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I've been into webcomics lately. Not sure why, exactly. It started last summer when I found Questionable Content and read the entire archive in a few days. I lost a lot of sleep and got totally hooked. Now it's on my bookmarks BAR (mac users will understand), on my friendspage in an RSS feed, and because of QC I have found three more awesome webcomics that I caught up on rather quickly and now read regularly. Those would be Yu+Me: dream, Girls With Slingshots, and A Girl and Her Fed. The author of QC linked to GWS and A Girl and Her Fed in newsposts, but I can't even remember how I got to Yu+Me: dream. I think I searched "female webcomics" or something like that, and ended up in lesbian webcomic link index.
Anyway, these comics are awesome and I'm pimping them. They all have backstories, of course, but Yu+Me: dream and A Girl and Her Fed have particularly long/far-reaching ones, and these comics will make no sense to you without reading the archives first. Yu+Me: dream, especially. Don't even try to read that one without archive-diving first. QC and GWS are better once you read the archives, enjoyable without doing so, but you will probably not get hooked without the archives.
I realized today that QC, the most "mainstream" of my webcomics, is also the only one with a male author. It is also the only one with a huge community attached to it, outsourced merchandising, and, as far as I know, full-time job status for the author. This bothers me on a feminist level, and hence, I pimp the female-authored comics. Not that I don't love QC--it is still my favorite--we just need bigger audiences for female writers.
Um, yes.
/ non-academia geek rant
Anyway, these comics are awesome and I'm pimping them. They all have backstories, of course, but Yu+Me: dream and A Girl and Her Fed have particularly long/far-reaching ones, and these comics will make no sense to you without reading the archives first. Yu+Me: dream, especially. Don't even try to read that one without archive-diving first. QC and GWS are better once you read the archives, enjoyable without doing so, but you will probably not get hooked without the archives.
I realized today that QC, the most "mainstream" of my webcomics, is also the only one with a male author. It is also the only one with a huge community attached to it, outsourced merchandising, and, as far as I know, full-time job status for the author. This bothers me on a feminist level, and hence, I pimp the female-authored comics. Not that I don't love QC--it is still my favorite--we just need bigger audiences for female writers.
Um, yes.
/ non-academia geek rant