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DO WENDYIronic it is that the new slogan which began running this week for Wendys is “Do Wendy’s” — MAN! How awesome is that?? Go see for yourself, www.wendys.com — they tell you to DO A SPICY CHICKEN SANDWICH……. hmm… would that burn or chaffe? Just wondering.
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Webcomics Drama Mama: Two weeks ago, Penny Arcade made fun of that Webcomics Documentary thing, and caricaturized Cat Garza. To which people called them MEAN and whatever… bunch of general boo-hooing on about it– Scott McCloud posted a slam at Penny Arcade, than later took it down. Scott McCloud=>PUSSY. Then, the gentle Hippy looking guy, Cat Garza who doesn’t like mean people on the internet just posted on Comixpedia that Jonathen Rosenberg of GOATS was “Stupid” or whatever. Cat, who hasn’t produced a comic in months, now with all the attention given his way as the poster child for the silly documentary, now has his NEW MagicInkwell comics up. Wonder how long he can keep that updating? Cat Garza = Douchebag.
Everybody wants to be a player. To summarize what we’ve learned today:
Scott McCloud = Pussy (who will be seated directly across from Penny Arcade at SanDiego Comicon)
Cat Garza= Douche.
Yirmumah= A bunch of asshats who call people names and jump to conclusions. (thought we’d say it before anyone else did)
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June 15th, 2005 at 12:05 pm
Aww, ease up on McCloud. He posted something in anger, thought better of it, got a response from his peers and retracted it. A “pussy” wouldn’t have the guts to admit they spoke without thinking.
June 15th, 2005 at 12:48 pm
Yeah, the whole drama has been kind of a non-drama. It’s already starting to fade away (until you brought it up again…asshat). It seems like the great big flame wars of yesteryear are going away. I guess that’s a good thing…
b
June 15th, 2005 at 12:51 pm
Nah, you can totally be a pussy for posting something and retracting it. I’d rather people say how they honestly feel. He should have just posted an apology or said he should have thought about it– but instead POOF! he doesnt want it to make him look bad. Which is, well, understandable, because he did look like a giant whining ass over it.
June 15th, 2005 at 2:08 pm
“He should have just posted an apology or said he should have thought about it–”
Dude– that’s exactly what he did say! Did you not read the retraction?
http://www.scottmccloud.com/tycho-apology/
June 15th, 2005 at 2:30 pm
I think DJ means he should have left the published article online. Then again, once you publish something online, you can’t really unpublish it. Scott’s article is already
archived at Yahoo.com.
June 15th, 2005 at 2:38 pm
Yes– thats what I meant. You can’t so easily remove your words just because they make you look like a moron.
June 15th, 2005 at 2:54 pm
Sure you can…it’s the beauty of the internet.
b
June 15th, 2005 at 2:55 pm
I didn’t really see anything wrong with the tycho-apology article… other than the fact Tycho wasn’t ever going to apologize, and that I thought cartoonists would be better natured about the whole parody thing. I wouldn’t say that it made him look like a moron though.
June 15th, 2005 at 3:09 pm
Sure you can…it’s the beauty of the internet.
Dave Winer has a blog where he writes about blogging software, RSS, XML and so on. He would often make inflammatory posts about other people and then unpublish them so that people couldn’t link to the entries and call him on what he had said. This made a lot of people unhappy. Mark Pilgrim was one of those people, and being a clever programming sort of fellow he came up with a clever programming solution. He wrote a script that would monitor Dave Winer’s website and make note of changes to blog entries where posts were edited or removed. Mark released this code under a GPL-license for other people to download and use.
June 15th, 2005 at 3:18 pm
If the average reader weren’t so damn stupid they would see that posts are made with time and day markings. Life is like that, it evolves and so can the internet.
Pussies try to erase life’s little mistakes.
Dare I I compare the trait to that of wealthy people exploiting courts to erase their mistakes?
Oh yes, I dare!
June 15th, 2005 at 3:50 pm
Weblog Ethics, from The Weblog Handbook by Rebecca Blood
1. Publish as fact only that which you believe to be true.
2. If material exists online, link to it when you reference it.
3. Publicly correct any misinformation.
4. Write each entry as if it could not be changed; add to, but do not rewrite or delete, any entry.
5. Disclose any conflict of interest.
6. Note questionable and biased sources.
June 15th, 2005 at 8:43 pm
Look, we made the tabloids.. http://webvsweb.blogspot.com/2005/06/yirmumah-everyone-wants-to-be-player.html
We win!
