Webcartoonist vs Webcartoonist: The Tabloid!

THE END: WvW Screeches to a Stop as Embattled Editor Found Demented in Office.

2005-08-29T13:38:00.000-07:00

The editor and founder of Webcartoonist vs Webcartoonist, the mysterious figure known as WvW, was found in a questionable state of insanity in his non-existent office today. This prompted shocked rumors that the controversial scandalsheet figurehead had commited mental suicide.

He was found next to a half-empty bottle of schmoose pills, gibbering about whether "a comic that looks like a comic, walks like a comic and quacks like a comic is a comic."

"We think he overdosed on them." said one of the remaining reporters in hushed tones. "He was taking Freud on the side too. I think he was getting disconnected from everything and started saying stuff like "Can anybody stop this thing before my head explodes and my ears start to ring..."

"But I really didn't think he'd do something like that!"

Others however, said that they had already foreseen the impending fall.

"Yeah he was going around muttering 'We've been living life inside a bubble' or something like that." admitted another reporter, who shrugged. "We all thought he was just being philosophical but Regneva (the reporter who left because of the Harry Potter thing) did say before that things were getting a bit crazy."

However, there are suspicions of foul play. A half-torn memo was found on his desk. While the internet police have been reluctant to comment, it is suspected that the memo had been used to write a suicide note.

"None of us knew who he really was." Admitted another reporter. "He guarded his identity very jealously."

"Can we keep going?" he said when asked about Webcartoonist vs Webcartoonist's future. "I don't know. It feels wrong to. The least we should do is wait and see if a trip to the asylum cures him or something."

Contributor Mister Bristol was contacted for comment, but no usable quote could be attained through the sobbing. Some distinguishable words included "sorrow", "like a sibling," and, strangely, "donut."

Conspiracy theorists have pointed out it's just too convenient the note was torn where it would have revealed WvW's real identity. However, until the scrap is found, the real identity of WvW will forever remain a mystery.

Webcomics World Self-Detonates from New York Times Article Onslaught!

2005-08-21T15:34:00.000-07:00

We at WvW have decided not to post any links to any of discussions in the main article as you can't visit any webcomics-related site without seeing it being discussed, it would be pointless anyway.

However we thought it would be more fun for the readers to find them and post them in the comments section. Can YOU find a discussion on this topic that no one else has found before?*

Gonna catch them all!

*We are perfectly aware this is an impossible task, but try it anyway!

JACK THOMPSON AND VGCATS IN GRAND THEFT PARODY FRACAS: Thompson: "Dear idiot:..." "Stop, or else. got it?"

2005-08-08T06:30:00.000-07:00

News Story Origin: Digital Strips

Jack Thompson, the anti-video game advocate who believes that "gamers are on drugs", reportedly tangled with Scott Ramsoomair over a parody strip on WCCA award-winning webcomicVG Cats

The VGCats Site has documented the full exchange of emails here.

Ramsoomair has been accused by Thompson of harrassment, while Ramsoomair insists that Thompson was the first one that initiated contact. This is an action on which Thompson vigorously denies, although evidence of this not being the case is sadly lacking at this point in time. It can be noted however, that Thompson's denials grow increasingly frantic and bereft of rational debate:

Ramsoomair: I remind you good sir. You emailed me.

Thompson: No, you emailed me. HOnestly, are all of you gamers on drugs, or what?

Ramsoomair: I would have to say the same about you. Here let me forward the exact email you sent me.

Thompson: dear idiot: you initially contacted me. stop, or else. got it?

Ramsoomair: Or else? Oh Jack, you're a blue berry muffin of creamy fun. Forwarded the original messege you sent to me, back to you. You probably don't remember sending it. It's okay. It happens with age.

Thompson: Scott, this is your last warning. Don't send me any more emails. You are the person who initialed contacted me. I did not solicit the email. You will either stop or I will take legal action to make you stop."

The resulting fracas has started off several diatribes from others in the gamer-comics communities, including one Tim Buckley of the well-known gaming comic Ctr-Alt-Del.

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WCN accused of "Lying to Our Faces"!

2005-08-04T10:38:00.000-07:00

The newly launched WebcomicsNation Service has been accused of false advertising.

