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Hey all! I’ve been tweaking my ad setup a bit and I wanted to draw your attention to a couple of ad slots that are available on the site. There’s a big 970 x 250 billboard that sits between the first two posts on the front page and above the title on an individual post page; and there’s a 300 x 600 skyscraper that sits in the left-hand nav bar. They’re both great formats for striking comics art, and both get you a text shout-out in the Comment of the Week metapost.

You might remember Brian Carroll’s Two Party Opera as one of our big advertisers from last year. After his run completed, he sent me this very nice note:

I just wanted to give you an update on the success of advertising Two Party Opera on your site. A couple months ago, I was approached by GoComics for digital syndication and the comic has been mirrored there for about a month now. The visibility and readership for the comic quintupled overnight and I suspect that none of that would have been possible without advertising on your site (as I’m sure GoComics keeps tabs on the comics you roast).

Anyway, while obviously past performance doesn’t guarantee future results, etc., it’s a sign of what can go right for you if you choose to showcase your comic on a site dedicated to comics. Or showcase anything else, if you want! I won’t turn down your money! To start the process, head over to my BuySellAds page.

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Spider-Man, 2/21/18

So J. Jonah Jameson showed up in this strip a couple days ago, and I assumed it was because he as a newspaperman was chasing the big story of Spider-Man fighting with a giant lizard on the roof of a hospital in broad daylight. But, no, I guess he’s at some unspecified “business conference” where some of his business buddies wanted to engage in some classic business conference R&R: taking a boat into a swamp! I’m heartened to see that even though JJJ is of course a loud-mouthed alpha male, he, like me, hates nature and wants to spend as little time in it as possible.

Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, 2/21/18

Also a couple days ago, Snuffy Smith found his father, who he … hadn’t seen in years and, one has to think, assumed was dead? Except he was just sleeping against a tree stump, Rip Van Winkle-style, and couldn’t be woken up. I know modern medicine hasn’t made a huge impression on Hootin’ Holler, but you’d think “don’t move the sick or injured, and definitely don’t drag them roughly across uneven ground for miles” would just be common sense.

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Mark Trail, 2/20/18

Oh, man, sorry I haven’t been keeping you up to date on Mark Trail, but the short version of the story is that, after showering his giraffe-seeing son and monkey-riding-ostrich-seeing father-in-law with amused contempt and probably not even hearing about the nice campers who got attacked by a rhino, Mark finally saw a tiger with his own eyes and now all of the sudden the situation is very serious indeed and he needs to take charge of it! Based on Mark’s grim facial expression and his determination to stockpile on ammo, look for the tone of the strip to rapidly shift from “zany farce with wacky circus animals” to “gritty Assault on Precinct 13-style seige drama, with wacky circus animals.”

Mary Worth, 2/20/18

This Mary Worth plot about Ted Miller, sex creep, is doing a good job of simulating having professional dealings with an actual sex creep, in the sense that you have to sit through a lot of boring professional talk on edge wondering when the next hug that lingers right up to the edge of plausible deniability is going to abruptly arrive. Until then, though, I guess we should go back to the extremely improbable story of Mary as a muffin maven, a story that starts with her selling a plate of five muffins at Aileen’s Grocery and ends with everyone involved a millionaire! This story obviously requires Ted to wedge himself onto the loveseat with Mary to tell it, so she can feel the power of his narrative.

Pluggers, 2/20/18

A PLUGGER ONLY HUGS SOMETHING

AFTER HE KILLS IT

AND CHOPS IT UP WITH AN AXE