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I'm not sure about those two particular strips. InOrder dates their strips, Daily does not. Jucika ran for 13 years, JucikaInOrder uses this header which summarizes her design changes: It also appears to tell a tragedy if you read it clockwise...
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Doomykins posted:Jucika ran for 13 years, JucikaInOrder uses this header which summarizes her design changes: That's adorable thanks.
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Mikl posted:This of course was more than ten years before Patreon. I honestly don't know if "webcomic author" was a viable profession back in the early 'aughts; even now, unless you're super big, making a webcomic usually isn't enough to make a living off of. Some creators had luck with merchandise, but that was also harder to do with fewer options for printing books, shirts, that kind of thing. One thing that caught on was a proto-Patreon arrangement where creators asked fans to donate a large enough lump sum to cover a year's salary. I'm pretty sure R.K. Milholland of Something Positive was the first to do it: quote:Something Positive by R.K. Milholland is one of the most well-known webcomics on the Internet. I enjoy the art, and the writing is great as well. However, Something Positive is also known for R.K.'s infamous fundraiser back in 2004. A reader complained about a lack of updates to the strip, and R.K. responded by daring his readers to donate to the strip so that he could do it full-time and not miss an update. Although his original plan was just to hush the critics (see the full story in the FAQ on his site here), much to his surprise his readers DID respond, and in a month he earned the equivalent to his salary at the time! Many webcomics have tried to follow suit, but not many have been able to match that incredible feat. And I remember Mookie of Dominic Deegan doing the same thing a year or two after. People would also do up-front pre-orders to cover the cost of a print run in a kind of Kickstarter-esque business model to gauge interest. The danger of doing this, though, is Paypal could and did flag someone's account for fraudulent activity with the sudden surge of cash. I want to say Girly's artist got burned by this, but I can't find anything on a quick google with hazy search terms. So, long story short, some people could manage a living from webcomics, but it was a different environment 20 years ago. This is just going off of my memory as a hobbyist who's mostly on the outside looking in at these things.
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This was really informative, thanks! 
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kidcoelacanth posted:jucika bout to gently caress a snowman That's cold man.
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Kennel posted:Dustin A friend of mine's dad had his doctor tell him to eat better or else. His wife spent 2-3 years cooking every meal for him, good carbs, vegetables at every meal, low-fat protein. Putting SO MUCH labor into keeping this man alive. And every night he'd eat about two bites of what she fixed, drive down to McDonald's and eat whatever he wanted sitting in the driveway. Stroked out at 60, sat in a wheelchair for about 5 years, then died. I bet I've thought about that man twice a week for 10 years.
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Mercury Hat posted:Back this early, the brass ring for a lot of people was a newspaper syndication, banner ads still had a few years to go before they were profitable and bandwidth was a lot more expensive. A popular comic linking to a lesser known one could crash its website from the traffic influx. Some people could make a go of it; Scott Kurtz leaned hard into the merchandising aspect early on enough to make a difference. Then of course there's Penny Arcade and PAX, which is like winning webcomic Powerball.
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Vintage Valiant (Mar. 18, 1945)  The Medieval Castle (Mar. 18, 1945) 
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Crab Dad posted:That's cold man. Yes, man cold. But woman hot! (sorry) Transmodiar posted:Modesty Blaise And Aleta continues to own. About to die of dehydration (lol no way) and completely undisturbed  Classic Zits  All three of these are adorable IMO Brenda Starr, 8/2/69 (nice)  Country niece? Think Abretha had a kid and, shockingly, didn’t give her a pun name?
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Mämmilä (October 3, 1992) Tenavatähti was a kid's singing talent show that ran 1990-1995. It was criticized for the choice of songs that often were more serious and adult-oriented than lighter children's songs, referenced here by the boy singing Mustasukkaisuutta by Olavi Virta, a dramatic song about jealousy and romantic longing.
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F Minus Mark Trail  Mary Worth  Eating pizza like humans do.  The Phantom  Pooch Cafe  Rex Morgan MD  This woman is pissing me off. Andertoons  Apartment 3-G 
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Darthemed posted:Docks Aaaaand, because it’s relevant, I also found this article facing the comics page last night:  The “bread basket” initiative profiled here was the Black Panther’s free breakfast program, spearheaded by Fred Hampton and supported by the multiracial mutual aid group comprised of what the CPD called gangs. What would later be (sometimes demeaningly) referred to as Rev Jackson’s “Rainbow Coalition” was made up of the Young Patriots, a Northside group of largely white Appalachian migrants to Chicago; the Young Lords, a Puerto Rican community group based in Humboldt Park in the near west side of the city; and of course the Black Panther Party under the leadership of Fred Hampton, who convinced the Keystone Rangers and several other Black Southside criminal groups to put turf wars aside and contribute to this nascent mutual aid society. For very mysterious (see: racist) reasons, the Tribune here completely ignores the Black Panthers and the Rainbow Coalition. Rev Jackson, however, had and has an innate talent for garnering attention from the press, often at the expense of allowing them to ignore the important intersectional efforts of Fred Hampton et al. To this day, many Black Chicagoans (and I assume Americans, but I can only speak for Chicago) still consider Jesse Jackson a sellout and worse for this reason. Four months and two days after this article was published, Fred Hampton was asassinated by the FBI while sleeping in his bed next to his pregnant girlfriend. He was 21 years old. His murder was committed under the auspices of COINTELPRO, and although the FBI informant who sold him out (the Judas of the recent movie) has never been publicly named, many believe he was betrayed by Bobby Rush, a 20+ year Congressman who is still serving. Bibliotechno Music fucked around with this message at 18:52 on May 13, 2021 |
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Huxley posted:A friend of mine's dad had his doctor tell him to eat better or else. His wife spent 2-3 years cooking every meal for him, good carbs, vegetables at every meal, low-fat protein. Putting SO MUCH labor into keeping this man alive. And every night he'd eat about two bites of what she fixed, drive down to McDonald's and eat whatever he wanted sitting in the driveway. But now here he is looking for a new scale and planning on when he can eat junk food.
