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Webcomic artistry and fandom research
Bearer:
Hey everyone! I'm currently writing an 8-10 page paper that may turn into the start of a future documentary on web comic fandom and I'm wondering if I can ask you all to aid me in my research here. Basically, Questionable Content is where I started reading most of the comics I keep regular with (as well as most of the music I listen to), and these forums are pretty much a really good example of how a web comic fan base works. With all that, would you all mind maybe answering a few questions for posterity?
1) How did you find out about Questionable Content?
2) Do you read any other web comics and which ones?
3) Why post on this forum? Is the web comic the only reason?
4) What is the community like here?
5) Do you feel like Jeph listens to us as fans? (*ahem* do you?)
6) Is Questionable Content cool?
Thanks everyone in advance! To my knowledge there haven't been too many legit studies about web comics as a medium nor about their fanbases. I'm writing this for a senior level class dealing with fan psychology, but I hope to turn my love of the medium into something more some day, probably a documentary some day down the line
celticgeek:
Here goes:
1) I began to read "Questionable Content" when it showed up in
"Unshelved", around QC comic number 691
2) I read QC, Unshelved, XKCD, Eviscerati, and Joy of Tech
3) I started posting in response to the comic, but enjoyed most
of the other topics as well, and I learned lot about indie
music.
4) I feel like the community (right now) is a nice friendly
place, and I enjoy hearing about everyone's thoughts on
various topics
5) Most, I don't think Jeph listens to us, and that's mostly a
good thing
6) Yes, I think QC is very cool
Kugai:
1) How did you find out about Questionable Content?
I was shown QC by an Online Friend a few years back, but didn't join the Forum for almost a couple of years after I started reading it.
2) Do you read any other web comics and which ones?
Angels2200 (But that's stalled at the moment)
Flaky Pastry
Menage a Three
Eerie Cuties
Magic Chicks
The Lounge
Collar 6
Sandra and Woo
Namer Deiter
Upheaval
PPG Doujinshi
Grim Tales
3) Why post on this forum? Is the web comic the only reason?
Originally, it was for the Comic, but there are other interests there for me as well in the Forum
4) What is the community like here?
Not bad actually. A bit silly at times, but I like the atmosphere and the comradery displayed here.
5) Do you feel like Jeph listens to us as fans? (*ahem* do you?)
I'd say very rarely these days. This Forum almost drove him nuts at one stage and he threatened to close it down. I think he pops in occasionally, but the Comic is still Jephs and will go the way he wants it, but he may take on the odd occasional idea or suggestion - IF it's a good one.
6) Is Questionable Content cool
Yes. But then, I'm biased. :-D
Soulsynger:
1) How did you find out about Questionable Content?
Randomly when I got bored of Applegeeks and PvP a long while back. I think it was through a link on some other webcomic.
2) Do you read any other web comics and which ones?
Lots.
CTRL+ALT+DEL by Tim Buckley
Looking For Group & Least I Could Do by Ryan Sohmer and Lar Desouza
Original Life by Jay Naylor
XKCD, Piled Higher and Deeper, Dumbing of Age, Adventures of Dr. McNinja, Unsounded, Penny Arcade, VG Cats, Sequential Art, Bunny, MegaTokyo, Cyanide and Happiness... and I've read through a dozen of no longer updated webcomics' archives. (best of which - I though - was FreakAngels)
3) Why post on this forum? Is the web comic the only reason?
Getting my thoughts about the comic out of my head is just one reason.
The other is the people I don't really get to know but who make awesome jokes and are an inspiring source of trivial knowledge about ... anything really.
Plus there is NO one in any of my social circles that reads webcomics... so I'm stuck with the guys here.
4) What is the community like here?
Elitist jerks, mostly. It takes a LOT of getting used to the tone and structure. Its uncanny how much of the comic's "tone" is reflected in the community.
(What I mean is there are a lot of jokes being made that to understand them one has to know a lot of trivia about the comic and even more about f.e. modern physics....)
5) Do you feel like Jeph listens to us as fans? (*ahem* do you?)
Nope. He better not and I hope he doesn't. Where'd the fun be in that?
6) Is Questionable Content cool
Its indie. So ironically, yes. Truthfully, no. And by that I mean "who cares?". Also, waffles.
DSL:
1) How did you find out about Questionable Content?
Not sure, really. Stumbled across it a few times, finally got hooked when the story started arcing in dramatic directions (and I noticed the art had taken a huge upward turn in quality), then archive binged a couple times. Got hooked.
2) Do you read any other web comics and which ones?
I'll go out of my way to read Girls with Slingshots, whatever John Allison has going at the moment, Quantum Vibe, Girl Genius, Spacetrawler. I look in on Escape from Terra to see if a story is going on or if it's in Author Rant mode.
3) Why post on this forum? Is the web comic the only reason?
This forum, whether as a result of self-policing or the mods, is the closest I've seen to what I wish Internet forums were like: Mostly good-natured discussion and disagreement with a healthy leavening of humor, and the apparent mental age is the highest I've seen. I'm actually eager to see what certain forum members have to say about this topic or that. Also, the caption contest is fun.
4) What is the community like here?
See No. 3: Community members are mostly respectful of each other's views, and a great range of knowledge and life experiences that inform their posts. The great majority of the time, it's not hard to imagine this forum (at least the 'COMIC' part of it) as a conversation among friends in a comfortable place.
5) Do you feel like Jeph listens to us as fans? (*ahem* do you?)
He'd better not. It'd ruin the comic.
6) Is Questionable Content cool?
Depends what you mean by that. If you mean "the 'right' other people like it," I don't care. If you mean, "determined to be its own thing, as best it can, without being the Ping Pong ball of the public opinion game," then yes.
(good luck on your project, whatever you end up doing with it)
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