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- Nov 4, 2017
I keep warning you people about suffering the furry to live and this happens.
The Cad community is still decently populated. Honestly since he became a dad and chilled out (and improved his art) I really can't work up any sort of dislike for modern CAD beyond "eh, its not very good."
I mean Loss.jpg is still a magical moment, the way he burned down the original comic and offed his OC was some super WTF shit. But now its just sorta "not good" as opposed to "really bad".
I remember this steaming pile. And I remember the rabid community of tumblr-trash orbiting it.
again, we really need to stop suffering the furry to live.
I remember BSCB but I guess missed this loss.jpg moment.
It was the golden age because it was a perfect combination of forces.
More importantly there was big changes that made in technology. Electronic drawing cheaper: JPG and GIF patents had been expired so open source graphics problems could use those formats without weird work arounds or trying to reinvent the wheel, compute was cheaper, monitors were cheaper. Hosting was cheap, broadband was be coming a thing, and the 2008 Adpocalypse hadn't happened.
I've bloviated before, but you could put in a couple dozen hours a week around school or work and make as good or better income as a part time job. You really had the option to "try before you buy" and you will see a lot of comics from that time that made it (at least for a while) where the creator will try to keep their day job and constant output before making the jump. And if you didn't, oh well, keep on keeping on till you got sick and tired and ended or dropped it.
I mean look at Mac Hall. That is the entire paltry out put over 6 years of the comic, and the dudes behind it while they didn't end up fabulously wealthy or famous (and Ian has left the comic space all together to do Art stuff in Videogames and other places full time; Matt learned to draw and now does a side project) but it made them both enough scratch to buy houses shortly after college as well as (state school) tuition. They were big enough to get invited to speak at conventions and their output was like 200 comics.
When everything shit itself 2008/2009 that all changed. Webcomics is still a thing you can do, but that semi-pro market isn't there anymore. You are either huge or barely making enough to patreon and furry fetish art commissions to justify the effort. Also you have he fucking algorithm now when trying to make that jump.
People consooom media on reddit, or facebook, or tiktok or w/e. No one is going to 20 different sites to check individual webomics anymore.
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