Matt Wilson, a poster at the Keenspot forums, launched an angry tirade directed at WCN, quoting a post from the WCN support boards that allegedly said:

"We say "unmetered" bandwidth, but we don't say "unlimited" bandwidth. If your bandwidth usage is causing a problem for the service as a whole, and interfering with our other customers' ability to serve their pages, we will want to talk to you about that."

Which was interpreted by the poster to mean "Summary: the bandwidth IS metered and we lied to your face"

"My thoughts are... that they call themselves the solution for professional cartoonists is hilarious. apparently if you like having your own web design, using CGI, PHP, or MySQL, or just having any control over your work in general, you're not 'professional.' and just think, you get the blessing of paying them 10 dollars a month for this glorious relinquishing of well-travelled experience.

This will be something to keep an eye on, a year down the road, to see what horror stories emerge, or what features (like "unmetered bandwidth") disappear when someone actually becomes successful (which is unlikely since noone will remember your url if it's in a folder). i still think the lack of personality or individuality is a serious mistake, but hey, it's up to you. you decide with your dollar."

Although Wilson denies intending to lead a smear campaign against WCN, he admits to having previous tangles with the MT-conglomerate which may have soured his relations towards Joey Manley...

" I keep finding his decisions questionable. I was myself involved in a short lived Modern Tales animation site that could've happened but didn't due to factors like this (and lack of communication... and RICH V STONE....)."

Joey Manley has yet to comment on this issue, but then again, we haven't asked him about it yet.

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BuzzComix Returns!

2005-08-04T09:51:00.000-07:00

After 3 months of downtime, ultra-popular web-comic ranking site BuzzComic has risen like an inefficiently-coded phoenix from the ashes. Crude rankings are disdained by those higher in the web-comic-echelons, but BuzzComix and Top Web Comics have become a key way for indie-web-comics to get traffic and publicity, and is considered partly responsible for the rise of RPG bad boy Order of the Stick.

Already, the smaller comics have clamored for their voters to return to the competition, garnering publicity for their sites. A significant traffic shortfall since May has devastated the field, and optimists hope the publicity will replenish their ad revenue.

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http://www.buzzcomix.net/community/viewforum.php?f=1

Penny Arcade and PvP Go to Warcraft!

2005-08-04T09:05:00.000-07:00

Having demolished their nemesis Squidi, Penny Arcade has turned to renewing their rivalry with web-comic-cartoonist-mentor Scott Kurtz of PvP Comics. According to Kurtz “It’s on!”

World of Warcraft is the popular massive multi-player online RPG that consumes all who play it with obsessiveness and leveling-up. PA and PvP, as well as other top comics like Ctrl-Alt-Del have committed their remaining mortal hours to leveling up their characters and ignored the normal summer slew of games. Many webcomics have begun jokes or story-lines based solely around the characters and mechanisms for WoW, as it is known on the street. PA was even hired to do illustrations for the official strategy guide, garnishing further envy from their independent-web-comic critics.

When Kurtz created a PvP-fan-based Horde guild on the WoW server “Dark Iron”, called Panda Attacks, PA responded by starting their own guild “Knights of Arcadia” as Alliance. Both guilds filled up very quickly due to the popularity of these web-comic giants, and had to cut non-active members to stay below their 500 player maximum. Soon that was not enough as the players continued to join, PA created a secondary guild “The Fancy Lads” which filled quickly, and PvP and PA claimed the server entire as their own. From now on, every combat and raid on the Dark Iron server will be for the honor of these dueling web-comic-communities. Blizzard has only responded with amusement and tacit endorsement.

Since WoW has already had imbalance issues in the Alliance-Horde ratio, the extra popularity of Penny Arcade is expected to only contribute to the problem. Already it is difficult for new characters to complete their quests because of how many previous characters have already caused “mass extinction events” as they compete for monsters to kill. As well, the overwhelming populations on these PvP servers make any lone character likely to be massacred by marauding bands from the opposing teams. Lag in the capital cities where teams try to find refuge, is reported to be “catastrophic”. It’s a war zone out there.

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http://penny-arcade.com/news.php?date=2005-08-01
http://www.pvponline.com/
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/board.aspx?fn=wow-realm-darkiron

Squidi Retires!

2005-08-04T08:25:00.000-07:00

Spoken of in hushed tones in comic conventions across the country, Internet ne’er-do-well and pixel-comic-cartoonist Squidi is abandoning the broadband as he has grown tired of this whole, "internet thing". “For eternity hereafter, squidi.net will be remembered only as a footnote - the guy who tried to sue King PA over some feet or something.” And simply put, PA won’t have Squidi to kick around anymore.

