Even before the internet, papers weren’t treating comics well so let’s not make the internet out to be the bogeyman. The internet allows me to read my favorite comics from multiple syndicates or just purely web-based ones. I still enjoy Gasoline Alley because I grew up with it, but the internet has also provided me with other wonderful comics there never would have seen the light of day without their artists/writers self-publishing on the internet. The internet has been here for at least a generation – every content provider has had time to figure out how to adapt its business model to it by now. Complaining about it and wishing for the past are wastes of energy and don’t really have you coming off as that smart.
On the other hand, I can’t think of too many jobs where you can just take about a year off from a very visible position with no explanation to the public that has continued to pay you around two bucks per month for your services, and then come back as if nothing had happened. Sounds like comic writing could be a pretty good gig.
The classified ad sections were huge money-makers for newspapers. They’ve all just about disappeared, due to online alternatives such as Craigslist. Newspapers give you the news once a day, and online it’s updated continually. Newspaper circulation falls, advertising revenue drops, the newspapers themselves shrink, and comics get dropped (or are printed so small that no one can read them, in the over-50 demographic that constitutes much of the remaining print readership). The handwriting’s on the wall, Walt.
IT is true that some newspapers were treating comic strips badly before the internet. Maybe we need afternoon newspapers that feature mainly local news and carry good comic strips.
Our local newspaper downsized in personal also downgraded to a smaller building. We stopped the paper. Can access on the internet. Comics online. I found another trend booming working at home on customer service.
AnyFace over 5 years ago
Editorializing? ✨
AnyFace over 5 years ago
Not quite the same thing, but daytime soap operas are aboard a very similar boat. ✨
TlalocW over 5 years ago
Even before the internet, papers weren’t treating comics well so let’s not make the internet out to be the bogeyman. The internet allows me to read my favorite comics from multiple syndicates or just purely web-based ones. I still enjoy Gasoline Alley because I grew up with it, but the internet has also provided me with other wonderful comics there never would have seen the light of day without their artists/writers self-publishing on the internet. The internet has been here for at least a generation – every content provider has had time to figure out how to adapt its business model to it by now. Complaining about it and wishing for the past are wastes of energy and don’t really have you coming off as that smart.
Liam Astle Premium Member over 5 years ago
If only there were places on the Internet where one could read these comics.
MJ Premium Member over 5 years ago
On the other hand, I can’t think of too many jobs where you can just take about a year off from a very visible position with no explanation to the public that has continued to pay you around two bucks per month for your services, and then come back as if nothing had happened. Sounds like comic writing could be a pretty good gig.
seismic-2 Premium Member over 5 years ago
The classified ad sections were huge money-makers for newspapers. They’ve all just about disappeared, due to online alternatives such as Craigslist. Newspapers give you the news once a day, and online it’s updated continually. Newspaper circulation falls, advertising revenue drops, the newspapers themselves shrink, and comics get dropped (or are printed so small that no one can read them, in the over-50 demographic that constitutes much of the remaining print readership). The handwriting’s on the wall, Walt.
BlitzMcD over 5 years ago
Just hoping that the “nowhere to go but here” conclusion does not also apply to the strip at hand.
VaSeeker Premium Member over 5 years ago
The flat-screen monitor doesn’t work well to line bird cages either!
eludio Premium Member over 5 years ago
IT is true that some newspapers were treating comic strips badly before the internet. Maybe we need afternoon newspapers that feature mainly local news and carry good comic strips.
kab2rb over 5 years ago
Our local newspaper downsized in personal also downgraded to a smaller building. We stopped the paper. Can access on the internet. Comics online. I found another trend booming working at home on customer service.
Pedmar Premium Member over 5 years ago
I gladly and proudly subscribe to Go Comics and Comics Kingdom because I feel it’s important to support the artists and writers.
JPuzzleWhiz over 5 years ago
Hey, everybody?
I was at ReadComicOnline.to reading old issues of Action Comics and I ran across these issues that might seem apropos to post links to here:
https://readcomiconline.to/Comic/Action-Comics-1938/Issue-385?id=25559
https://readcomiconline.to/Comic/Action-Comics-1938/Issue-386?id=25560
https://readcomiconline.to/Comic/Action-Comics-1938/Issue-387?id=25561
JPuzzleWhiz over 5 years ago
(The second link shows Superman in an “Old Super-Heroes Home”!)