/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

Any act of creating requires both time and solitude. Socialize when you have something to show.

I tried putting in forums on my website a year or so ago to generate traffic. I am a regular reader of the Order of the Stick, and I dream of having a following that would dissect every strip for debate of its significance to the overall canon in threads that run dozens of pages,and to earn a living from merchandising the IP. But it was not meant to be. The only traffic I recieved bypassed the front page entirely, ignoring the comic,and went to the forums,and the only posts by registered members were to advertise South American Viagra knockoffs and similar rubbish. Who would buy such stuff because they saw a post about it at a webcomic forum? The illogic of it was galling,and the reality of no one wanting to read what I do regularly, or at least wanting to talk about it,was depressing. So I ripped out the forums by the roots and although I average 1400 visitors per month,I cannot tell if they are humans nor even if they give a damn about what I do.
Most visits are direct inquiries, but no one bothers to put up a link back to my site to share. I may be alone in appreciating my own work. Sad.

From high school,when I was 15-16.
Drawn from a picture in a book catalogusing Marx. Brothers movies.