Squidi started a fight years ago getting in a tussle on the Penny Arcade forums about forum-goers who used his art for such vulgar and unpermitted purposes as forum-avatars. He threatened to sue the behemoth PA for allowing his icons to be used, and for the unsuing flame-war that soiled his reputation.

Despite iconoclastic dislike of PA among the more indie-webcomic-cartoonists, Squidi’s attitude and his use of the dreaded internet term of “copyright” earned him no friends among the web-comic-critic-circles.

Says Websnark forum-goer Shaenon, “I hate to say anything against the guy's essay because apparently it'll make him cry and possibly shoot up a post office, but his petulant description of getting interviewed by T Campbell – ‘He didn't want to talk about anything else, like how AMD has single handedly fought for the legitimacy of the pixel art genre it defined’ -- is one of the funniest sentences I've encountered on the entire Internet, and I hang out on John Byrne's message board. Actually, that entire paragraph is awesome.”

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href=http://www.websnark.com/archives/2005/08/perhaps_the_wei.html
http://www.squidi.net

Editor's Note: We originally mistakenly attributed the Websnark quote by "Shaenon" as "Shaeron". WvW apologises for the mistake and reflects once more why we cannot be accused of good journalism.

Pearls before SWIPE?

2005-07-26T10:07:00.000-07:00

DJ "Trouble" Coffman was surprised recently when he sat down yesterday to read his favorite newspaper comic, Stephan Pastis's Pearls Before Swine. It appeared that Coffman and cohort Bob McDeavitt's Brick of Silence, an ongoing gag in the Yirmumah strip, made its first newspaper appearance -- as a towel -- in this strip.

DJ Coffman, usually one to shy away from controversy and the spotlight, had this to say in his blog about the strip:

"We're making their jobs much easier, aren't we? Too bad we can't steal their watered down garbage that's fit for papers, eh? Nah, that stuff won't fly online. Of course, we here at Yirmumah can't PROVE any of this.. it's just, uh, 'speculation' and 'commentary'. yeah.. that's the ticket."

Could this lead to a whole line of swipes from the cartoonists in the print world? Should we expect a blue troll to appear and eat Cathy? Will Garfield start playing video games and spew profanity? The possibilities are endless. Endless and delicious.

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William G Switches to Selling Phonecards?

2005-07-26T09:17:00.000-07:00

Headline lifted from Comixpedia Forums

Not long after William G took down his controversial Delineated Life blog, a new blog has appeared in its place... selling Phonecards.

While for one momentary moment it was wondered if William G had decided to ditch webcomics for phone cards, it was soon revealed that the opportunistic company decided to take advantage of the hits generated by his previous notoriety and snapped up the blogger account name.

"Okay. I did get swiped. I'm not bothered by it. (But I recently checked it out, and I am annoyed that a couple of variations of my name as a URL are being cyber-squatted, or used.) "...

"The best I can figure out why they swiped my old blog URL is because all of the more popular expat in Korea blogs have it linked and they're using it for the click through traffic. Kinda sleazy, but you don't run a business without having a few shit-stains on your soul. " says William G

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[Editorial] Websnark advocates Socialism!

2005-07-25T17:06:00.000-07:00

Note from Editor: The following is an editorial by our reporter.

In response to MacHall’s stirring denunciation of state-controlled enterprise on Monday, un-American web-comic-critic-journalist leapt into the fray with yet another tirade in favor of state-controlled medicine.

The widespread liberal bias in web-comics is widely known, and many web-comic-cartoonists living in abject poverty favor a national system. On the other hand, without medicine, many web-comic-cartoonists are hoping the newspaper-comic-author-aristocracy will be faster in making way for the new generation.

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http://www.machall.com/index.php?strip_id=341
http://www.websnark.com/archives/2005/07/w_there_are_tra.html

CONNECTI-CON FACING BANKRUPTCY: Debts in Excess of $30k!

2005-07-21T04:21:00.000-07:00

Matt Daigle and Briana Benn, the two organisers of the webcomics-centric convention, are reportedly $34,148.50 in debt after the sleazy Connecticut Convention Center allegedly inflated the bill for 'additional expenses' from $10k to over three times that amount.

