Is the mailing list the future of comics? -Ours, at least?
Or how the internet is confusing and stressing
Something that Bachan and I have been discussing lately -a LOT, in fact- is where the whole internet thing is moving.
Back when I started, 22 years ago (just kill me already) things were very simple. You uploaded your comic to geocities or whatever free service you could find. Then you repeated ad infinitum, told your friends, and your friends told other friends.
It got a bit more sophisticated some years afterwards, with us building our own websites on our servers, buying our domains, and chatting it up in our forums. Ah, the golden ages.
Then came social media and everything got very confusing. Suddenly websites were “out” and social media was “in”. There was a brief time where aggregators and rss did the job, then Google axed that. And this is where we are now.
In talks with other webcomic authors, it’s clear the general concern is how our audience is spread through who knows how many social media networks, and how staying in one of those networks carry the immediate danger of getting suddenly thanos’ed out of existence, either by a suspension, a ban, or simply someone hacking into your account and stealing it from you to scam bank users. Hey, it happened to me just a few weeks ago.
Bachan convinced me there must be a way to somehow keep in touch with our readers so they can be updated on the important stuff. I will always keep our websites running, since it’s the safer bet. But we need the equivalent of a bat-signal in the sky. So here’s why we’re using mailing lists now.
Was this really interesting? I don’t even know. What? What’s that comic, you ask? Ooooooh that IS really interesting. You fill find more about it… in our next newsletter!
Yours,
Mari + Bachan
Is the mailing list the future of comics? -Ours, at least?
Sad to hear you guys got hit. But here we are steadfast ready to rebuild.
When my old ipad went kaput, guugle made me beg to get access to my accounts on the new one
New phone who this? Guug said. Its meeeeee, its meeeee, look heres my password (which at the time was 3 different psamls in arameic with a number and a symbol)