[penguicon-general] A couple of thoughts about programming

[Mike Ward]

At the risk of suggesting things people have already suggested...

While on the topic of web comics, has anyone thought about Greg Dean
of reallifecomics.com? I saw that Iliad had already been invited (arg,
how could I miss that...), so I think all my favorites other than Real
Life have been mentioned (assuming we get the guy from xkcd).

On 4/25/07, Molly de Blanc <majorarcanna at gmail.com> wrote:
> We did Fred, the megatokyo guy, before. It might not be a bad idea to try
> and invite him again as a nifty. I think it's getting to the point of my
> suggesting a Guests thread.
>
>
> On 4/25/07, Catherine Olanich Raymond <cathy at thyrsus.com> wrote:
> > 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
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> --
> Faithfully yours,
>
> molly.
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