Go Write Some FanMail

Sincerely · Post by **Sincerely** » Sun Nov 27, 2005 6:33 pm

Pssh. You know what I mean. 200ish.

By the way, this is definitely helping my postcount. Rawk on.

JexKerome · Post by **JexKerome** » Sun Nov 27, 2005 6:36 pm

Uggh, well okay, I guess. Geez, what a pain in the ass. I gotta...

Nah, to Hell with them all. It's all Escushion's fault anyway.

Escushion · Post by **Escushion** » Sun Nov 27, 2005 6:45 pm

Inspired by Ian Jones. Inspired by Ian Jones, damnit!

And while you're at blaming him, send him crude E-mail demanding a non-text conclusion to RPGWorld.

Sincerely · Post by **Sincerely** » Sun Nov 27, 2005 6:47 pm

No. I embarrassed myself tremendously in front of Ian J. at Comic Con 2005 and I don't think I'll ever be able to speak to him again without having flashbacks and possibly seizures.

Escushion · Post by **Escushion** » Sun Nov 27, 2005 6:54 pm

I want to hear this story!

Please please please please please!

Starline · Post by **Starline** » Sun Nov 27, 2005 7:11 pm

Escushion wrote:And again, Ryuko has it before I do.

I don't really see this as a morally complex topic .

EDIT: Alright fine Star, if I must get into it further...

Maybe I didn't word this correctly. Maybe what appears to be my initial post really says "GO WRITE TO WEBCOMIC AUTHORS OR YOU'LL CONTRACT HEMMEROIDS! EXTREME ONES!" If this is what my post really says, please let me know so that I'll be aware that I don't know how to read.

But on the chance that my post actually does say what I think it says: This is just a matter of getting to it. There are plenty of webcomic authors I like and whom I like the work of. I just don't bother writing them to tell them about it. There's no reason I don't, I just don't. I don't even consider it.

This is a thread about considering it. And then, after you've spent hours and hours weighing the positives and negatives of this decision, perhaps actually writing something to them. The point of the thread is to point out that yes, you can write something nice to someone, they probably won't mind, and you're letting your opinion of their work be known to them.

This is only insincere dependent on the attitude of the person reading the thread. If the person reads the topic and says "Uggh, well okay, I guess. Geez, what a pain in the ass. I gotta' write fanmail to people and arrgh, it's such a hassle", then don't do it. Doing so then would be sincere. But if the person reads the topic and says "Hey, y'know, I do like this one author's comic, and I wanna' tell 'em that. Maybe it'll brighten up their day and let them know their work is appreciated at least by me", then do it. That's sincere, it's just that the topic was a catalyst.

If you're still sour over it, then blame Ian Jones. That's what I always do.

I'm not sour.

I was just saying he had a point.

Starline · Post by **Starline** » Sun Nov 27, 2005 7:13 pm

sincerely wrote:No. I embarrassed myself tremendously in front of Ian J. at Comic Con 2005 and I don't think I'll ever be able to speak to him again without having flashbacks and possibly seizures.

I'm sure it wasn't that bad. He probably didn't even notice you were embrassed. Please tell the story.

Sincerely · Post by **Sincerely** » Sun Nov 27, 2005 7:28 pm

You guys are meanies.

It was very brief. I walked up to his booth and called him by the wrong name (I think I had something else on my mind at the time). I think I called him Ian MacDonald, which is annoying because I think that MacDonald is really rather terrible. Anyway, after he corrected me I told him I liked his comic and ran away very quickly.

If I'd been in my right mind I'd've said I was sorry to see it dying and was really into the climax ever since his conversation interrupted strip (the really long anniversary [500th strip?] one); that I was genuinely impressed with his particular style of parodying Final Fantasy, which is a game I'm fond of. Also, that one of my characters wears one of the shirts he puts out.

I'm gonna go hide under my bed now.

JexKerome · Post by **JexKerome** » Sun Nov 27, 2005 7:30 pm

You should. That was one of the most embarrasing thing I've ever heard anyone do; that it happened over the author of a dumb FF-parody webcomic only makes it worse.

Escushion · Post by **Escushion** » Sun Nov 27, 2005 7:37 pm

^He's being sarcastic, just so you know

.

That's not too bad; it's a cute story. I'm sure he got a laugh out of it.

Ryuko · Post by **Ryuko** » Sun Nov 27, 2005 7:44 pm

I wonder if he's too busy to do a vanity-google.

RPG WORLD RPG WORLD RPGWORLD!! IAN J IAN J IAN J IAN Jones-Quartey!!

JexKerome · Post by **JexKerome** » Sun Nov 27, 2005 7:45 pm

Escushion wrote:^He's being sarcastic, just so you know .

No I wasn't.

Escushion · Post by **Escushion** » Sun Nov 27, 2005 7:47 pm

JexKerome wrote:
Escushion wrote:^He's being sarcastic, just so you know .
No I wasn't.

Don't tell me what you were. I know what you were. Don't you know this game?

Sheesh.

Sincerely · Post by **Sincerely** » Sun Nov 27, 2005 7:51 pm

I think he looked more taken back than amused.

I'm just thankful that my con buddies had disappeared during this scene. If they'd ever heard of him or RPG World, they'd have never let me live it down.

Also, Jex can't actually say anything to make me -more- embarassed than I already am. So it doesn't really matter that he's not sarcastic.

Escushion · Post by **Escushion** » Sun Nov 27, 2005 7:59 pm

I can't see him being taken aback by it

.

"You got my name wrong. It's Ian Jones."

"Oh, um... I like your comic!"

"WHAAAAA?! o_o"

But then I wasn't there. It does make me think there could be an alternate version of the Checkerboard Nightmare storyline where Chex went around hitting different webcomic artists with a shovel at a con.

Sincerely · Post by **Sincerely** » Sun Nov 27, 2005 8:03 pm

"I like your comic but couldn't be troubled to get your name right."?

I still have to read through Checkerboard Nightmare. It's on my list.

DJMayhem · Post by **DJMayhem** » Sun Nov 27, 2005 8:53 pm

Meh. I don't write fanmail, and I've given up even emailing an author after a review because it's never read/replied. Now I just expect people to see the referal links in their stats and email me.

Escushion · Post by **Escushion** » Sun Nov 27, 2005 9:02 pm

Teammayhem wrote:Meh. I don't write fanmail, and I've given up even emailing an author after a review because it's never read/replied. Now I just expect people to see the referal links in their stats and email me.

Well the point behind it really isn't to get response or whore your site, it's to let that author know they're appreciated.

Side mini-rant:

I don't even put my comic's link when I send out E-mails unless it's for a necessity like signing up for a comic-related event. Maybe that's why I only get 70-80 unique visits a day, but I'm just not willing to stoop to a level where everything I do's end is in me being an attention whore.

Smight · Post by **Smight** » Sun Nov 27, 2005 9:43 pm

I wrote a comic fan email once. They answered back a couple weeks later saying how much they appreciated it and how they were glad I liked it and blah blah blah.

What a nerd answering fanmail.

am I right guys?!

LibertyCabbage · Post by **LibertyCabbage** » Sun Nov 27, 2005 10:00 pm

you should apologize to ian and offer him a blowjob