All Good Things Come to an End…
… but has it to be that early?
Today is a sad day for me since my favorite webcomic Gill has gone on indefinite hiatus. I guess its creator has burned out after producing five strips per week for several months without seeing a sufficient return of investment (money, fame, whatever).
In the same breath, the website of another one of my favorites, Duxter, has been dead for several weeks now. Since I was expecting something like this might happen after the massive problems Duxter had experienced with its former host, I downloaded all comics before it went offline. If you don’t want to miss this funny comic you can download a -> zip archive of all Duxter strips <- (except for the last four or so).
Several months ago the last strip of the short-lived Whubble was put on its website, another winner of a Webcomic Beaky Award as one of the best new webcomics of 2008 (besides Sandra and Woo and One Swoop Fell).
I guess you shouldn’t take your favorite webcomics for granted. Especially if they are financially unsuccessful “by design”. That means basically any strip without hot chicks or nerdy videogame humor or ones that are not catered towards an enthusiastic niche audience. (The exceptions prove the rule.)
My face managed to successfully contort into a disposition of shock and grievance while saying a stretched out “no”.After you showcased Gill on your site back at the beginning of the year,I was hooked.It’s a good little comic that has nothing to do with the above you mentioned and was literally a breath of fresh air just like your comic.With that said,I do not blame Scott for putting it on hold for whatever reason and hopefully he’ll pick it back up again.Considering how saturated the field of webcomics is,it is very hard to find something decent that doesn’t have to resort to vulgarism or provocative content to gain readership.
Anything online is a fickle beast. Shame though, Gill was a good read. Cuttingly real for a cartoon too.
Still, as Robbie Williams crooned so lubberly way back in the 90’s, ‘y’weeen syum, y’lyuse syum”
It’s a shame that good comics bite the bust online 🙁 But long may S&W continue!
didnt the writer of gill do another strip?
The creator of Gill also does “Retail” which is a syndicated newspaper strip.
NOOOOO!!! Gill, bring me back my Gill!!
*protesting on the floor*
So pretty much, if it’s doesn’t have adult situations, video games, or something that would be classified as ‘furry’, then the web comic is doomed? Well, I guess the ones I read are safe then…
They are not doomed to failure, but they will have an extremely hard time to become successful in a constant uphill battle.