Anybody Using It Yet?
ComicSpace, of course. For the five of you that haven’t gone to take a look in the week since launch, it’s a comics-themed MySpace with (for now, at least) a low incidence of blaring music, hideous color combinations, whiney teen attention whores, and Rupert Murdoch.
What it does have is a bemused creator who can’t quite believe that more than 4200 people have taken out accounts so far (it was supposed to be a limited release), or that he racked up more than 100,000 hits in the first 24 hours (pretty impressive, considering that he hasn’t implemented the key These Are The Comics I Like feature, and didn’t figure he’d need dedicated hosting or bandwidth-cost-offsetting revenue quite this soon).
Still, I wonder if a social-networking site devoted to comics fans is going to be long-term viable … let’s be honest with ourselves … how often do you use the words “social networking” and “comics fans” in the same sentence? Aaaand the time to the first angry comment starts — NOW!
As soon as I wipe my strudel-stained hands on my sloppy pot-belly, comb my wispy crop of facial hair and fix my coke-bottle glasses with a piece of masking tape, I am going to KICK YOUR ASS Tyrrell.
By Paul Southworth on 12.12.06 10:59 am
Finally! I place where I can stalk like-minded people!
BEFRIEND! I mean befriend!
By suiz on 12.12.06 11:07 am
So where’s the Fleen account?
By Wiz Rollins on 12.12.06 11:24 am
Hey, what social life I have revolves around comics and other geeky pursuits!
By Joshua Macy on 12.12.06 11:35 am
I thought you had to be invited.
By Paul Gadzikowski on 12.12.06 11:54 am
Finally, a website where I can promote my webcomic to thousands of other webcomic artists.
By Orneryboy on 12.12.06 2:50 pm
ZING!
REALITY-BURN!
By Paul Southworth on 12.12.06 2:52 pm
No, you’ve got it backwards Orneryboy.
It’s a website where thousands of other webcomic artists can promote their webcomics to you.
By Jeff Lowrey on 12.12.06 6:33 pm
Did someone set the Honesty Monster loose?
It smells like TRUTH in here.
By Paul Southworth on 12.12.06 10:06 pm
When Warren E first mentioned this, it said it was “Myspace for Comics People.”
I turned off the computer and went for a walk.
By jeffrey on 12.12.06 10:06 pm
Next up is ComicsCupid, where webcomic artists can fill out personality tests, meet, and exchange venereal diseases (and crippling social phobias).
By J. Jacques on 12.12.06 10:28 pm
Yay! The webcomic promotion circle-jerk has a new outlet!
Oh who am I kidding? I’m on it too.
By Ben on 12.12.06 10:28 pm
s/w/24 m4wookiee
Yeah, I signed up.
I don’t foresee this having a lot of staying power, but for the moment I get to pretend all these small press publishers actually give a shit about me and my eight word profile.
With any luck, I’ll snag a reader or two before the wave crashes.
By Zach on 12.13.06 3:15 am
What are you talking about, Jeph? Don’t you know how many virgins are in webcomics? Vernereal diseases…yeah right.
By Sean C on 12.13.06 8:15 pm
I don’t understand the elitism guys. It’s this social networking thing that got everyone their audiences to begin with. No more or less worthy than the other methods of attention-getting like a toplist or messageboard.
As for the long term viability of it, adding the power to blog/ post new material will assure it’ll get used by some. Cynic that I am, though, I predict it will become like that previous bandwagon everyone jumped on, the wiki at Comixpedia.org: It’ll serve as a neglected reference tool for everyone who remembers it’s there.
By The William G on 12.14.06 7:36 am
William, I think we’re all just riffing on the fact that the webcomics community is incestuous enough as it is. We need a way to get the message out to the Normals, not advertise to more of our own kind.
I mean, it’s a nice little website and all, but if webcomics had a logo, it would be a snake eating another snake, eating another snake who is having a hard time getting a girlfriend.
By Paul Southworth on 12.14.06 9:46 am
Still waiting for my confirmation or activate or whatever email…
By Matt Buchwald on 12.14.06 3:05 pm
“I mean, it’s a nice little website and all, but if webcomics had a logo, it would be a snake eating another snake, eating another snake who is having a hard time getting a girlfriend. ”
Paul – if you make this, I will tattoo it on my FACE.
By Zach on 12.14.06 4:51 pm
Paul fails to comprehend that, given the sheer number of extant webcomics out there, there are in fact thousands of entirely separate “webcomics communities”. I mean, there are at least five on KeenSpace/Spot/Whatever alone.
He is, unfortunately, right that all of them are horribly over-incestuous.
By Jeff Lowrey on 12.14.06 9:57 pm
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