Kristan's outfit

KathleenJ · Post by **KathleenJ** » Mon Sep 16, 2002 1:52 pm

Yes, this is the curse that's been branded onto my head since day one.
I'm not sure how good my stuff actually is, but I do about 99.99% comic work, and 0.01% plugging.
I also feel a little uncomfortable plugging my stuff...I feel like I'm selling out and exploiting something personal.
I find that not much of the general population knows about my comic, but those who like it, like it a lot.
I guess it's not uberimportant to me to be popular, but I'd like to be more so.
And I agree, getting fanmail is the best feeling. In only a few words, it makes hours of work worthwhile.
I've always been antisocial too, and just kind of done my own thing, online and in so called real life. I regret nothing.

EteRock · Post by **EteRock** » Thu Sep 19, 2002 10:24 am

dalhar wrote:
...heh, I'm like the anti-plugger. I find it so hard to plug my own stuff.
I used to be involved in the communities of a couple 'Spot comics, but I kinda let that slip. I should get back into it. I've let myself get really antisocial.
You have the time to please everybody at once?
I've always been very antisocial.
I see from your posts that you do that a lot.

Well if you'll check my file you'll notice that I was declared legaly insane a long time ago.

Really, it's not your fault for being social in ways others don't understand.

I know. Just because I say "hello" by throwing live fish at people they think I'm "crazy" and "dangerous" Feh.

EteRock · Post by **EteRock** » Thu Sep 19, 2002 10:32 am

kathleenJ wrote:Yes, this is the curse that's been branded onto my head since day one.
I'm not sure how good my stuff actually is, but I do about 99.99% comic work, and 0.01% plugging.
I also feel a little uncomfortable plugging my stuff...I feel like I'm selling out and exploiting something personal.
I find that not much of the general population knows about my comic, but those who like it, like it a lot.
I guess it's not uberimportant to me to be popular, but I'd like to be more so.
And I agree, getting fanmail is the best feeling. In only a few words, it makes hours of work worthwhile.
I've always been antisocial too, and just kind of done my own thing, online and in so called real life. I regret nothing.

Hey we should start a support group for cartoonists who are antisocial and don't plug their comic that much if at all.

KathleenJ · Post by **KathleenJ** » Sun Sep 22, 2002 10:01 am

EteRock wrote: Hey we should start a support group for cartoonists who are antisocial and don't plug their comic that much if at all.

But then we'd all consider it a form of pluggery, and nobody would show up!

Justinpie · Post by **Justinpie** » Sun Sep 22, 2002 10:23 am

I have no problem plugging my own comic, when an opportunity presents itself -

http://stanleesleftbuttcheek.keenspace.com

Al_fayyed · Post by **Al_fayyed** » Sun Sep 22, 2002 1:22 pm

I think we need to expand the webcomic paradigm beyond writer/artist or writer n' artist. Seeing as so many of us are "to the beat of our own drummer" Thoreau-style individuals who aren't big on self-promotion, with the added benefit of perfection, we should all add agents to the mix. I know I need someone whose full-time job would be to promote the whole SackofJustice brand (http://www.sackofjustice.com! It's currently being painstakingly redrawn, but the art is good and my rants are really funny! Go now! Love it! Mention to your Hollywood friends that they should give us some cash for the movie rights!) while I, you know, do school and stuff and occasionally actually write the darned thing.

On the Thoreau front, I didn't tick off Emerson so much that he made me live in a shack out back behind his house.

Al_fayyed · Post by **Al_fayyed** » Sun Sep 22, 2002 1:26 pm

I think we need to expand the webcomic paradigm beyond writer/artist or writer n' artist. Seeing as so many of us are "to the beat of our own drummer" Thoreau-style individuals who aren't big on self-promotion, with the added benefit of perfection, we should all add agents to the mix. I know I need someone whose full-time job would be to promote the whole SackofJustice brand (http://www.sackofjustice.com! It's currently being painstakingly redrawn, but the art is good and my rants are really funny! Go now! Love it! Mention to your Hollywood friends that they should give us some cash for the movie rights!) while I, you know, do school and stuff and occasionally actually write the darned thing.

On the Thoreau front, I didn't tick off Emerson so much that he made me live in a shack out back behind his house. He could have been the Kato Kaelin of Transcendentalism, but he screwed it up and ended up living with turtles and not paying his taxes.

- Akhmed

Al_fayyed · Post by **Al_fayyed** » Sun Sep 22, 2002 1:35 pm

Grrr...darned Keenspace forum screwup! Didn't mean to deluge you with my draft, sorry.

KathleenJ · Post by **KathleenJ** » Sun Sep 22, 2002 1:52 pm

I would LOVE a promotional agent.
I find it so hard to promote my stuff...even when I do plug, I feel bad about saying good things about it, like I'm just full of myself and it's not worthy of it.
Also, as for Thoreau, I'm pretty sure when he was off in the woods writing Walden, he was close enough to home that he went back daily for food, laundry, sleep, and to see his mom. As you said, yeah, basically just out playing in the backyard.
Heh. Still more wildernessey than me.

EteRock · Post by **EteRock** » Tue Sep 24, 2002 8:46 am

kathleenJ wrote:
EteRock wrote: Hey we should start a support group for cartoonists who are antisocial and don't plug their comic that much if at all.
But then we'd all consider it a form of pluggery, and nobody would show up!

We could wear bags on our heads and not mention what comics we do!

BTW I like your new avatar. Spoons are cool.

KathleenJ · Post by **KathleenJ** » Sat Sep 28, 2002 10:08 am

SPOON!

Dalhar · Post by **Dalhar** » Sat Sep 28, 2002 1:40 pm

Hey! Is that you?

In case, I kinda figured..
..is that you?

KathleenJ · Post by **KathleenJ** » Sat Sep 28, 2002 1:47 pm

Heh, heck no.
It's from the movie Amelie, which just might be my new favorite.

Everyone go see it, now.

Justinpie · Post by **Justinpie** » Sat Sep 28, 2002 2:51 pm

TOO LATE

KathleenJ · Post by **KathleenJ** » Sat Sep 28, 2002 2:56 pm

Dammit!
*confusion*
I mean, wait, no, that's good!
In fact, I saw it with you, didn't I.
Meh.
Everyone just run three laps, and then you can go home.

Justinpie · Post by **Justinpie** » Sat Sep 28, 2002 2:58 pm

We also watched Steve Martin's The Jerk.

[EDIT] starring Steve Martin.

[EDIT AGAIN] Amelie looks like a vampire in the movie poster.

Justinpie · Post by **Justinpie** » Sat Sep 28, 2002 4:22 pm

EteRock · Post by **EteRock** » Sat Sep 28, 2002 8:10 pm

Behold the power of SPOON!

Steve Martin makes an ugly chick

Kalmazoo702 · Post by **Kalmazoo702** » Sat Sep 28, 2002 8:52 pm

Justinpie · Post by **Justinpie** » Sat Sep 28, 2002 9:19 pm

That is the coolest thing ever, Kal.

And hey - turns out that myth about French women and hairy legs is true.

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