Get Free Comics In Your Email!

Hi Everyone!

I see from your comments that you've been missing the blog, so I thought I would write about our latest news. 

Today, we launched a free registration system so you can receive one free comic in your email each day.   Signing up for the service is free and easy! First, go to GoComics.com, then select the comic you want using the drop-down menu at the top.  Once your comic loads, look below for "Sign up for ...  in your email."  Just follow the steps from there to get started.  Beginning the next day, you'll get your selected comic in your email each morning! Oh- did I mention it's free?

If you want more than one comic delivered to your email, consider joining My Comics Page, which enables you to receive any and all of our comics in your email, as well as access to the archives.   All of this can be yours for only $11.95 per year - that's less than a dollar a month for all the daily laughter you can handle!

Also, we've added some great comics to our line-up.  Be sure to check out Winnie the Pooh, Space is the Place, and On a Claire Day.    

Enjoy!

Morgan (your friendly customer service rep)

Comments

[andy]

What is with that Comcast pop-up ad? There's no way to close it.

[Rob]

Is this a blog or just a marketing site?

[cowgirl]

Geez, doesn't anyone have anything nice to say? I think Morgan is doing a great job :)

[Gilmar]

Bacana o site disponiblizando as tiras comicas em quadrinhos.
apreciei, parabnes pelo trabalho. Um abraço.

[R Pyle]

Ok, I think "Um abraço" means "a hug". So someone said something nice, just not in English.

[Rob]

More tumbleweeds blow by....

[whisper]

Crap. I'll do the blog for you for nothing. Here goes:

1) Comics can be fun.
2) Technology is a fickle mistress.
3) I like ponies.

See ya tomorrow!

[Rob]

My turn to do the blog...

1. Comics are a fickle mattress
2. Technology is fun
3. Ponies like fickle fun.

By the way there's an interesting article on the "Pearls before Swine" guy at http://www.napavalleyregister.com/articles/2006/09/02/news/local_top_story/iq_3579882.txt

[Rob]

Has anyone looked at the comics on Comics Sherpa? (Comicssherpa.com).
A lot of them seem lame but there are a few that are pretty funny. Have a look. See which ones are good and which are bad.

[whisper]

Bad holiday weekend for me. I have to amend my previous post. #'s 1 and 2 stay the same but as for that last one.

3. Ponies are overrated. Unless they're C. Thomas Howell as Pony Boy in "The Outsiders." I always felt like the nicknames were really poor in those SE Hinton books, like what a housewife would think was clever, but certainly not a teenager. Especially ones that were supposed to be tough. Soda Pop? Pony Boy? Socs (pronounced SO-ISH)? Come on, Hinton. Haven't we had enough of that BS?

[Anon]

Not a big fan of the 2-day archive. What gives? And what happened to the colour? Things really are going downhill here.

[Rob]

You assume that things were at the top of the hill.
Really, everything has been resting comfortably at the bottom of the hill since the start.
The 2 day archive is for those with short term memories.
The color? What color? This is a monocrome site.

[James]

I miss the good ole' days of reading Calvin and Hobbes all the way back to the begining. At least I got most of it in. So much for what was once a decent site.

[Spot]

Is it only me or do others also get annoying popup advertisement with a JavaScript asking for installation of antivirus software on the Calvin & Hobbes site?

[Rob]

It's only you. Everyone else loves popup ads.

[Nick]

OMG Ponies!!!

[Rob]

Stop with the ponies!
They're just small quadrapeds with equine envy. Their dream is to be in a rodeo but they have to content themselves working birthday parties, barmitzvas, and plowing the fields of the midget Amish.

[whisper]

Greetings! Today I intend to blog the hell out of this blog! So tighten up your bootstraps and get yourself a piping hot mug of butterscotch!

[Nick]

So now Bill Amend's Foxtrot website (http://www.foxtrot.com/) is broken, as well as the gocomics Foxtrot page. Did you guys just temporarily break something, or decide to finally break everything by switching exclusively to Flash?

[ROB]

NO MORE FLASH COMPLAINTS!!!!
If you'd upgrade your computer from your "Etch-A-Sketch 2000" you wouldn't have any problems.

Try shaking your computer.

[whisper]

Hi folks! You may remember me from a few blog posts earlier. I'm here to tell you about a fabulous new opportunity. Do you like fun? Would you like to make your friends jealous? Well, then just sit back, relax and enter the sublime world of online comics.

Sure there's an ad or two, but you're getting them for free so quit your griping. I suggest starting with a fabulous strip I like to call Through Thick and Thin. After a quick browse of this strip, you'll be on the verge of enjoyment! You'll also come to the conclusion that ANYONE can do a strip!

[Rob]

While we are on the subject of online comics go to Comics Sherpa's site (www.comicssherpa.com) and check out a few of my favorite reads there.
44 Union Avenue
Mythtickle
Half Baked
The Super Amazing Duo of Justice

The guy who does Mythtickle is the one that "won" the opportunity to redraw the defunct comic strip "Unifit (if you remember the hubbub about Scott Adams (Dilbert guy) trying to preform artistic CPR on the strip for his friend. Of course it didn't pan out in the end and "Unfit" was Kavorkianed.

[WSConner]

Instead of comics in my e-mail, I would settle for updating the comments you list every day or posting some note as to why not. goComics is definitely a step down from uComics

[Nick]

Rob:

That sound you hear is the noise made when something goes over your head. Fast.

It's not that my computer can't run Flash. In fact, it can. The problem with serving comics with Flash is more one of principal and trying to prevent a technology from overstepping it's bounds and being misused, so to speak.

Ever since Flash was discovered by the brainless hordes of marketing zombies, it has been abused. Full-screen unclosable ads, popups, animations, browser-takeovers, etc. Flash has taken in-your-face, shoot-the-dog, force-fed advertising to a new level. Sure it has it's place: it does well with multimedia such as movies and music, and of course games, but serving a comic? The only "valid" reasons are that it's (1) an attempt to prevent people from stripping comics from the page, (2) saving them to their computers, and (3) force visitors to have Flash enabled. In the first two cases, it will be ineffective; however, the third motive means GoComics can promise it's advertisers that 99% of users on it's site will have Flash enabled, and this will lead to even more extreme Flash abused advertising (and money in GoComic's pocket at the expense of it's users).

I (and many others) do not use Flash because it's downsides outweigh it's positives most of the time. If goComics decides to go exclusively Flash, then they will lose readers. It also means that artists like Amend won't be able to link to an image of *his* work from his homepage.

So fine, while I shake my computer like an Etch-A-Sketch, you can continue to play sheep and believe whatever people like GoComics and their advertisers tell you is best.

*Note: I'm not even discussing people who use operating systems or browsers that do not support Flash.

[rueben]

Your only expense is incovenience. Do you think sites run on altruism? It's a business, not a museum.

If you don't want the ads pay the $10 for the subscription.