"Due to a change in management and policy at the University of Hartford, where ConnectiCon was hosted for the first two years, the convention was forced to find a new home in 2005."..."They moved ConnectiCon to the brand new Connecticut Convention Center."

"Despite throwing another wonderful convention this year, they did not break even. In fact, due to the Convention Center being so new, and through a series of misunderstandings between ConnectiCon and Connecticut Convention Center staff, there were a lot of unforeseen expenses tacked on at the last minute. "

"They have treated webcomics like royalty for the past three years and now, in their hour of need, dozens of webcomic creators and other artists have banded together to organize this fund. "

In other news, Robert 'Tangents' Howard believes that a fund should be set up for "webcomic artists in need".

"What's needed is a Webcartoonist Assistance Fund. I'm not sure how we'd go about and create this; who would hold the funds? Who would decide which cartoonist is in need? What constitutes need? Still, a Webcartoonist Assistance Fund would be a viable entity, once the foundations of it are laid down. It could be funded by donations by fans and by cartoonists who want to put a little something in, to help out others in need or even on the off chance that they themselves are in need further down the line."

Rumours now abound of another Live8 concert where the new slogan is "Make Webcomics Poverty History".

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Mitch Clem Left With Nothing To Say?

2005-07-20T21:45:00.000-07:00

Mitch Clem, the punk rock princess of the webcartoonist world, has let a Wednesday pass without updating his beloved strip Nothing Nice to Say. This follows installments consisting mostly of stick figures yelling angrily and using the worst webcomic grammar outside of a recycled sprite comic.

Could this be an indication that Clem has given up on his fans? Was Mitch caught listening to a Backstreet Boys CD and dragged out of his house by loyal readers? Will we see another Nothing Nice installment in the future or can I finally stop talking to the guy at the pool hall who explains all the music jokes?

STEVE BRYANT "DRESSES-DOWN" TYCHO: Is There Something Between Them?

2005-07-20T04:41:00.000-07:00

While the promise of a death-match between Scott McCloud and Penny-Arcade's Tycho at the Comic-Con petered out, another conflict blossomed between the PA magnate and Eisner Award Nominee Athena Voltaire's creator, Steve Bryant.

"I was over at Comic Relief trying to track down a Sinfest collection, and when I asked a person with an exhibitor badge facing into the aisle if they had it, he informed me in no uncertain terms that not only did he not work there, he was super pissed off at me. It was Steve from Athena Voltaire, about whose work I had said something mean in passing three months ago. " said a rather rattled Tycho.

"That's never really happened to me, had a man straight-up dress me down right to my face,"... "Still, I think I could have taken him.".

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Kurtz Loses Eisner, Wins Spit

2005-07-19T15:19:00.000-07:00

After receiving the crushing news of his defeat in the Best Humor Writer/Artist category to Kyle Baker at the 2005 Eisner awards, Scott Kurtz watched as failed expectations were followed by a hail of expectoration.

Mr. Kurtz was quick to defend the act of the spitter, stating the incident may have been accidental. "This guy with dark hair came up to the booth, He said something, spit hit me in the face and I recoiled. He immediately turned around and walked off. I'm not sure if he was making a statement or if he was a fan who accidentally spit on me and then ran off in an embarassed panic," stated Mr. Kurtz at pvponline.com. Did he forget to add, "I've always enjoyed being spit on and hope my defense of the anonymous spitter leads to more easily-forgiven anonymous spitters in the future"?

http://www.pvponline.com

KeenSpot Panel Gone Missing! Or Not!

2005-07-19T14:05:00.000-07:00

KeenSpot changing name! Or not!

No official word yet has leaked out over KeenSpot 2 hour panel and announcement at Comic-Con international. The secrecy and mystery revolving around the panel, which was promised to have some big announcement in the wake of defections to Blank Label Comics, has confused many in the web-comic-journalist-commentary community.

Quote forum contributor Paul S. “Something tells me the big outing of this information shouldn't have been in the comments section of Websnark. Get on the friggin' stick, Keenspot!”

One rumor is that KeenSpot announced a dramatic new name change – to ToonSpot! And then were booed off the stage.

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Websnark Poster Spoils Harry Potter

2005-07-19T05:35:00.000-07:00

By the mysterious means known only to internet drama, a thread on the Spotting of Two Lumps degenerated into a flamefest when DJ Coffman of Yirmumah callously posted the biggest spoiler in the book in the comments section.

