of areas that this choice paralysis model applies to the least. I'd rather have one thing to eat all day but thousands of comics to choose from. I enjoy exploring the written window into the mind and the less comics I can have the more I feel something is missing. having some sort of central wiki for webcomic hosting would be very useful, desu,