Conventional Wisdom

Well, it’s not like this topic doesn’t hit close to home for me…

This was another page where I started to do caricatures of some of the real personalities at the panel (not all, there wasn’t anywhere NEAR enough paper for ALL those people) but gave up halfway. At one point, I think this was supposed to be Hawk from Applegeeks, Mookie from Dominic Deegan and Brian from Geist Panik. Actually, the Mookie stand-in really does look like the real deal.

(Historical Notes: It just… gets funnier… every year…  Actually, it IS interesting to look back at how different the landscape of internet comics was a decade ago.  Remember, this was before the age of Patreon and all those other forms of direct artists support.  If you didn’t have the means to make and distribute SOME kind of physical goods, monetizing your work was even harder than it is now.  On the other hand, though, a large chunk of the world still didn’t understand what The Internet truly was yet, and a large chunk of THAT chunk was buying advertising space, so a lot of websites were able to pull in higher profits off of advertizing revenue than their sites were truly worth.  And considering that even THEN people were saying that you couldn’t actually live off of ad revenue, that says a lot about where we’re at now.  All that said, CLICK THE PATREON BUTTON, PLEASE!)