I find those wire doorway things completely useless for scraping shit from my shoe. Besides, even for the part of the shit that comes off, now you've got a shit covered brush sitting by your front door. How charming.

Just take the fucking shoe off, hobble to the utility sink and blast it with hot water for a minute before going at it with a nasty rag. After that I use an old toothbrush. A quick buff and polish and my wife's... I mean, my shoe is as good as new.

Can we move on now?

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Last time I looked at the comics page in the newspaper most of the comic strips used the same layout that you described. Perhaps because it is a commonly used format for comics?

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I find those wire doorway things completely useless for scraping shit from my shoe. Besides, even for the part of the shit that comes off, now you've got a shit covered brush sitting by your front door. How charming.

Just take the fucking shoe off, hobble to the utility sink and blast it with hot water for a minute before going at it with a nasty rag. After that I use an old toothbrush. A quick buff and polish and my wife's... I mean, my shoe is as good as new.

Can we move on now?

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No.

In certain parts of Baltimore you can still find cast-iron horseshit scrapers by the front steps. This removes the element of bringing the horseshit into your house. I have never actually stepped in horseshit and then used one of these devices but it looks like it would do the job admirably. I don't understand why there aren't more of these things.

But, you know, the problem these days isn't so much with horseshit as it is with dogshit. You can't remove dogshit with a blowtorch. What's the deal? Do dogs eat glue? Couldn't we collect dogshit and market it as some sort of super-adhesive that might prevent space shuttles from falling apart?

(Just trying to show ekpyro how sophisticated American humouuuur can be.)

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"And Wirthling isn't worth the paper he isn't printed on."

As for the CAS thing, I think it would be nice to include in the site some sort of acknowledgement of SC as an inspiration for its concept but there's no reason the site can't move forward and do its own thing. (I don't know if Brad has any patents, which might muddy the appropriateness of the thing, though. Then again, I don't know if Brad was the first to think of a "make your own comic" website.) As far as I'm concerned, the Web is a big, democratic thingamajoobie, and if CAS wants to try to do this things better or differently, they're welcome to try.

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"And Wirthling isn't worth the paper he isn't printed on."

But what if SC wasnt the Inspiration, what if its purly coincodental

No.

MattTM said:

I took that to mean that it was a variation on SC. Maybe I misinterpreted, though.

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"And Wirthling isn't worth the paper he isn't printed on."

Name one newspaper comic that regularly uses yellow narration bars.

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Yeah that's how I took it too wirthling

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The fact that the stupid twat from Maine shares a state with you is just due the accident of his birth.

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Haha, no, I was just commenting on the irony of similarities to stripcreator, and this would be included as one of them.

Name one newspaper comic that regularly uses yellow narration bars.

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It may not be strictly yellow bars, but Mark Trail definitely qulifies. Saturday's and today's would even be picked apart in RMDC for too much narration.

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ken.kaufman@gmail.com

Kaufman, I gotta know, why were you reading Mark Trail? I think Kaddar should put today's comic in the FTC column.

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Peeing sitting down is the gift you give yourself.

Name one newspaper comic that regularly uses yellow narration bars.

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It may not be strictly yellow bars, but Mark Trail definitely qulifies. Saturday's and today's would even be picked apart in RMDC for too much narration.

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It's alright now. The narration bars on CAS are mysteriously no longer yellow.

hahhahaha that's a great FTC, I'm putting it in caption mountain!

I think Matt doth protest too much.

The amount of work that goes into copying something doesn't excuse the fact that you have copied something.

There are a lot of sites that let you create online stories and comics, and you know what? None of them have the look and feel of stripcreator. That's because, you know, they weren't directly copied from the site. The fact that you say you are referring back to stripcreator to make your site "different" illustrates that it was your model to begin with.

And the more you try and defend it on the site you copied the more guilty you sound, and stupid you appear.

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Not that it's my decision to make, but ...

Frankly, I don't care.

If somebody copies the look and feel of this site, or god forbid finds ways to improve on it, all power to them. It is the best form of flattery. And I'm sure all of us will frequent and support the site we like, with the features we like, inhabited by the people we like, and whether that's stripcreator.com, or some other site, who really cares?

Now, if Brad has issues for one reason or another, that's his business, but as a humble user, all I have to say is I like this site. I don't feel any strong need to even look at c-a-s, nor would I likely unless strongly encouraged to do so by people whose opinions I respect. Still, as far as I'm concerned, this net's big enough for two or three comic sites.

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ken.kaufman@gmail.com

You must never have had something you've worked hard on copied. It makes me angry just to see it done.

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Au contraire. Makes me feel good that someone thought highly enough of my work.

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ken.kaufman@gmail.com

You yourself must not think highly of your own work then.

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Vote Jeb Bush 2008

Matt saw Stripcreator before he started work on Createastrip. He's dancing around this issue. I wish he'd just say it: He got the idea from this site and made his own version of it. K, fine. An acknowledgement would be nice.

Anyway, you don't do something like that to a bunch of yobs like us and expect not to get kidded about it. Mess with the clown and you get the whoopie cushion. Or something.

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What others say about boorite!

I'm quite sure brad probably has issues with CAS. I wouldn't have started this thread if I didn't think this was the case.

I just guessed it would probably relieve some of his angst if he thought his users were of the same opinion, which, for the most part, they are.

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Dad was flammable

Yeah. Actually, I have reason to think Matt would feel pretty hurt if the same thing ever happened to him. I wonder why he doesn't say so in public.

Anyway, I think there's only one way to settle this: A strip-off!

Bring me my pasties!

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What others say about boorite!

How do you get that? I think highly enough of my work that I'm willing to share it with the world. I'm not an insecure miser worried that if anyone does anything that looks like what I've done, people will think less of me.

That said, as I said, if Brad himself has issues, that's his business, and I'm hardly telling him what to think or do. But his issues can't be financial -- he's not getting rich off of this, and his sources of compensation (donations from loyal readers, and supplied art) aren't going to take a hit from a rival site that doesn't draw us away.

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ken.kaufman@gmail.com

Without knowing either kaufman or MaKK, I wonder if I could guess which is from academe and which is from advertising.

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What others say about boorite!

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Loathe as I am to utter these words, Makk is right. The similarities in design between Stripcreator and Create-a-Strip are too striking to be coincidental, especially since none of the several other comic creation facilities on the web share such similarities.

That said, I'm with kaufman on the rest of it. If Matt builds a better mousetrap, everyone wins. If he doesn't, who cares? Acknowledgement of the inspiration would be polite, but ultimately that's between him and Brad.

I'm not likely to start making comics at CAS anytime soon. Aside from my ties to the SC community, and SC's currently wider array of art, I think CAS' rules and profanity filter evidence an atmosphere that is different from SC's in ways I don't care for. It's just not for me, though I could see why some people would like it.

DisassociatedArtist -- if you're still reading -- I wouldn't worry too much about the quality of the clip art on a site like this. I don't know about anyone else, but if I really cared about the art, I'd teach myself to draw. The humor is what's important to me, and we've got several thousand strips' worth of proof that even stick figures can carry a joke just fine. However, I do have one criticism of the art on CAS that I think is relevant: the backgrounds are too loud. It should be easier to distinguish the characters against them. My suggestion is to make the objects simpler and the colors paler.

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The what mentioned above is total fiction. Please don't take it seriously!