[penguicon-general] A couple of thoughts about programming

[Catherine Olanich Raymond]

On Wednesday 25 April 2007 4:02 pm, you wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 April 2007 10:48 pm, Catherine Olanich Raymond wrote:
> > On Tuesday 24 April 2007 10:15 pm, you wrote:
[snip]
>
> Webcomic artists are perfect for us.  It's squarely between tech and fen,
> they've got a built-in way to advertise their appearance to their fan base,
> and they generally enjoy the con.
>
> (They're also generally not media types where you need to wave around
> thousands of dollars to get their attention, but give it 5-10 more years
> and we'll see the Scott Adams/Jim Davis types emerge.  The Penny Arcade
> guys are already nosing into that territory, and you could sort of consider
> Dilbert to be a webcomic in the right light...)
>
> I'd love to invite the guy behind Irregular Webcomic, but he's in
> australia. Rich Berlew of the Order Of the Stick (http://www.giantitp.com/)
> isn't, though...

I'd like to see us invite the guy who does xkcd.  Rich Berlew isn't a bad 
match for us, either.  And how about the Megatokyo guy?

-- 
Cathy Raymond <cathy at thyrsus.com>

"You've got to have the proper amount of disrespect for what you do."  
-- George Mabry