Things I obsess about so that you don’t have to: the relative strengths, weaknesses and punchline-ic comedic differences between “Gaimanda,” “Neimanda,” “Neilanda,” “Amaneil,” “Gaimer” and “Palman.”

Well, maybe not “Palman.” That just sounds dirty.

Indecision. I haz it.

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Holy carp! I won first place for editorial cartoons in the National Newspaper Association Better Newspapers contest, daily division!

My editor just told me. I’m not sure which ‘toon it was:

http://www.nna.org/eweb/dynamicpage.aspx?webcode=bncbnac

http://www.nna.org/eweb/dynamicpage.aspx?webcode=bncwinnera200928

John

If you can see this strip, congratulations. The site’s been overwhelmed with traffic, apparently, causing the problems of the last few months. New server move expected soon…VERY soon, I hope…

DORK ADDENDA: Yes, I realize Matt’s Tweet is longer than 140 characters. Let’s just suspend disbelief and say he doesn’t actually Tweet the ellipses that drives the timing between panels 3 and 4, shall we.

I’m trying to get back to three strips a week. While I’m still pushed for time, I’ve been really unhappy with the flow of the strip while I pulled it back to twice a week (even if that was only intended as a temporary thing during Louisa’s first year). We’ll see.

In some bad news, Comics Buyers’ Guide has had to cut back on expenses due to the economy, and alas, alack, one of those expenses was Dork Tower. The editor says this is hopefully just a temporary thing, and given the feedback I get from the CBG staff and editors, I’m hoping so as well. Yet, for the first time in ten years, Dork Tower is exclusively a web-only strip. Or “webcomic,” as I guess the kids are saying these days.

This is a paradigm I’ve yet to get used to.

This is also a business model I need to figure out. While I’m notoriously unmotivated by money, the fact that there is now a Daughter involved and a College Fund to be funded puts a spin on things that wasn’t there five years ago.

On the plus side, while there are still massive slowdowns on the Gamespy server, at least the move to the new server is expected to be VERY soon.So hopefully the site should be super-fast and super-spiffy super soon.