"Congratulations, you've claimed my internet-flame virginity. Is that the point? Do you get to laugh your ass off at the thinskinned moron fangirl now? Do you get to sneer at play the world's tiniest violin for my precious, precious recreational reading enjoyment? Fuck. You." says an enraged HP book fan.

The delighted DJ Coffman chortled and proceeded to shamelessly merchandise.

In other news, WvW reporter Regneva resigned from WvW, citing having the book spoiled for her "the last straw".

As a result, WvW is temporarily on hold until we can get new people in. We are currently considering a new open posting system, which will allow regular news submitters to directly post to the blog. So if you're interested in writing for WvW and possess a Blogger account, contact our email address and we will be happy to consider you.

Editor's Note: As should be obvious, with the intake of two new reporters, WvW is no longer on hold. However, we are still taking in more reporters, so if you're still interested,
contact us!

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The Mysterious Disappearance of William G

2005-07-10T03:21:00.000-07:00

WvW source Frank Lee writes: "It looks like all of the fights he's had of late has shaken William's desire to toon. Maybe this retreat will be a rebirth for G. I'm sure that this won't be the last that we hear from the man."

The only remnant of the existence of Notorious William G is a short message on his comic site: "Okay, some people are getting hurt feelings over my "get stuffed" message that I didnt intend to, so let me rewrite this more simply: I dont enjoy this any more. I'm not going to keep doing something that's become a thorn in my side. That's it. The site will go down soon.

- William G"

WvW reporter Regneva comments: "I'm sad to see NWG go. He had some interesting things to say. Too bad he was always so condescending when saying it he made the webcomics world to hot to hold him. I bet he'll show up again under some mysterious psuedonym."

We at WvW bid The Notorious William G a fond farewell and thank him from providing so much fodder over the past months.

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Garrity Opts-Out from Comic Nation Service

2005-07-10T02:58:00.000-07:00

A direct fallout from the Comic Nation Scandal, critically acclaimed webcomic artist Shaenon Garrity opted to remove her comics from the listings of the Comic Nation site due to the unprofessional behaviour of the admins.

"I don't want to be involved with a service run by people who show the lack of professionalism and common courtesy that you've shown on this thread and on your own site. It's just an accident waiting to happen.

I don't care if Aerie started it, or if she was being unreasonable, or if she's just a sucky cartoonist and you're better off without her. This is not the behavior of a company with which I want my name or work associated.

Shaenon Garrity
www.narbonic.com"

This has led to accusations from Comic Nation staff "Egarwen" that Aeire has started an agenda"to attempt to (and, judging from Shaenon's post, she's started already) shut down a site that provides a service that a lot of webcomic readers find helpful out of spite?"

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Comic Nation Drama: Aeire Responds

2005-07-10T02:55:00.000-07:00

A visibly upset Aeire was quick to respond to the comments of the Comic Nation staff:

"To those wondering what happened - these guys put my comic on a ratings site without asking my permission or bothering to check and see if that was okay..." "...I hear about it and send them an email saying that I would like to be removed from their list as I don't want to be on a ratings site. It was polite, it wasn't 'bitchy', it was a request..."

"They refused to take me off. They flat-out said no." "...Words were exchanged, my comic was removed, eventually, after an undue amount of hassle on my end that could have been spent working on my "sucky piece of comic shit", as he so eloquently put it..."

"...They informed me that they were taking the ratings system off of their website and attempted to wheedle me into staying by doing so, I told them flat-out that frankly after dealing with their 'staff' I had no interest in being affliated with their website, ever, and I didn't really care if it was a ratings site or not at this point."

"...I was told back a week or two ago or whenever it was by a close friend of mine that my comic was back on their list again, so I sent them an email asking them to remove it and telling them that I had no wish to affiliate with their website. They sent me a reply very quickly and said they would look into it, and then sent me another a little while later apologizing and saying that my site would be removed, and it was. I was at that point quite impressed with the amount that their 'customer service' had matured and was pleased to note that I didn't have to argue, and was happy."

"So now I look on Websnark and see this thing, and I was about to make a comment and let you know, quietly, that my website would not be on their list."... "...And then I see this bullshit post on their forums. Hey wow guys. Way to be mature. Way to be 'professional'. "... What the shit. What a bunch of petty, disgusting, immature children..."

"...You've just guaranteed that I am going to tell everyone I know in the industry about your petty bullshit. Way to go there buddy."

