Today Is Online Comics Day and Free Comic Book Day...
And I barely knew it.
You know what's really sad? I walked into the comic-book store today and picked up 52 #52 (which had been delayed in my store), then walked right back out again without even noticing that there were free comics for Free Comic Book Day. The poor retailer asked me "are you sure that's all you want?" And I said "Yep," thinking, Boy, he's pushy today for some reason.
I also thought tomorrow was Mother's Day until about 15 minutes ago. Reading 52 has clearly broken my sense of linear time.
But more on that later. Today, most of my promotion for webcomics not my own was centered on getting things set up at Broken Frontier. It's been a busy week for webcomics on the site:
1) Introduced "The Daily Read" feature to Broken Frontier. This feature is all about throwing spotlights onto individual webcomics achievements, mostly storytelling achievements because that's how I swing, but as widely ranging quality stuff as I can manage. UPDATE: This quickly became the weekly "Read Along With Me" because every once in a while I do get too ambitious for my own good.
2) More podcast interviews! Got 'em with Maritza Campos, Ryan Estrada and Phil and Kaja Foglio.
If you're a fan of Campos' like I am, her interview is essential listening: in it, she discusses her attitude toward her characters and toward the prospect of ending her series. Hearing it will make you more fearful for the characters' future, not less...
Ryan Estrada is rivaled only by Scott McCloud as the world's most intriguing traveling cartoonist (and Scott's adventures are lasting a year while Ryan's have so far lasted his whole adult life). The world is richer to have him in it.
And the Foglios are two of the only people who can really claim to be veterans of the print world and highly successful in the online one. To anyone who cares about what the different formats mean for business and creativity, their opinion matters.
3) And the "This Month In Webcomics" feature, which I already covered here.
Promoting webcomics besides my own is sort of most of my job at Broken Frontier right now, so really, it feels like I'm cheating here to excuse how little I got done today.
I put the finishing touches on a couple of short works about Penny Arcade and Diesel Sweeties, which I'll be releasing as part of a larger project later this month. They're meant as tributes, hope they'll be seen that way! (He said, ducking.)
And I'm sending out an e-mail tonight as part of a campaign to help out the WCCAs. But don't be too proud of me about that either: I've been dawdling on it for months until Online Comics Day shamed me back into action.
So... odds and ends. Keep your eye on the main site for the holiday... I betcha they'll report on some real contributions next week.
You know what's really sad? I walked into the comic-book store today and picked up 52 #52 (which had been delayed in my store), then walked right back out again without even noticing that there were free comics for Free Comic Book Day. The poor retailer asked me "are you sure that's all you want?" And I said "Yep," thinking, Boy, he's pushy today for some reason.
I also thought tomorrow was Mother's Day until about 15 minutes ago. Reading 52 has clearly broken my sense of linear time.
But more on that later. Today, most of my promotion for webcomics not my own was centered on getting things set up at Broken Frontier. It's been a busy week for webcomics on the site:
1) Introduced "The Daily Read" feature to Broken Frontier. This feature is all about throwing spotlights onto individual webcomics achievements, mostly storytelling achievements because that's how I swing, but as widely ranging quality stuff as I can manage. UPDATE: This quickly became the weekly "Read Along With Me" because every once in a while I do get too ambitious for my own good.
2) More podcast interviews! Got 'em with Maritza Campos, Ryan Estrada and Phil and Kaja Foglio.
3) And the "This Month In Webcomics" feature, which I already covered here.
Promoting webcomics besides my own is sort of most of my job at Broken Frontier right now, so really, it feels like I'm cheating here to excuse how little I got done today.
I put the finishing touches on a couple of short works about Penny Arcade and Diesel Sweeties, which I'll be releasing as part of a larger project later this month. They're meant as tributes, hope they'll be seen that way! (He said, ducking.)
And I'm sending out an e-mail tonight as part of a campaign to help out the WCCAs. But don't be too proud of me about that either: I've been dawdling on it for months until Online Comics Day shamed me back into action.
So... odds and ends. Keep your eye on the main site for the holiday... I betcha they'll report on some real contributions next week.
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10:17 PM
2 Comments:
Even I knew it was free comic book day!!! I'm disappointed, T. :)
Have you seen Spidey 3 yet? We must discuss.
Heh, not yet... I've been waiting for my brother to get back on Thursday so we can see it together, but he may be tied up anyway. In any case, I'll see it this week. :)
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