The first link in 100 years
In the last couple of days something very strange happened, another webcomic linked to me. This used to be common 20 years ago, but now is so unusual that I looked at my stats and couldn’t work out why they were up for several days in a row. So thank you to the creators of Cassiopeia Quinn. I have been thinking for weeks of instituting a new links list to (free) webcomics I like, but wondered if it wouldn’t just be archaic and weird. Once again, our old friend the cosmos, indeed Cassiopeia itself, has sent me a sign. So I will proceed.
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View on BlueskyI found your work through a link from @ass.golf 🙂
I like the DIZZARM.
Hey, hey, hey… I wish to claim some sort of precedence… From, like 2025!
(There’s a link on your name, but that doesn’t show up here.)
Oh man, I forgot the name of that comic ages ago, this is HUGE for me.
I was there, Gandalf, in the charming days when webcomics linking to one another seemed monumentally important. And in fact my first exposure to Scary-Go-Round came from a guest comic on Achewood in which Amy Chilton married a stuffed bear! It was a wonderful and weird little ecosystem and I miss being a young nerd obsessing over it.
From the Elvis Costello message board, even.
Gad. Not that I consider myself up-to-date on current trends, but I’ve had a webcomics link list for…ever (17 years)? So, go for it, I guess.
It doesn’t seem to be a valid list, as I’m not on it.
Not only do many (if not most) of my 100+ favorite webcomics have such lists, but those lists are why I regularly read 100+ webcomics.
Yes please to a link list. It’s how I discovered Bad Machinery, and Diesel Sweeties, Wigu, American Elf, Boy on a Stick and who else— oh Meredith Gran, Kate Beaton so many. The comic section of my rss reader is woefully thin.
Hmm…I could make an equally sad list of rss readers that have moved on…
i get no traffic from people’s link lists any more. Which may speak to how few of them I am still on.
The new comics are on social media platforms, and they’re mostly gag-a-day, if they even post consistently. I used to regularly read over a dozen webcomics, and I’m down to five. Of those seven+, I only quit one. All the others quit me.
This is great. It’s frustrating that a few of your links stopped posting new pages months or even years ago.
Small world, I love Cassiopeia Quinn!
This made me feel something. It took me back to better (or, at least, different) days. Webcomics were my introduction to comics as a medium and I have a great deal of nostalgia for the vibrant, thriving, comics landscape of the early 2000s. I discovered SGR via a JA guest comic somewhere – I don’t remember where and I’m almost certainly not reading that any more. I shall check out Cassiopeia Quinn.
I discovered Scarygoround through a list of recommended comics at another webcomic I was reading daily (possibly Hark! A Vagrant!), lo these many years ago. I say YES to this revival of an old internet practice.
I sorely miss the days of link lists. Like commenters above it’s how I found nearly all of my core reads, though Bobbins came from a recommendation in the old Sluggy Freelance community forum. Who would I trust more for recommendations than the artists I already know and love?
Before Web2.0 a lot of creators were as focused on impressing and engaging with their artistic peers, it was a real “rising tide” milieu and made for really good content. Then with the advent of socials, maximizing algorithm engagement was the new focus. IMHO this lead to a ‘race to the middle’, maximizing engagement numbers through safe, bland, anodyne content.
Guide us John! Tell us who’s links you look forward to clicking when their new content goes up.
I’ve been enjoying Cassiopea Quinn for a couple of years, now. I suppose I need to update my own recommend-list. I also wish CQ would update more frequently, but I understand this is a tough business.
Nonetheless, it’s well worth reading.
I like posts that recommend comics, like the Cassiopeia Quinn thing was. Lists get outdated really fast and eventually become links to comics that haven’t posted in years. Plus the longer they live there, they become invisible, part of the scenery. Like I can picture the xkcd homepage and know there’s a list of links below the comic, but I haven’t clicked on any of them in years. But I generally read blog posts and if someone I like says “Hey, I’ve been reading this comic lately and it’s great,” I’ll give it a click.
Thank you for saving me a head-scratching search through the archives to discover if Blossom had a disabling injury that I forgot about.