Comic Strip Tournament

[moe4eyed]

Based on the results of the last poll, I'm proud to announce the Comic Strip Tournament. A big thank you to everyone who helped me pick this out. It was certainly good for me to make that entire list; I'll have plenty ideas for when the next tournament rolls around

Comments

[strandist]

Does PhD qualify despite it being semi-weekly rather than truly daily?

[moe4eyed]

PhD seems pretty awesome, but if let it in there's no reason not to let, say, Penny Arcade in. Is PhD even published offline?

[strandist]

Actually, it is. It was first published in the Stanford Daily around 1998, long before there was an internet site for it. To date, it is still published there and in many other university newspapers, including the Technique here at Georgia Tech. This makes it more of a print comic that eventually got a website than a typical webcomic.

[moe4eyed]

Ah, that makes sense. I think a similar thing happened with Nukees.

[koobifoora]

Harmless Free Radicals

http://www.lulu.com/grassdog

[moe4eyed]

I never realized that Harmless Free Radicals was daily; I guess I always assumed it was weekly. It'll be in the tournament, though to be honest it'll probably end up with a rather low seed due to my complete unfamiliarity with it.

[fenmere]

I try to keep it daily, though at the moment it is currently M-W-F, online. I had it going daily since early November there, and it was well worth it! I hope to work back up to that speed shortly. The Whatcom Indy, of course, is only weekly.

I gave you some of my honest votes in the first round, abstaining from my section. But obviously you may want to discount my votes anyway, because they could be assumed to be strategic. The "abstain" option is pretty damn cool, as it allows me to watch the voting without tipping it.

Thanks!

[moe4eyed]

The "abstain" option was almost entirely borne out of self-interest. You wouldn't think that counting up how many people in total voted in any given round and then subtracting the number who voted in a particular match to determine how many people abstained would be that hard, and you'd be right, but that was still apparently more effort than I was willing to put in.

[marmot_nation]

I'd like to see webcomics included, as print comics are sort of a dying art form.

[moe4eyed]

The ban on webcomics was purely a practical matter. I have at least a passing familiarity with almost all of the successful newspaper comics, at least enough that I feel comfortable ranking them. The same is not true for webcomics. I know next to nothing about Achewood or Something Positive, for example, but am a large fan of (the I believe much less popular) Superosity. Basically, I think there's a good chance that if I were to seed webcomics, I would screw it up, and hence the tournament is limited to print.

I accept this topic

[gunsmcgee]

Dinosaur Comics was apparently in some print papers. Honestly, I just want to quote it for every single match up I vote in, no matter the comic.

um

[gunsmcgee]

Just a friendly reminder