T Campbell's Blog

I'm quite enjoying my time off from blogging and suchlike... it's allowing me to sort out a great many things. But this is a little too important for me not to address...

I'm leaving the role of editor at Graphic Smash.

Tim Demeter, my personal choice, is succeeding me in the role, as he ended up succeeding me at Clickwheel. Might want to keep your eye on this guy.

First some minor stuff: my History of Webcomics Comic-Con panel is Sunday at 10:30 (not 11:30 as previously reported) and Keencast has an interview with me from before I left Clickwheel. And Phil Kahn wants you all to check out his and Rob Balder's I'm Just Drinking page, which includes riffs on lots of comics, including a couple of mine.

Still with me? On we go, then.

These last few days have been a series of goodbyes. Goodbye to Oxford with its seemingly endless bookstores and sleepy intellectualism. Goodbye to England and Paris-- I've tried to see as much of both of you as time and travel budget will allow. It's been awesome.

Goodbye to Chao and Vanessa, the kindly Chinese couple who made me not just a tenant but part of their family, and fellow tenants Kristina, Marva and Tot. Goodbye to the great friends I made through the Internet and saw here in the flesh for the first time (the first, I hope, of many): Alan Dicey, Denise, Wednesday White. Goodbye to Corin and Tag-- I'll miss our conversations about pop culture. Goodbye to William, Mike and Mark... sorry things didn't work out like we hoped.

Goodbye to some old ideas and some old ideals. The controversy surrounding History and my break with Clickwheel have challenged a lot of my old assumptions and made me reconsider my attitude toward webcomics, comics and my own career. I've always believed in personal growth and change-- the first comics story I ever put online had change as its theme.

I haven't completely figured out what all my new positions are-- which is going to mean that at SDCC, I do a fair amount of reminiscing and a lot of listening, not so much with the visionary stuff.

This blog has encouraged me to flirt with self-obsession, and right now, I'm a lot more interested in what other people think. Maybe by the time my own panel gets going, I'll have processed enough of that to figure out where we go next.

I'm not really liking this blog any more, because my beliefs and attitudes are changing and the blog entries tend to remain annoyingly the same. I'm going to take some time off from the Web-- and when I get back, expect a brutal blog-purge of most everything pre-July. (Note: I'll archive the entries in case anyone wants them for research-- do unto others and all that.)

I've resigned Clickwheel, effective immediately, due to a fundamental conflict with management that we just couldn't resolve. I still believe in podcomics as a medium, but can no longer support the company.

That's all for now.