I’ll add to the Happy New Year wishes. In honor of the new year, I just spent an hour looking back at past strips to see when people started commenting on Gil Thorp. The earliest comment I found was June 13, 2008 by JSloop. Sometimes, weeks go by with no comments and even on days with comments, there may be only one. We’ve come a long way since then. The earliest commenter I recognize is JPuzzleWhiz, though I haven’t seen him here lately. Anyone with more free time and ambition than I have should work his way backward from April 1, 2008 — that’s the last date I looked at consecutively. I did check March 1, February 1, and January 1 of that year but ran out of patience to keep looking at every day. GoComics started in 2006, so I guess it’s possible there were comments in the very early days, but someone else will have to tell us the answer to that question.
I’ll add to the Happy New Year wishes. In honor of the new year, I just spent an hour looking back at past strips to see when people started commenting on Gil Thorp. The earliest comment I found was June 13, 2008 by JSloop. Sometimes, weeks go by with no comments and even on days with comments, there may be only one. We’ve come a long way since then. The earliest commenter I recognize is JPuzzleWhiz, though I haven’t seen him here lately. Anyone with more free time and ambition than I have should work his way backward from April 1, 2008 — that’s the last date I looked at consecutively. I did check March 1, February 1, and January 1 of that year but ran out of patience to keep looking at every day. GoComics started in 2006, so I guess it’s possible there were comments in the very early days, but someone else will have to tell us the answer to that question.