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Good Internet, Baaaad Internet
May. 4th, 2005 03:18 pmGood Internet:
More than anything else, when I started making graphic novels, it gave me an end run around the usual filters for getting news about my work to comic buyers. While I did get print coverage from Comic Shop News (and it was hugely influential in the success of my books), other print media sources either came out too infrequently (Comics Journal), had a different focus at the time (TCJ, and perhaps CBG), or would never ever carry news about a girly book (Wizard).
(Although I did get Wizard coverage ONCE thanks to my replacement on the Manga Mania (blechtitleackptui) being Carl Horn, always sympathetic to my plots.)
The Internet/WWW has given me the ability to interact in a timely fashion with readers and fans. I suck, and always having at writing and sending letters. Email is a lifesaver for the ADD-addled.
Easy research. Bless St. Google.
Baaaad Internet:
People who use their ability to communicate over the WWW/Internet to spread conflated, unflattering stories about their peers. You know, when not just telling outright lies. Or, say, having a public chewing of a nice piece of twenty-year-old gristle flavored with an alleged slight. Or even telling stories with all the truth juice squished out of them and displaying the "I'm a victim!" pulp.
That's baaaad internet.
I used to get really impatient with people who'd say "There are two sides to every story." But it is true. There are two sides. Sometimes, both sides believe they're right. And sometimes, one side is not being heard, and maybe that's because there is no way to answer ridiculous, spiteful spew without looking exactly like the asshole you've been portrayed as.
Food for thought. Just remember to eat that story fruit whole, kids. Too much pulp'll make ya sick.
More than anything else, when I started making graphic novels, it gave me an end run around the usual filters for getting news about my work to comic buyers. While I did get print coverage from Comic Shop News (and it was hugely influential in the success of my books), other print media sources either came out too infrequently (Comics Journal), had a different focus at the time (TCJ, and perhaps CBG), or would never ever carry news about a girly book (Wizard).
(Although I did get Wizard coverage ONCE thanks to my replacement on the Manga Mania (blechtitleackptui) being Carl Horn, always sympathetic to my plots.)
The Internet/WWW has given me the ability to interact in a timely fashion with readers and fans. I suck, and always having at writing and sending letters. Email is a lifesaver for the ADD-addled.
Easy research. Bless St. Google.
Baaaad Internet:
People who use their ability to communicate over the WWW/Internet to spread conflated, unflattering stories about their peers. You know, when not just telling outright lies. Or, say, having a public chewing of a nice piece of twenty-year-old gristle flavored with an alleged slight. Or even telling stories with all the truth juice squished out of them and displaying the "I'm a victim!" pulp.
That's baaaad internet.
I used to get really impatient with people who'd say "There are two sides to every story." But it is true. There are two sides. Sometimes, both sides believe they're right. And sometimes, one side is not being heard, and maybe that's because there is no way to answer ridiculous, spiteful spew without looking exactly like the asshole you've been portrayed as.
Food for thought. Just remember to eat that story fruit whole, kids. Too much pulp'll make ya sick.
