Comments on: Year End Thoughts, Part Four

By: Fleen » Fleen Book Corner: LDV1

Fleen » Fleen Book Corner: LDV1 — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 15:22:46 +0000

[...] Lord, I loves me some Little Dee. Chris Baldwin does a sweet (but not treacly), sharply funny (but not mean-spirited) (except for Vachel) strip that my youngest nieces and nephews can enjoy right along with evil-hearted ol’ me. And now his first collection of Little Dee comics is out (temporarily sold out, in fact). It covers the full run of the strip from inception to the 3 month hiatus that Baldwin took at the end of last year. It’s just as good in dead-tree form as day-by-day (maybe better, because your mouse finger won’t cramp up clicking “next” all the time). The printing is crisp and beautiful (really deep ink saturation on the beautifully-colored front and back covers, too). So if we all just accept that the book is wonderful, isn’t this review superfluous? No, because two things about LDv1 raise interesting questions: [...]

By: Pat Ryan

Pat Ryan — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 21:07:44 +0000

I love Little Dee. Great stuff. I do take umbrage with the newspaper comic strips being tripe. There are a lot of great ones that never see the light of day because of bad buyers at the newspapers. For example, Ink Pen, Pooch Cafe, Pearls Before Swine, Big Top, Monty, Bad Reporter, Lucky Cow, Tom the Dancing Bug, and there’s a new one called Retail that looks promising, too.

By: Jeff Lowrey

Jeff Lowrey — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 17:33:26 +0000

And yet, Baldwin is clear that he’s accepting the limitations of newspaper comicry (comicery? comicary?) with Little Dee.

But he is still trying to make the best comic he can within those limits.

If Little Dee got more readers through syndication than it has online - would you change your mind?

I’m not in any way disagreeing that this is not a great comic, and that it’s not great news that he’s updating again.

I just think that it’s a good idea to discuss this nebulous ‘webcomic’ distinction - and Little Dee is a great vehicle to do so.

By: Gary Tyrrell

Gary Tyrrell — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 15:24:34 +0000

Excellent question. There’s not really a clear definition that says “This is a webcomic” or “This isn’t.” One could argue that PvP or Sinfest aren’t webcomics because it’s clear that they were originally intended for syndication. But the fact that the primary distribution model of Little Dee (and PvP, for that matter) is the web, despite the availability of the strip for papers, makes it a webcomic.

All of which pales in comparison to the fact that it’s back.

By: Jeff Lowrey

Jeff Lowrey — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 06:18:35 +0000

So, despite how amazingly good Little Dee is…

If it’s intended for newspapers…

Does it really count as a webcomic?

I’m just asking.

By: Michael Kinyon

Michael Kinyon — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 15:38:45 +0000

I too am glad Little Dee is returning, but I’m much more looking forward to the return of Bruno. When you ask if I discovered a better webcomic than Little Dee this year, the answer is yes: I discovered Bruno.

By: lucastds

lucastds — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 19:28:17 +0000

That’s a beautiful comic. I love the little gems hidden within.

By: David Bishop

David Bishop — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 18:12:37 +0000

Wahoo!!!!!! I am not normally a big buyer of books (I’m one of those “have 15 comic-related t-shirts and always looking for more” kind of guys), but I will be all *over* a Little Dee collection. And thanks very much for the reminder. That bookmark can be moved back from the ‘Weekly or so’ folder to ‘Daily’.

Seriously, I just said ‘wahoo!’ out loud. Does that make me a comic geek?