WOW! Article on the frontpage of SALON on ONLINE COMICS!

Charles Gnilka · Post by **Charles Gnilka** » Wed Aug 08, 2001 7:54 am

<A HREF="http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/ ... index.html" TARGET=_blank>http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/ ... ex.html</A> 
I thought Salon was about to go belly up, but I heard that the Venture Capital Fairy showed up and gave them a sackful of cash! Anyhoo, does anyone have anything to say about this?This IS the place to ask?

FrustratedPilot · Post by **FrustratedPilot** » Wed Aug 08, 2001 8:04 am

Yea, this is the place to ask. My mother is a big user of Salon's Table Talk. Must be where I get my postitis from.As for the article, I don't think it's really an either-or issue (paper or web). At least not yet.

Wish · Post by **Wish** » Wed Aug 08, 2001 9:23 am

There's been a lot of blood and thunder about the print v. web issue. I personally think that the web is a wonderful comic-lovers resource. I read paper comics. I read web comics. I read more web comics than paper comics, but, conversely, I spend more on paper comics than web comics. (Yeah, bad, bad Wish, I know...) Paper lovers don't have anything to worry about.. yet. Web lovers... our days might be numbered unless someone can figure out how to manage the numbers. And that's the big issue for me, personally. I don't worry about paper. The paperless society is much further away than most people think, I believe. Especially with the development of electronic paper coming along so well. That's my take on things. Worry about keeping the web comics alive, not about moving them all to print.-Wish

T Campbell · Post by **T Campbell** » Thu Aug 09, 2001 2:40 am

Gary Groth is one of a very few people in comics (along with Dave Sim) who really infuriates me. Man sets himself up as an arbiter of all that's proper and quality about comics, then publishes porn on a regular basis.But let's not get too deep into that, I'm in too good a mood.I'll just say that I find it astonishing that ANYONE thinks webcomics are a threat to traditional comics when traditional comics are already threatened by SO MANY other factors. I mean, this is like blaming the ozone hole on burping cows...

Darth Ferret · Post by **Darth Ferret** » Thu Aug 09, 2001 4:24 am

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by T Campbell:
I mean, this is like blaming the ozone hole on burping cows...<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>Of course we know it is not the cows repsonsible for global warming.It's those damn Pokemon characters! They are part of a giant conspiracy to suck all the ozone out of the atmosphere, and replace it with an ionized gas that only they can breathe.That is why the Pokemon characters are so popular with kids! It is part of their recruitment campaign! They will take our children and turn them into their soldiers, just like in that Ray Bradbury story "Zero Hour"That's right! THEY'RE HERE ALREADY! YOU CAN'T STOP THEM!YOU'RE NEXT!
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