Looks like someone's Spotted

Ghastly · Post by **Ghastly** » Sun Jan 09, 2005 8:47 pm

Digital War wrote:
(the current figures are something like 95% using IE still)

Which may be true for the internet in general, but I know from my own sites browser tracking that only about 50% of my readers are using IE, the rest are using a variety of third party browsers.

Pascalle draws Zap! · Post by **Pascalle draws Zap!** » Sun Jan 09, 2005 9:07 pm

Hi guys. I'm the artist at Zap! (the comic that's being randomly talked about) and I guess that I just wanted to throw in my two cents about this whole deal.

A lot of people have been like "Well, who are they? How did THEY get Spotted?" I really don't know. We just applied and got lucky, I suppose. I'd like to think that the hard work I put in to the comic to produce stuff like this

http://www.zapinspace.com/archive.php?go=20041115

http://www.zapinspace.com/archive.php?go=20041108

http://www.zapinspace.com/archive.php?go=20041220

http://www.zapinspace.com/archive.php?go=20041224

maybe had something to do with it, but there TONS of amazing artists who put me to shame every day out there on the net and by a lot more deserve the same opportuinity that we've been granted. I was just really lucky to get paired up with someone as clever as Chris for writing, and doing this comic has been a lot of fun for both of us.

Chris and I are extremely grateful for this opportunity, and we're going to try our best to do right by it.

um... that's all. ^ ^

Van D, has Chris E-mailed you about BSL yet? if he hasn't, jump on him, or tell me and I'll jump on him for you!

Beyonder_alpha · Post by **Beyonder_alpha** » Sun Jan 09, 2005 9:14 pm

Pascalle draws Zap! wrote: http://www.zapinspace.com/archive.php?go=20041115

http://www.zapinspace.com/archive.php?go=20041108

http://www.zapinspace.com/archive.php?go=20041220

http://www.zapinspace.com/archive.php?go=20041224

We're not doubting the work you put into the comics, we just never heard from you before while you had a good comic and a keenspace account, that's all.

And looking over and over again at link 1 and 4 I wish for more link 1 and 4's...

Vorticus · Post by **Vorticus** » Sun Jan 09, 2005 9:16 pm

You have to excuse our attitude here. Some of us are a tad jaded about the whole getting spotted thing.

Beyonder_alpha · Post by **Beyonder_alpha** » Sun Jan 09, 2005 10:32 pm

Vorticus wrote:You have to excuse our attitude here. Some of us are a tad jaded about the whole getting spotted thing.

I think one of these days a russian lynchmob would pass by these forums and say "Really people, that's just too far..."

Alschroeder · Post by **Alschroeder** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 5:49 am

Pascalle draws Zap! wrote:Hi guys. I'm the artist at Zap! (the comic that's being randomly talked about) and I guess that I just wanted to throw in my two cents about this whole deal.

<snip>
maybe had something to do with it, but there TONS of amazing artists who put me to shame every day out there on the net and by a lot more deserve the same opportuinity that we've been granted. I was just really lucky to get paired up with someone as clever as Chris for writing, and doing this comic has been a lot of fun for both of us.

Chris and I are extremely grateful for this opportunity, and we're going to try our best to do right by it.

um... that's all. ^ ^

Van D, has Chris E-mailed you about BSL yet? if he hasn't, jump on him, or tell me and I'll jump on him for you!

Congrats! Nice strip, and I think you're a good addition to 'Spot.---Al

Terotrous · Post by **Terotrous** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 6:14 am

Just try not to quit your strip in two months. You wouldn't believe the number of people that's happened to.

Alschroeder · Post by **Alschroeder** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 6:32 am

faub wrote:
Members.keenspace.com

Hey, Mindmistress is moving up! (Not in Ghastly's range or anything, but hey, it's heartening....)---Al

Terotrous · Post by **Terotrous** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 6:36 am

alschroeder wrote:
faub wrote:Members.keenspace.com
Hey, Mindmistress is moving up! (Not in Ghastly's range or anything, but hey, it's heartening....)---Al

I must discover your tricks for "moving up"...

Bekka · Post by **Bekka** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 7:36 am

Hey guys, congratulations!

Post by **STrRedWolf** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 7:56 am

TOXIC AVENGER! wrote:According to Alexa, he ranks 5,630,748, which means he doesn't generate a huge amount of traffic. For reference, traffic ranks of others here:
Sexylosers.com - 8,450
Ghastlycomic.com - 457,792
Stalag99.net - 734,606
Digitalwar.co.uk - 1,243,657
Alexandilia.com.br - 4,853,565

WHAT?!? I'm under the double mark of Ghastly?!? Damn, I need to get something done.

And on Zap... It's Spot material, but not spectacular. Good enough, though! Congrats.

