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jmanley

Date:

March 10th, 2009 12:20 PM

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Digger Is Now Free

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I'm as much of an indie print comics fan as I am a webcomics fan.

There are a lot of us who participate in both communities, but they are still two fairly distinct communities. A lot of my friends at the comic book store (I shop at Jim Hanley's Universe, by the Empire State Building, most of the time these days, but sometimes I go to Galaxy Comics in Bay Ridge) aren't into webcomics, and quite a few of my Facebook friends have probably never been to a comic book store.

The two worlds are slowly coming together, though.

In particular, I find that a lot of indie print comics fans have a lot of curiosity about webcomics, but just haven't found "the one" they like, yet. Because many of the most popular webcomics seem to be humorous punchline-oriented strips, some indie comics fans think that all webcomics are in that genre. A lot of indie comics fans aren't any more into punchline-oriented comics than the average non-comics-fan (which is to say, they like them fine when they happen to see them, if they're funny, but they don't like them quite enough to call themselves "fans").

There are many great webcomics that aren't punchline-driven, of course, but they're maybe a little harder to find.

Couple that with individual taste (the kind of narrative-driven webcomic a Love & Rockets fan would love, for example, is likely different from the perfect webcomic for a Fear Agent fan or a Walking Dead devotee), and it gets really, really hard to find the right comic to recommend, when they ask. And they do ask. A lot.

Now that Ursula Vernon's Digger is free, though, that job has become a lot easier. Digger used to be part of the formerly-subscription-based website Graphic Smash, which I used to own. Now it is free. And it is on its own site. And I honestly can't think of anybody who wouldn't love Digger.

Indie print comics fans? Meet Digger. And, um, everybody else, too. If you already like webcomics? You'll also love Digger. Or maybe I should say you'll, um, dig Digger.

So check it out.

How many more times can I fit the link in there? At least one more. Consider it the bloggy equivalent of grabbing you by the shoulder and insisting you head over, you know, this way.

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