Comments on: An Unusual 10th Anniversary

By: XEREXES

XEREXES — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 13:00:50 +0000

Good post! My own thoughts on it at this Comixtalk post.

I loved reading Sluggy when I found it in 1999. I liked the anarchic spirit of it in those days. Once he started going for drama and taking the characters so seriously it lost a lot of its charm for me though. I still read it but it doesn’t feel all that fresh anymore.

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 14:56:05 +0000

There’s a big Sluggy birthday party at Dragon*Con Saturday night. (And a couple of webcomic panels right before it.) http://www.dragoncon.org/

By: T Campbell

T Campbell — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 13:20:17 +0000

TOUCHE, GOOD SIR.

By: Gary Tyrrell

Gary Tyrrell — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 11:25:37 +0000

Interesting theory on anniversaries, T. Let me know how it works once you’re married. =)

By: T Campbell

T Campbell — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 21:10:43 +0000

Are anniversaries that big a deal in general? I mean, I know there was a party on the occasion of Goats’ 10th, but it doesn’t seem like there’s that much “birthday celebrating” going on with other webcomics in general. Plenty of comics are older or almost as old as Sluggy, so I don’t know if ten years is that remarkable.

That said, I think you’re right that the strip is its own island at this point.

As for Z2H, I stand by my statements. I still think “Comic Creation Nation” gives every sign of collecting intellectual properties the way philatelists collect stamps– and yet I also think that may still be the way some writers can get a good start.

It’s probably worth clarifying that “CCN” is a part of Z2H, not the whole company.

By: Krishna

Krishna — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 20:17:13 +0000

I tried to get into reading Sluggy - but I guess it was never my cup o’ tea. Oh well, happy 10th anniversary anyway.

By: Erg

Erg — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 16:55:56 +0000

I don’t know. I still read sluggy and I read a whole lot of other comics too. Sluggy peaked a few years back to be sure, and is really unlike msot other comics in terms of, well, everything, but I think there are alot of people invested in the characters who stuck with the comic.