{"id":747,"date":"2012-01-19T11:06:46","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T16:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/?p=747"},"modified":"2012-01-19T11:06:46","modified_gmt":"2012-01-19T16:06:46","slug":"the-worst-part-of-web-comics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2012\/01\/19\/the-worst-part-of-web-comics\/","title":{"rendered":"The worst part of web comics"},"content":{"rendered":"

is that they can sometimes live hard and die too soon.\u00a0 The ability of any story teller to put up their stuff as they spin it and countless web hosts to help them means that a lot of stories die half lived…forever frozen in history and the internet archive and destined to frustrate eager readers in perpetuity.\u00a0 This is a whole heck of a lot different from published comics that generally have a proposed story line and map to completion before presentation to potential readers.\u00a0 Webcomics are like swimming in comickers head soup–right there inside the ideas that make the stories, ideas that sometimes have no ending in sight.<\/p>\n

As far as I can tell, this is exactly what happened with Hanna is Not a Boy’s Name.\u00a0 <\/em>I stumbled onto it late, maybe a year or so from its first page and long after a devoted following had erected a facebook page<\/a> for it.\u00a0 I bookmarked the site, subscribed to the RSS feed and checked back often as it continually did not get updated…not even a news item from the author.\u00a0 I wanted more, damn it!\u00a0 So I checked back again just as I was gathering my best of webcomics list and found out that the site had completely vanished.\u00a0 It was gone…I could not even scroll through the pages I had already seen, and as I fumbled through Google results I found it for sale!<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 Oh my luck!\u00a0 Volume 1!\u00a0 I had wanted to possess it anyway…I am so giggly.\u00a0 I am waiting for the mail to arrive.\u00a0 (UPDATE:\u00a0 arrived and I am so ecstatic!\u00a0 Can’t wait for more.)<\/p>\n

Ok, but not every stalled and deleted idea has a happy ending; case in point:\u00a0 Gjerde Sha:\u00a0 Part Time Zombie<\/a>.<\/em>\u00a0 It is markering genius!\u00a0 It is beautiful!\u00a0 It is not updated since June!<\/p>\n

And, somehow even sadder, the comics that are killed…by an announcement that they will not continue.\u00a0 I was just getting all sewn into Will Work for Blood<\/em><\/a> and now it is over.\u00a0 It was so promising, it was mysterious and bleak, it is over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

is that they can sometimes live hard and die too soon.\u00a0 The ability of any story teller to put up their stuff as they spin it and countless web hosts to help them means that a lot of stories die half lived…forever frozen in history and the internet archive and destined to frustrate eager readers… Continue reading The worst part of web comics<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,4],"tags":[6,69],"class_list":["post-747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-comics","tag-comics","tag-webcomic"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":62,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2011\/09\/15\/24-hour-comics-day\/","url_meta":{"origin":747,"position":0},"title":"24 hour comics day","author":"leems","date":"September 15, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"I've heard of this, somewhere, on someone's tumblr or deviant art page at some point in time, but I never remembered to figure out what it is, which is weird because I like participating in online creative challenges.\u00a0 Never remembered to figure it out until now, that is.\u00a0 I just\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blog"","block_context":{"text":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/category\/blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2011\/01\/23\/looky-looky\/","url_meta":{"origin":747,"position":1},"title":"Looky Looky","author":"leems","date":"January 23, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Ok, so I didn't manage to get anywhere close to my goals for NaNoWriMo and then I just vanished off the face of the internets for a little while.\u00a0 I've been a little busy, what can I say.\u00a0 But of all the creative things that I should have been doing,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blog"","block_context":{"text":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/category\/blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":731,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2012\/01\/10\/indie-comic-etsy-haul-1\/","url_meta":{"origin":747,"position":2},"title":"Indie comic Etsy haul #1","author":"leems","date":"January 10, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"The Filigree - Martin \u00d8bakke and Celena Cavala create this fabulous fairy newspaper complete with advertisements, classifieds, and photographs.\u00a0 And, as far as I can tell, all the photographs for the stories are of characters they have created in doll form.\u00a0 Do I have to say this is a fabulous\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blog"","block_context":{"text":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/category\/blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Snapshot.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":7406,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2016\/10\/01\/changes-round-here\/","url_meta":{"origin":747,"position":3},"title":"Changes round here","author":"leems","date":"October 1, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"If you have clicked around on the site lately,\u00a0 you may have noticed some changes, especially where the comics are concerned.\u00a0 In an attempt to raise the profile of the comics, I have given them their own mini-sites within the LeEMSmachine. 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