In answer to the subject line -- um, no? :) I'm guessing that's your
belief, anyway. Nice hook.
The Fool wrote:
<<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/17/books/17comi.html?ex=1281931200&en=0
8e3777cc4943486&ei=5090&partner=geartest&emc=rss>>
http://tinyurl.com/djskq (I had problems with a cut URL. I figure
someone else might have, as well.)
As I read the article, I was wondering, "On what planet is this woman
accessing online comics?" My favorites were not mentioned in the least.
<<http://www.websnark.com/archives/2005/08/wow_i_get_to_tr.html>>
...
The effect is an article on webcomics written by someone who hasn't
actually read the comics in question. (She mentions only one webcomic
unreservedly positively -- Count Your Sheep. Which she could read for
free. Nice to know the Times won't spring for a three dollar one month
subscription for her expense account. And also nice to know that she
didn't bother to check around for... oh, I don't know... Webcomics
resources to use in research.)
Of course, in talking about making money -- and the failures of
webcomics to fulfill that promise -- she manages to not talk about PvP,
Penny Arcade, Sluggy Freelance, User Friendly, Ctrl-Alt-Del, Something
Positive, or much of anything else. In other words, she doesn't know
the first thing about the debate of commercial success in webcomics,
much less the topic. She doesn't know the Keenspot model versus Modern
Tales versus Blank Label versus independent sites. She doesn't know the
argument of support versus merchandising support versus subscription
versus micropayments. And it's not like it's hard to find evidence of
those debates. Just going to Scott McCloud's website would do that.
...
Comments:
...
For the record, Sarah Boxer asked for, and received, free press passes
to all the Modern Tales sites while she was writing this article. And
then proceeded to treat the subscription wall as an impenetrable
barrier anyway.
...
On a hunch, I did a little research on this Sarah Boxer person and it
turns out that she's a print cartoonist.
...
Yeah. What they said. I'm wondering if her bias totally got in her way
of writing something *intelligent* on the topic. :P
Thanks for pointing this out to us!
Julia
who should be doing something else right now
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