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Comic Nation Site Faces Criticism for Unprofessional Behaviour

2005-07-10T02:33:00.000-07:00

A recent outroar was the result of the discovery of several insulting comments by Comic Nation administrators which were directed towards popular comic artist Aeire after the latter repeatedly requested to have her comic removed from the listings.

"So Aerie has somehow discovered our horribly, illicit pinging of her site once again, and bitched accordingly. Just for the record, we don't really care." -- Cthulu Maccabi (Comic Nation Administrator)

"It's gone. Good riddance you sucky piece of comic shit!" -- Bono (Comic Nation Administrator)

Although the comments have been removed from the site of the original posting, they have already been immortalized in the Websnark thread that publicized the discovery.

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Hacker Attacks Keenspace and Gossamer Commons

2005-07-05T02:43:00.000-07:00

A couple of webcomics sites, including the Keenspace forums and the webcomic Gossamer Commons were hacked by a "black-hat hacker" who then modified the pages to display the message "spykids spykids" on the front pages.

Coming in the wake of the infamous Modern Tales hacking several months ago, the webcomics community have begun to speculate that somewhere out there, there is a hacker who has a personal vendetta against webcomics.

"Why are they doing this?" An irritated webcomic artist who refused to be named said. "God, I mean, why could anyone hate webcomics enough to attack them this much?!"

Others were less congenial, declaring "Somebody's going to die for this.".

The "spykids" hackers attentions do not seem to be confined to webcomics however, as sites such as this have also been defaced by the malicious attacker.

The non-existent webcomic police have urged the people to be vigilant against such attacks, warning that the psychopath would not be satisfied with just his two recent victims.

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Google Ads' Horrible Goof-Up?

2005-07-04T15:11:00.000-07:00

On the heels of our previous report that Google Ads accused Howard Taylor of Click Fraud, we at WvW received a note from Howard Tayler himself saying that "Google reinstated me on Friday. I haven't put the ads back up yet because, well, I just finished take them DOWN, but I'll get 'em back up sometime next week."

No further information was provided as to what exactly was the nature of the 'fraud' accusation or whether it was a mistake, but what is certain that this affair has been a serious blow to the confidence of the I.W.M (Independent Webcomics Movement). It is unknown what effects this may have on the non-existent upcoming webcomic general elections.

Howard Tayler Accused of Google Ads Click Fraud!

2005-07-02T15:41:00.000-07:00

Howard Tayler, creator of Schlock Mercenary and enthusiastic advocate of Google Ads, has been paradoxically accused of click fraud by Google Ads itself.

Howard says: "Google Adsense was working swimmingly until last Thursday morning, when Google emailed me and suspended my account for "invalid clicks." "... "It is possible that well-meaning fans simply outdid themselves and clicked too much. It is also possible that Darth Hackamous and his army of clickdroids deliberately targetted my account."

"Google's Terms of Service allow them to say nothing further on the matter, and they've said lots of that. At this point the only people I have enough information to get angry at are nameless Google employees whose employer can sue me for defamation thanks to these same Terms of Service. "

In other news, another notorious webcomic artist reportedly accused Tayler of including unrelated meta-keywords on his site meta-tags.

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When Search Engines and Webcomics Collide!

2005-07-01T03:58:00.000-07:00

Search Engine Comic Strip have chosen to jump in on the recent McCloud Micropayments Debacle and Google's recent foray into micropayments with killer cow burgers for everyone.

"...for us toony-types to declare micropayments don’t work,"... "is similar to saying a new kind of burger will never sell, just because the Super-Duper Cow-Killer Burger isn’t selling at Uncle Bob's Barn o' Beef. Let's let McDonald's have a try, shall we?"

While the strip creators candidly admit: "This strip is designed to confuse both groups.", "What we have to say about micropayments," says Campbell, "is largely irrelevant."

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First Web-Only Comic Celebrates 10th Anniversary

2005-06-29T03:49:00.000-07:00

Webcomic ancestor Argon Zark celebrated his 10th birthday recently.

"The first Argon Zark! page was posted on June 27, 1995.

As of June 27, 2005 it has been on the Web continuously for 10 years.

Argon Zark! was the first comic created specifically to be published on the World Wide Web, and is still the longest running webcomic."

By all reports Argon Zark, despite his advanced age, is still going strong, and only gets rheumatic attacks on rainy Sundays.

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