Alschroeder · Post by **Alschroeder** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 8:21 am

Terotrous wrote:
alschroeder wrote:
faub wrote:Members.keenspace.com
Hey, Mindmistress is moving up! (Not in Ghastly's range or anything, but hey, it's heartening....)---Al
I must discover your tricks for "moving up"...

In all honesty, I'm posting in areas of discussion that are more in keeping with my comic. For instance, mine is a superhero comic, not a gamer or college comic, so I'm posting more at dccomics com, and including it in the signature. The problem is, DC has disabled the "signature" function, so I have to type it out every time---but it's worth it, I get a good deal of hits from them.
I've been getting hits from other things, too, including a Liv Tyler site that I use to "model" my main character from, since I mentioned it to them.
If you have a D&D comic, you post a lot in D&D forums and include the link in the signature. If you have a gaming comic, ditto. If you're Ghastly---I guess you post a lot in eicchi forums.---Al

Ghastly · Post by **Ghastly** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 10:42 am

I just post in place I like to hang out. For the most part I hang out where webcomic artists hang out. I don't really get that much traffic anymore from my own signature because everyone where I hang out either already reads my comic or doesn't like my comic.

Most of my forum traffic comes from readers who post a link to my comic in forums they hang out with.

In fact, I get more traffic each week from reader posted links in forums and blogs than most webcomics have total readers.

There's a certain point where your webcomic will begin to snowball of it's own accord and your fans will become a sizable promotional force unto themselves. Probably somewhere around the time you're getting over 20K regular readers.

Advertising is still your best way of getting a lot of readers fast. From what I've heard the best way to handle that is to advertise on a popular site, then wait a month or two and advertise there again. Then wait a month or two and advertise once more. It usually takes a few visits to a site to convince people to become regular readers. The first ad brings them in. The second ad reminds them of the comic, and the third ad hooks them as readers.

BloodKnight · Post by **BloodKnight** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 10:45 am

alschroeder wrote:
Terotrous wrote:
alschroeder wrote: Hey, Mindmistress is moving up! (Not in Ghastly's range or anything, but hey, it's heartening....)---Al
I must discover your tricks for "moving up"...
If you have a D&D comic, you post a lot in D&D forums and include the link in the signature. If you have a gaming comic, ditto. If you're Ghastly---I guess you post a lot in eicchi forums.---Al

You know any DnD forums that actually allow you to have banners in your signature? Not just to slap my banner or anything, but I do enjoy the game

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 12:02 pm

Hey! Finally some Spot that I've heard of before.

wp wrote:If only you had a dollar for every time you had to explain that one...

God yes... I know it's very unfair of me to say so, but every once in a while, a new person says "Hey, they should've spotted Ghastly, that is totally unfair", and none of them ever thinks for a moment that there's much, much more that they know behing the whole issue... And every time I feel like saying: "Where were you last few years? On a deserted island?"

Alschroeder · Post by **Alschroeder** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 12:16 pm

BloodKnight wrote: You know any DnD forums that actually allow you to have banners in your signature? Not just to slap my banner or anything, but I do enjoy the game

Not offhand, since mine is NOT a DND comic, but you might ask the author of DUNGEON DAMAGE at http://dungeondamage.keenspace.com/. I bet he'd know.---Al

Alschroeder · Post by **Alschroeder** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 12:18 pm

Ghastly wrote:I just post in place I like to hang out.

(Nodding.) And since I have a real INTEREST in the forums I hang out at, like the superhero ones (hey, I met my wife through a Julie Schwartz Superman letter column), it shows. ----Al

Caduceus · Post by **Caduceus** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 8:06 pm

Well, the best RPG site on the internet is http://www.rpg.net . It's great. It doesn't allow banners but I do have a link to my comic in my sig and get some traffic from it. The best site devoted to D&D in particular (as RPGNet has a huge number of D&D/ D20 haters) is http://www.enworld.org .

I believe the artist for Dungeon Damage is a regular at RPGNet as well.

BloodKnight · Post by **BloodKnight** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 8:09 pm

Yeah, Dungeon Damage, one of the few fantasy comics that got me hooked until the number of actual comic pages rivaled against number of filler art.

I wonder what he is doing now.

That guy · Post by **That guy** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 8:35 pm

Not that I hold particular clout (...take to mean: ANY clout...) but from what I've read ZAP's a damn spanky comic and well worth Spotting. I'm glad The final choice doesn't go to who has the most hits... and here's why:
'SPOT gets people more hits, so if you're already pulling in numbers like Ghastly (which rocks my socks, btw...) then you don't NEED the added publicity that keenspot would offer. Comics doing phenomenal work but who haven't been noticed as much (like ZAP!), THEY deserve to get a little boost, I think.
That said, while I think of Keenspot Invites are definitely something to be proud of, I'm dang happy with KeenSPACE. There's a kind of ghetto pride and community here, and that's more than enough for me. Some of the most phenomenal artwork and some of the best writing are still 'Spacers, and power to 'em!