Comments on: Breaking news: Hi & Lois acknowledges webcomics

By: Strip News 9-25-9 | Strip News | ArtPatient | ArtPatient

Strip News 9-25-9 | Strip News | ArtPatient | ArtPatient — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 03:49:54 +0000

[...] post on five things about comics that have changed in the last five years. And did Hi & Lois slam or side with webcomicdom? I don’t know what the verdict is but merch can sell well if you have the right products and [...]

By: Less Than Three » Archive » Nom de Bafoone

Less Than Three » Archive » Nom de Bafoone — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 05:08:22 +0000

[...] I think I’ve commented before on the schism between webcomics and print comics. Let me explain. No, there is no time. Let me sum up. There are a number of print comics who believe that only those who have been accepted by a syndicate are to be considered “professional”. Webcomicers are merely overrated T-shirt vendors. [...]

By: Strip News 9-25-9 | Strip News | ArtPatient.com | ArtPatient.com

Strip News 9-25-9 | Strip News | ArtPatient.com | ArtPatient.com — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:07:09 +0000

By: THE BEAT » Blog Archive » Kibbles ‘n’ Bits - 9/21/09

THE BEAT » Blog Archive » Kibbles ‘n’ Bits - 9/21/09 — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:13:29 +0000

[...] The venerable comic strip Hi and Lois recently referenced webcomics and the monetization thereof via merchandising in a vaguely humorous fashion, leading to cries from [...]

By: zaymac

zaymac — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 23:26:13 +0000

I’ve always hated Hi and Lois just for the fact that he hasn’t bothered to update the look of his teenagers and dresses them all like 80′s punk rockers or some other stereotype he has casually come across while stumbling across MTV.

This didn’t really upset me like it did others. Sometimes I think webcomickers are a bit sensitive. Now if a strip like Cathy did this though… *Fumes* >:(

By: William George

William George — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 15:01:47 +0000

Breathed: If I was on top of the world at one point, I wouldn’t want to join the t-shirts and good-will crap shoot of cartooning on the web either.

That’d be like being… Poison and having to play at a car show.

Hi & Lois: That webcomic artist is neither a tubby bastard with a goatee, nor a hipster douchebag. A little research please, Hi & Lois creators.

By: Winston Rowntree

Winston Rowntree — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 14:15:54 +0000

I think that when you said “I can’t muster up any emotion, negative or otherwise, over friggin’ Hi & Lois,” you very nicely summed things up indeed. It’s barely even worth making fun of, the newspaper comics mammoth, as it sinks below the tar to extinction, trying to pull its legs out with its head a la homer simpson.

By: p

Sat, 19 Sep 2009 02:56:53 +0000

they have comics on the webs now?!

By: delos

delos — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:22:23 +0000

Eh… Even if you had a movie, you might get 70 mil ticket buyers over a month or so. I’m hard pressed to think of any medium where you’d get 70 mil viewers a day for any kind of entertainment. Chasing those kinds of numbers is pipe dream stuff now.

Still, I wish Mr. Breathed the best.