Webcomics 102
So, at the Comic-Con, I attended all of the webcomics 10X panels. Prior to Webcomics 102, I had shown a few people some sample strips of my and Ben's comic. Among them were Scott Kurtz and R. Stevens III, both of whom were on the Webcomics 102 panel. Kurtz had some feedback for us that was rather, well, harsh. Some of it I agreed with, some of it I didn't.
Webcomics 102 was on finding your audience. Since it got opened up for questions right off the bat, I raised my hand, and asked what the first step should be. I think Kris Straub said, "make a webcomic", and there were a few other brief answers of that sort (anyone have a recording? I'd welcome a more accurate transcription than my memory). Kurtz recognized me and said something along the lines of "I want to give him an answer to his question because I saw his comic, and I gave him some harsh criticism before". Then R. Stevens recognized me, remembered the comic, and said something along the lines of "I saw that comic, it was pretty good." It was at this point that Kurtz shook his head and made a "not so much" face.
Which is all well and good. I just wish one of them had said the name of the comic or the url, so that people would be like, "hey what was that comic Kurtz didn't like? I'll go look at it" and then maybe they'd like it. Or hate it, but become regular readers.
At any rate, I'm not trying to make a big deal out of this or anything, I just made the comment in the notes for the strip the other day, and wanted to make the story clearer since I'd been asked about it a couple of times.
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