1. Moore here.

    Moore here.

  2. I was brainstorming with my friend Amy, and we came up with a bunch more: People either think what you do is awesome or scratch their head and walk away Nobody expects to pay for it Involves lots of berating Nobody gets the dress code

    I was brainstorming with my friend Amy, and we came up with a bunch more:

    • People either think what you do is awesome or scratch their head and walk away
    • Nobody expects to pay for it
    • Involves lots of berating
    • Nobody gets the dress code

  3. Call me a crumudgeon, but this has me both excited and pissed off at THE SAME TIME. On the one hand, yes, yay, Veer is acknowledging my shit. Designers are seeing it! On some level, that’s great. But they are doing so with an image that doesn’t link to anything, and has a URL slapped on it from FAILblog (at the bottom, just as big as my URL on the top). First off, I ACKNOWLEDGE THIS IS NOT A BIG DEAL. But having seen this happen with many of my comics, it’s getting annoying to see this pop up, torn from any link back to my site. That means that Veer is getting traffic and building a following by sharing my (and many other people’s) images.  It’s only a few hundred people, but I have to wonder. How many people are acknowledging the joke, looking at the URL at the top, and then going to the site? I bet you the answer is “none”. That’s how the Internet works, I know and accept that. But forgive me for being a little peeved at the number of times I see my shit basically being used as other people’s content, with no effort to compensate me not with money, but with the common courtesy of a link back to my site. A link back from Veer would go a long way, their audience is very much my core audience. The Internet has become largely a series of echo chambers, all people looking for content and instead of creating their own making sites around curating the work of others. This is largely connected to why memes are spreading as fast as they are these days, guaranteed. I’d send them the “See something? Cite something.” chart Caldwell and I did, but they’d probably do the same thing with that one too.

    Call me a crumudgeon, but this has me both excited and pissed off at THE SAME TIME. On the one hand, yes, yay, Veer is acknowledging my shit. Designers are seeing it! On some level, that’s great. But they are doing so with an image that doesn’t link to anything, and has a URL slapped on it from FAILblog (at the bottom, just as big as my URL on the top).

    First off, I ACKNOWLEDGE THIS IS NOT A BIG DEAL. But having seen this happen with many of my comics, it’s getting annoying to see this pop up, torn from any link back to my site. That means that Veer is getting traffic and building a following by sharing my (and many other people’s) images. 

    It’s only a few hundred people, but I have to wonder. How many people are acknowledging the joke, looking at the URL at the top, and then going to the site? I bet you the answer is “none”. That’s how the Internet works, I know and accept that. But forgive me for being a little peeved at the number of times I see my shit basically being used as other people’s content, with no effort to compensate me not with money, but with the common courtesy of a link back to my site. A link back from Veer would go a long way, their audience is very much my core audience.

    The Internet has become largely a series of echo chambers, all people looking for content and instead of creating their own making sites around curating the work of others. This is largely connected to why memes are spreading as fast as they are these days, guaranteed.

    I’d send them the “See something? Cite something.” chart Caldwell and I did, but they’d probably do the same thing with that one too.

  4. I think my students will agree with this one.

    I think my students will agree with this one.

  5. Cross-posted to Tumblr, because Tumblr loves it some charts.

    Cross-posted to Tumblr, because Tumblr loves it some charts.

  6. An alternate punchline for today’s comic. The idea of the dogs whimpering that I wound up going with works well, but I also liked the idea of highlighting that THERE ARE DOGS IN THE SUPPLY CLOSET*. *(Accidently almost wrote “dongs” there, that would have been an unfortunate typo.)

    An alternate punchline for today’s comic.

    The idea of the dogs whimpering that I wound up going with works well, but I also liked the idea of highlighting that THERE ARE DOGS IN THE SUPPLY CLOSET*.

    *(Accidently almost wrote “dongs” there, that would have been an unfortunate typo.)

  7. 1.  Look at Jimmy the Murderdog. I didn’t set out to invent a character, I needed a non sequitur of a punchline and people latched onto it in a way I never expected. There’s one in every comic whether it’s the cactus in Girls with Slingshots, DIV in Penny Arcade, Pint Size in QC, or whatever. I never wanted to have that kind of character in my comic but it happened anyway. I think people like having a character like that, it gives them something to latch onto (especially with The System or other gag-a-day strips, where seeing the one recurring character is the closest the comic ever comes to having continuity). 2.  Charts. Internet, I love charts. I sell a g-ddamn Venn F*%king Diagrams shirt. But seriously, most of them aren’t as funny as you think they are. Also, while I love a lot of funny memes out there, I get a bit annoyed about how easy it is to drop a meme into a comic and call it good writing. Linux, zombies, and comic sans are only the tip of the iceburg. All of them in a chart? Damn, it’s amazing your head hasn’t exploded right now. 3.  Also, the last panel flashes the word boobs. That can’t be bad. I also wanted to fit in something about articles that are just bulleted lists. “5 ways to increase traffic to your junk” and “Top 10 movie flurbs of all time” but I couldn’t fit it. Soon enough I’m sure. Rosscott, Inc. » Archive » The System 352: Popular Internet Comics

    1.  Look at Jimmy the Murderdog. I didn’t set out to invent a character, I needed a non sequitur of a punchline and people latched onto it in a way I never expected. There’s one in every comic whether it’s the cactus in Girls with Slingshots, DIV in Penny Arcade, Pint Size in QC, or whatever. I never wanted to have that kind of character in my comic but it happened anyway. I think people like having a character like that, it gives them something to latch onto (especially with The System or other gag-a-day strips, where seeing the one recurring character is the closest the comic ever comes to having continuity).

    2.  Charts. Internet, I love charts. I sell a g-ddamn Venn F*%king Diagrams shirt. But seriously, most of them aren’t as funny as you think they are. Also, while I love a lot of funny memes out there, I get a bit annoyed about how easy it is to drop a meme into a comic and call it good writing. Linux, zombies, and comic sans are only the tip of the iceburg. All of them in a chart? Damn, it’s amazing your head hasn’t exploded right now.

    3.  Also, the last panel flashes the word boobs. That can’t be bad.

    I also wanted to fit in something about articles that are just bulleted lists. “5 ways to increase traffic to your junk” and “Top 10 movie flurbs of all time” but I couldn’t fit it. Soon enough I’m sure.

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