June 15th, 2005 at 8:56 pm
LOL! I just went to the Wendy’s page, and RIGHT ON THE CENTER OF THE FRONT PAGE is an image which says:
“Do what tastes right”
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Scott Mccloud’s was sort of an okay guy, until he got all romantic on us. You know about all those artists and poets of the romantic era who tried to paint life as some wonderful adventure where there was good and evil and knights and chivalry, and sticking up for the little people. All a bunch of fantasy.
Scott Mccloud’s first comic-guide comic-book was good. It actually worked on comic technique.
His second book is just him spewing a bunch of bullshit. Don’t get me wrong, I think he actually believes this stuff. I think his sense of perspective on the comics world is warped by what he would like it to be; what would fit his image of the “comics revolution”. The truth is, I’m glad that this issue was finally confronted in the comics world, at least slightly, with reality. Scott and his followers like to pretend that there’s some mental box which cartoonists need to be unleashed from, because they’re still doing panel strips. The truth is, there have never been any limitations on comics, it’s just that cartoonists don’t feel like making a fucking mural every time they sit down to make a comic. Nor do they feel like acting weird just for the sake of being “new” and “different” and “challenging”. If anything, this focus on the esthetics of structure takes away from the content of comics. There’s a balance there, a balance which Scott McCloud wrote about in his first book, but completely forgot about in his second. Now they’re all back into the world of romanticism, and I’m glad they’re finally hitting reality again.
June 16th, 2005 at 10:13 am
McCloud’s second book (and first, for that matter) was a springboard for discussion, as he readily admits, and never intended as the be all end all of comics in print or online. Reinventing Comics was a collection of his ideas (with a healthy dose of other people’s ideas) meant to get the brain juices flowing and provide inspiration. It worked for me and several other cartoonists I know who made the leap to doing comics online, something I’ve been doing sporadically for four years.
Scott McCloud never said you HAD to use an infinite canvas, he said you COULD. I’m sure there are online comics out there McCloud reads that are of the usual sort…in fact, I KNOW he reads at least PvP. Is Scott McCloud the authority on comics or online comics? No! But he doesn’t pretend to be.
Both of McClouds books were meant to inspire, NOT to define. That’s how I took it and I’ve done okay by it.
b
June 16th, 2005 at 10:59 am
I have both Understanding Comics and Reinventing Comics and I enjoyed both. Understanding Comics is a better book though, because it’s timeless, while Reinventing Comics is starting to feel dated. What I’m really looking forward to is Making Comics which will be available in early 2006.
In the same way that Scott’s perhaps not the best person to teach anatomy, I don’t think he’s the best person to teach online business, or using the web for comics. I know he’s not the best person to instruct others on blogging ethics. So I’m glad to see he’s going back to what he is really good at, teaching others about making comics!
June 16th, 2005 at 1:57 pm
I sure do love the asshats though!!
Scott McCloud is a pussy, Tycho is a bully…sometimes I wish they would both just shut the Eff up.
That doesn’t keep me from enjoying Penny Arcade though.
Thank you Yirmumah for being the best web comic, and the only one that doesn’t piss me off.
June 20th, 2005 at 2:28 am
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June 21st, 2005 at 3:53 pm
Well, I was too busy inking to follow most of this bru-hah-ha. It all seems pretty silly to me.
It’s so sad that when comics continue to become less important in the eyes of the general public and with fewer people reading comics, we continue to sling mud at each other. But, I’ve said this about a billion times already.
I do have to say, that whether you agree with him or not on any of a number of issues, I believe Scott McCloud remains a comics innovator. He’s helped fight for creator’s rights and he’s gotten folks to think about the possibilities (and the importance) of comics. Plus, he’s a nice guy, too.
September 25th, 2006 at 11:45 pm
I have a recurring nightmare where I am at a cocktail party and I find myself suddenly cornered by Scott McCloud. He accosts me with an endless, non-sensical tirade about micro-payments and the glorious Comic Revolution that his ideas are creating.
As I frantically try to escape, I realize that there are no doors or windows, and the room seems to be shrinking! I usually wake up screaming, covered in sweat.
I had the dream again last night–when I awoke, there was a quarter under my pillow.