Every Kid Wants a Dinosaur
Christmas humor about a kid who gets a dangerous stocking stuffer.
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Christmas humor about a kid who gets a dangerous stocking stuffer.
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See, that’s the kind of quality feedback we need. I’ve taken your idea and sent it to the webmaster and owners for consideration. I think that makes sense and it’s readers that can make the argument for me as no one listens to a cartoonist on SEO stuff
. Don’t worry about rudeness–I can take it–come at me. Maybe we’re doing something ass-backwards and we need to be told. It’s worse when no one says anything.
Okay, that’s a valid argument; I hadn’t thought that through.
That said, can I make a suggestion? It’s pretty much standard operating procedure on many comic sites to transcribe the comments for both SEO and user searches later. Many, in fact lament the fact they did not do so earlier in their development, and are faced with the daunting task of retroactively doing so (or begging their users to).
If SEO is the only thing you’re aiming for, just transcribe the contents:
[Panel 1] Narrator: Little Billy gets his wish from Santa for a new baby pet dinosaur.
I’m sorry for coming across like so much of a jerk in that previous comment (re-reading it, it’s much harsher than I’d intended). I LIKE the comics you’re creating here, and I like the comments, as I said before, when you’re relating them to past experiences and/or talking about your motivations/intent; it’s interesting to hear from the author/artist. Especially, I don’t want to seem ungrateful or rude.
As both an artist and visual comedian, you must realize how it removes the zing of your punchlines to dumb them down so far. I hadn’t given sufficient thought to your rationale, and it is a good one, but perhaps a more direct approach may serve as well and maintain the shock value better.
Here’s the issue on comments since this is the second reader comment on it and I am the cartoonist. I don’t care much for these obvious captions either. BUT these captions are not for the reader so much as the search engines and the language often has to be dumbed down to focus on the key words. If we could figure a better way we will look into it but that’s how the SEO game seems to work. Blame Google. Comics have a harder time because they are not text articles and the search engines do not read the text that is in the image–because it is an image. Text articles always have an advantage and therefore that’s what this comics site is up against. My previous experience has been with many sites running my comics that the comics are never found unless someone posts a link on Facebook or MySpace with “Hey, look at this funny comic.”
I would bet we may be able to convince the webmaster Attila to drop some of these captions if readers like you will begin linking to the entries and describing them in your own way. Fact is, any reader that can do that and lets us know I will argue with Attila and Levid & Lange on your behalf to see what we can do. I’m always breaking the rules on this site–even though every thing is supposed to be made public you should see the emails I get behind he scenes for some of the comic strip ideas.
I will let the webmaster comment further if they want but there are normally reasons for everything being done.
Y’know, the captions on these (“Christmas humor about a kid…”) are PAINFUL to read. Do you really think your readership is so stupid we need these explained to us? The previous one: “A weightlifter comic strip that shows a severed arm.” is basically a non-funny way of describing exactly what’s in the panel.
Some of them, when you actually write something about your life or experiences, contributes to the content. In these cases however, it feels like you either are REQUIRED to write something as part of the submission process, or that you feel the need to explain to the most minute detail. No joke is funny if it needs to be explained. As an example:
‘A critical feedback left by a user complaining that everything posted is over-explained.’