Comic Of The Day
Thursday, August 31st, 2006 at 10:41 amI’m actually starting to feel guilty for not keeping the blog more up-to-date, but with the blog move and filing the posts plus work is currently kicking my derriere, I’ve had very little time to actually write. So I thought I would introduce you to a piece that is hidden on the website that not many may have read.
Every day (Internet connection willing) I send out a comic strip to my friends and those signed up on the list so they can have a little something in their inbox when they wake up or get to work. Surprisingly, many people actually appreciate a quck smile before they start their day, so I’ve kept it up for, geez, I think 5 or 6 years. At one point a couple of years ago, I had a friend ask me what the hell it was all about, so I wrote a very corporate-sounding introduction for the comic service, which I thought ended up being pretty funny.
Here it is in its full glory without having to find the link in the signup window to actually read it. Click on the link to the left labeled “Comic Of The Day” to see the page; otherwise enjoy this propaganda.
The Comic Of The Day Story Do you like such daily comic strips as FoxTrot, Rhymes With Orange and Calvin & Hobbes? Then the people at TheWebPen.net have a deal for you. Every day hundreds of our employees go through a large list of comic strips — including some web comics you may not have heard of — and test them for content, laughability and an overall sense of just feelin’ good. Then once a day, they are sent to your email inbox (excluding our personal holidays).
You see, we here at TheWebPen.net take our comics seriously. Sounds funny, huh? Well, it’s not. We take each and every comic and put it through a rigorous double test. We read it when it is first printed and, if it makes us laugh, we store it in our holding folder until it is time for that comic to be released. Upon its release date, we read it again and, if it makes us laugh a second time, we lovingly wrap it within an email and it is sent to you to be enjoyed over and over again. (Pending legal action, we are no longer allowed to discuss what happens to comics that don’t make us laugh a second time)
These comics of the day include a full-color (well, most of the time) Sunday strip. You will never have to get up late on Sunday morning for that embarrassing excursion into the front yard wearing nothing but your bathrobe and a ‘head pressed up against the headboard’ hairdo to get the paper again. Besides, that Sunday paper is just too darn heavy anyway.
And that’s not all! With your comic of the day, you’ll read dedications to persons that you don’t even know. And maybe one day (if you’re lucky) you’ll get a comic dedicated to you! Also included in the email are updates for the boss’s pet project, Monkey’s Uncle Comedy Improv AND what song he is listening to when he makes the final decision and hits the send button, so you, YOU, can have a giggle, chortle, guffaw or just a smile.
How can you NOT be interested now? Why not just sign up for the Comic Of The Day list? It’s so easy. Just enter your email and hit subscribe. It will give you the sense of satisfaction that the WB Network envies and the Rolling Stones lament.
TheWebPen.net and the Comic Of The Day. Proudly making laugh lines on everyone’s face for over 5 years! Offer not valid to cranks. Some settling may occur.
Listening to: Damaged By Love - Tom Petty
August 31st, 2006 at 12:20 pm
Ya know, I somehow got bumped off of the Comic of the Day list. I miss it terribly. Did I do something to anger the Comedy gods?
Oh crap, I just inadvertantly referred to you as a god. Like you need the confidence boost. :)
If I’m still in your good graces, you should put me back on. I like laughing.
August 31st, 2006 at 12:23 pm
I read Calvin & Hobbes every day thru u-comix :-)
August 31st, 2006 at 1:05 pm
Linz: I don’t know about putting you back on. You’ve never told me you were moving to Wyoming for a certain someone special who happens to have written the short story to recent surprise Blockbuster gay film to be a personal slave. Hmmph.
Kath: That’s exactly where I get the Calvin’s for the site. I’m subscribed to all of the major distributors. That’s right. I pay to read comics. :)
August 31st, 2006 at 4:15 pm
I get mine for free!!
August 31st, 2006 at 4:30 pm
Yes, but the thing is that some of them only allow you to save or see current comics through a subscription, which is only about $10 a year, which is a small price to pay for the entertainment of my friends. :-P
August 31st, 2006 at 4:51 pm
I love comics. More the Calvin and Hobbes, Peanuts kind of stuff than Superman, Batman et al (though I do have and enjoy the Sandman series). I’m gonna sign up…
In ANOTHER bizarre act of synchronicity, I already have lined up two cartoons for my blog to post tomorrow. They’ll go live while I’m still asleep at 6am UK Time. I found them on a brilliant cartoon blog, the address to which is under my ‘media’ links. It welcomes syndication because it gives you the code to slap into WP to present them in your own space! x
August 31st, 2006 at 4:52 pm
And you seem to be having the same cache issues as I had with the ol’ gravatars… Mine ain’t showing… x
August 31st, 2006 at 4:53 pm
Cow and Boy… That’s like the reincarnation of Calvin and Hobbes? x
August 31st, 2006 at 4:53 pm
Oh yeah, the comic of the day has been a bright spot of my day many times over the last 5 years! Keep it up!
August 31st, 2006 at 6:11 pm
I love Fox Trot!!
August 31st, 2006 at 10:54 pm
I like to think that every Penny Arcade or PvP comic is secretly dedicated to me. There I go again making myself feel more important than I really am. HUZZAH
August 31st, 2006 at 11:10 pm
Andy: I’ll be looking for those comics and, yeah, Cow And Boy is very similiar to Calvin, which is why I probably like it so.
Hayes: Ah, thanks. And I’ll keep dedicating cat comics to you.
HDW: So do I! I have most of the collections.
Dan: Well, you are one of the people that I know will get them. :)
September 3rd, 2006 at 7:10 pm
Well, you know *I* can’t survive without the comic of the day… how many times do I complain when I don’t get them?
Seriously, you have no idea how many times you’ve made me laugh, or just to feel special to be a part of the select few who receive them… And now that I’m spending more and more time in the middle of nowhere, sometimes it’s my only link to civilization. Sort of.
Thanks… from the bottom of my heart….
The curmudgeonly hermit
September 8th, 2006 at 10:27 am
Ahhh… you’re welcome!