A chatroom of their own.
My first feature for Comixpedia is up; it’s about how the internet is rather dramatically affecting the ability of cartoonists to find each other and hook up in ad hoc support groups and interstitial schools through such silly, simple tools as email, chat, and LiveJournal. And how these quotidian tools are more revolutionary for comics online than such (admittedly nifty) ideas as Flash-based panel transitions and infinite canvasses. —Email: it’s still the killer app.
Anyway, the piece is essentially a reimagining of this earlier entry, about the Pants Pressers; I also look at a group of cartoonists, writers, and filmmakers who’d met in college and are handily maintaining their scattered, post-academe connections online. And right now I’m wishing I’d read this Shirky piece before I’d written either—not that I want to get hardcore into social dynamics and group theory, and not that I’d want to dwell on acrimonious dissolutions, but still. It’s a great piece, and an important vector to mull over in this vague regard.
But enough with the dwelling and mulling! How about some further Comic-Con post-mortemry? One of the kings of con reports has finally posted his take—complete with shots of what Steve Lieber was up to when he wasn’t in San Diego. Enjoy.
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