It may not be the answer you're looking for, but I simply don't care if people dislike my strips. My primary audience is myself, and if other people enjoy it too, all the better. Regardless of how bad an idea I may have, if I can articulate it on the screen, I save it. You never know when it might strike up another idea that could potentially be better, and if it's not saved, it can be easily forgotten. In the "real world," I think this is what a comic artist would keep a sketchbook for. Since I'm nowhere near organized enough to keep a sketchbook for an online comic site, my library reads like a sketchbook.

Sometimes it's even funny.

As for my own opinion of your strips, I think the ones of yours I like the best are the ones involving clever sight gags like the dolphins and the reindeer. The bad haircut was also a clever idea, but I've seen the joke done once before, a long time ago. It was at its funniest the first time I saw it.

Many of the other strips are simply too esoteric for me to find any humor in. You are doubtlessly referencing things that are out of my realm of experience, and as such, my reaction tends to be similiar to that of cowboy2 in this strip:

[Click to view comic: 'Cowboy physics']

Anyhow, welcome to SC.com!

Oh - I think that's a good way to think of doing comics, and I can't imagine being able to do it any other way. It is like a sketchbook, I think. I was just wondering what people thought about the idea of an audience here, and thanks for replying.

[Click to view comic: 'A Powerful Barnyard Drama by Eugene O'Neill']

I think that for the most part, the audience here tend to be on the geekier side of the equation, and that strips which play up to that sensibility often are the most well recieved.

Now that I think about it, the audience here has changed a lot from when I first arrived. The site's membership used to have a far older average age, and it felt like the age dispersion was more even. It seems to have attracted a lot younger a crowd lately, not that this is a bad thing by itself. You may want to keep in mind that the audience will likely change if you stick around here for any length of time... it's a very fluid demographic.

I really like that latest one, by the way. Still not familiar with the reference, but the absurdity is well played. Kudos!

If you read any of my threads (linked to on my comic page) you'll see that most of the replies are from the same people, these people are my audience. You tend to notice that your comics will strike a chord with certain people and others may just not get it or find it as funny.

I don't think of my audience when I'm making comics, I just make them and somehow it's always the same people that reply.

Those people are awesome.

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Dad was flammable

That's interesting - I can imagine that, and it doesn't sound bad at all.

[Click to view comic: 'They Said It Would Never Happen...']

I've just noticed the search engine, and now I'm going to try to find the most gothic comic I can.

[Click to view comic: 'The Sketches of Dr. Cartonius']

I didn't find what I was looking for yet, so I had to go down to the laboratory. What nature cannot provide, man must take upon himself to create. You scoff, but think of what wonders exist in the cobwebbed attics of our minds - so tantalizingly out of reach? The looming faces of our unfulfilled desires, staring down at us as we lay sleepless in our beds - look into their eyes, and despair!

[Click to view comic: 'The Strange Disappearance of Doctor Cambiari']

Insomniac Theatre Presents:

[Click to view comic: 'The Masque of the Red Death']

[Click to view comic: 'Toby Dammit (Regulars and Decap version)']

The Masque of the Red Death is my fav...

These are tasty as well...

[Click to view comic: 'July 15, 2003']
[Click to view comic: 'Captainth Log, Thtardate 1938.5...']

I also added you to my ever growing list of fav strippers...keep up the good work.

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Think classy, you'll be classy.