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Presto posted:There was a Dustin strip a year or two ago where Ed's doctor flat out told him if he didn't lose weight he might drop dead at any moment. It really made me appreciate all the times the women in my life have put extra work into keeping me alive.
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Bibliotechno Music posted:Any idea on the year for this? Boondocks is set in the suburbs of Chicago (Lake Forest specifically, IIRC) so I’m curious if this is a joke about the Rev JJ replacing Gene Siskel on Siskel & Ebert. 2002 was my guess, and sure enough, that's when Sweet Home Alabama came out.
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2017 Spiderman 1979 comics      Locher Tracy  Origins of the Sunday Comics  The Lockhorns  Footrot Flats 
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Mikl posted:Classic Kevin & Kell in: webcomics, am I right? (April 16-22, 2001)
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George King you do know people can grow or shave a moustache
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Zereth posted:where are you getting your oil from, creepy animal hellworld people Massive corn subsidies, as God intended.
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In today's Blueberry: Blueberry forgets that honesty is the best policy, or See what you get by relying on Graig?! Also - the original page had Graig stating that this predicament of him being in such danger so close to camp was 'ironic' which I editorialized because it IS NOT ironic, thank you very much!, or It's all Greek to me, Quanah   
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Moomin and the Golden Tail, aka: Moomin becomes an Influencer Heed Snufkin Moomin, he got burned running a thirst trap account, and realized that people are far more interested in the fact that you're popular, than that you're a person. (Also he had some extremely awkward encounters with people who couldn't separate their parasocial relationship from reality, like that time a lady cornered him in a diner and demanded he photograph her.) SubNat fucked around with this message at 23:24 on May 13, 2021 |
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Bibliotechno Music posted:Brenda Starr, 8/2/69 (nice) A bit startling to see how Messick's art had deteriorated from the 1940s.... but then, she was 63 at that point. And still better than late-stage Frank Bolle! Peeyu! 2/25-27/43   
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And He Did! (May 27, 1918) Outbursts of Everett True (July 14, 1918)  Banana Oil! (April 25, 1924)  Gay and Her Gang (July 2, 1929)  Oaky Doaks (December 3, 1935)  Mopsy (February 1, 1937)  Dark Laughter (September 8, 1945)  "They must'a got Old Bootsie's laundry mixed up with the Wac's!" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_Army_Corps Those Were the Days (April 30, 1953)  Wee Pals (August 21, 1965) 
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Sally Forth Pearls Before Swine  Skippy (October 9, 1933)  Peanuts (May 16, 1974)  Funky Winkerbean  COVIDshaft  Mutt and Jeff  Rip Haywire  Thimble Theater (December 13, 1937)  Out Our Way (August 10-12, 1936)    Toonerville Folks (August 6-8, 1917)    Dok's "Working His Way Down The List" Duck (August 8, 1913) 
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Kind of want to see postwar Everett True coming home from work to find seventeen different victims of shell shock waiting on his porch with tire irons, purposeful intent, and big warm welcoming smiles.
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Slammy posted:Outbursts of Everett True (July 14, 1918) You can be declared unfit for duty with flat feet and still dance if you feel like it. Drakyn posted:Kind of want to see postwar Everett True coming home from work to find seventeen different victims of shell shock waiting on his porch with tire irons, purposeful intent, and big warm welcoming smiles. He walks through the ghosts of the men he sent to their deaths in Europe unawares of their haunting. Dies old and angry a decade or two later.
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Slammy posted:Dark Laughter (September 8, 1945) he rocks it Drakyn posted:Kind of want to see postwar Everett True coming home from work to find seventeen different victims of shell shock waiting on his porch with tire irons, purposeful intent, and big warm welcoming smiles. that'd be great.
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MariusLecter posted:You can be declared unfit for duty with flat feet and still dance if you feel like it. I think it was more that he was dancing with the girlfriend of a soldier.
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Vargo posted:Breaking Cat News I appreciate this. Right after I got my second COVID shot, while still hanging out for the 15 minute observation time, I actually got really light-headed. It wasn't because of the actual shot, but because after a year of always wondering if I was about to get sick and having to potentially expose myself to it on the regular (high-five to all my fellow essentials here in the comics thread!), I was finally getting some degree of protection. It was a bit overwhelming, in that moment, but in a good way. Go for it, Jeremy. Waiting in uncertainty at the hospital is awful. Any distraction is welcome. God speed. Bibliotechno Music posted:Classic Zits That middle one warms my heart  Jeremy is a good boy. Oh, ew. 
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Slammy posted:Banana Oil! (April 25, 1924) "Blankety-Blank mother fucker!!!" Old School Peanuts (Sep 21, 1952)  Calvin and Hobbes (Jun 5-6, 1989)   Robbie and Bobby   Support Jason's Patreon (and see new My Dad is Draculas) here. readingatwork fucked around with this message at 05:19 on May 14, 2021 |
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