{"id":122,"date":"2008-04-04T22:34:39","date_gmt":"2008-04-05T02:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/2008\/04\/04\/note-to-stick-figure-comics-give-it-up-already\/"},"modified":"2008-04-04T22:34:39","modified_gmt":"2008-04-05T02:34:39","slug":"note-to-stick-figure-comics-give-it-up-already","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/note-to-stick-figure-comics-give-it-up-already\/","title":{"rendered":"Note to Stick Figure Comics &#8211; Give it Up, Already"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently added StumbleUpon to my browser.\u00c2\u00a0 You tell it what kinds of things you&#8217;re interested in, and when you&#8217;re bored you click the icon on your taskbar and it brings to to a semi-random site that they think will interest you.\u00c2\u00a0 You can then rate it thumbs up or thumbs down with a mouse click, and comment on it if you&#8217;re so inclined.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s OK, but not great.\u00c2\u00a0 They repeat too many sites, including ones I&#8217;ve thumbed down.\u00c2\u00a0 But they also hit some great sites from time to time, ones I probably wouldn&#8217;t have found on my own.<\/p>\n<p>One thing it&#8217;s taught me, though, is just how many horribly bad comics are on the tubes.\u00c2\u00a0 Stupid, poorly drawn, just plain <em>bad <\/em>comics.\u00c2\u00a0 And the worst of all are the stick figure comics.\u00c2\u00a0 There are hundreds of them.<\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t have to be Da Vinci to draw a comic.\u00c2\u00a0 No one is expecting brilliant artwork.\u00c2\u00a0 But if the best you can do is stick figures: <strong><em>don&#8217;t bother!<\/em><\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0 Stick figure comics are stupid and ridiculous.\u00c2\u00a0 If you&#8217;re stupid and ridiculous you might want to avoid advertising that to the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently added StumbleUpon to my browser.\u00c2\u00a0 You tell it what kinds of things you&#8217;re interested in, and when you&#8217;re bored you click the icon on your taskbar and it brings to to a semi-random site that they think will interest you.\u00c2\u00a0 You can then rate it thumbs up or thumbs down with a mouse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}