{"id":601,"date":"2004-12-17T15:48:34","date_gmt":"2004-12-17T20:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/creator\/2004\/12\/17\/601\/"},"modified":"2004-12-17T15:48:34","modified_gmt":"2004-12-17T20:48:34","slug":"601","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2004\/12\/17\/601\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve talked about syndicated comics versus webcomics<\/a> before. I am excited and pleased by the accelerating collapse of comic strip syndication; like Matt Boyd (whom I quoted in that post, and whose writing makes me doodle our names together on my binder), I am interested in watching it die.<\/p>\n

So it’s very, very funny to me that today, I received an unsolicited mass email–yes! spam!<\/i>–asking me to “help save The Norm<\/a>,” a syndicated comic strip whose creator just cut himself loose from King Features. It’s also kind of conflicting.<\/p>\n

On the one hand, Michael Jantze is doing what I believe all syndicated comics should and will do to survive and prosper–taking back his rights from a syndicate and using the web as his primary distributor. I want to laud that kind of behavior. On the other hand, Jantze is the same guy who infamously<\/a> took the syndicates’ side in the “Is Print Dead” forum at last summer’s Comic Con, so seeing him thrash the way Penny Arcade did a few years ago fills me with vicious glee.<\/p>\n

I should add that the spam email did not appear to be sent to me by anybody directly associated with thenorm.com, but rather by a fan named Adam who probably shouldn’t be abusing his company address like that. I think this only makes the situation more pathetic.<\/p>\n

Anyway, as I and a great many other people knew would happen, PvP is now being published for free five times a week in the Philadelphia Evening Standard. Penny Arcade, a strip which once nearly died in its aforementioned thrashings (at the hands of a kind of neosyndicate), is on track to raise more than $300,000 for this year’s Child’s Play<\/a>. On the subject of who’s winning, for once, Websnark and I are in complete agreement.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve talked about syndicated comics versus webcomics before. I am excited and pleased by the accelerating collapse of comic strip syndication; like Matt Boyd (whom I quoted in that post, and whose writing makes me doodle our names together on my binder), I am interested in watching it die. So it’s very, very funny to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-angst","category-toons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}