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Ha, yes. Always comes up in my head too. But the best Electric Sheep comic was Delta Thrives. I look at it several times a year still. Gorgeous stuff. http:

Ha, yes. Always comes up in my head too. But the best Electric Sheep comic was Delta Thrives. I look at it several times a year still. Gorgeous stuff. http://e-sheep.sansara.net.ua/www.e-sheep.com/delta/heartofthesun/index.html http://e-sheep.sansara.net.ua/www.e-sheep.com/delta/heartoft...

api 11y ago
I remember Electric Sheep too... So much better than badly drawn sneering blobs and stick figures expressing smug superiority or banal cynicism. Man did Internet culture ever turn to trash after ~2001. 90s Internet culture: what you posted. Today's Internet culture: LOL I p00ped today! Because science! It's really just a mirror of the larger culture though. I watched some old Star Trek TNG a while back and was just amazed. You could never even write anything that optimistic today. History says these things are cyclic. Hope that's still true. Probably is. The 20s will probably be pretty awesome.
- egypturnash 11y ago
  There's still good stuff out there in corners of the internet. And there was a lot of garbage on the net back in the 90s, too. There's just so much more good stuff AND garbage on the net now. Because almost everyone is on it, no matter how rich or poor, no matter how much or little free time they have to craft art. For instance - since we are talking about one of the pioneers of webcomics - there s now a huge flourishing world of people doing comics on the web. One that's big enough and noticeable enough that people can find an audience to make a modest living self-publishing, with a pretty fuzzy border between it and the world of people who do work for "real" publishers. If anything it's getting easier and easier to make a living on this stuff with things like Patreon and Kickstarter. It's just that yeah, we also have stuff like XKCD or the Oatmeal or Zen Moments that is honed to a razor-sharp edge of "something cute you want to re-share".
  - api 11y ago
    I guess it's like music. There's engineered pop that's designed for catchiness but otherwise is pretty crummy, but if you dig you can find good stuff. I feel the two are to some extent mutually exclusive. Some of the parent cartoons are amazing but they're also weird. They're "heavy." I might not post those to my Facebook feed. My in-laws are on there.

api 11y ago

I remember Electric Sheep too... So much better than badly drawn sneering blobs and stick figures expressing smug superiority or banal cynicism. Man did Internet culture ever turn to trash after ~2001. 90s Internet culture: what you posted. Today's Internet culture: LOL I p00ped today! Because science! It's really just a mirror of the larger culture though. I watched some old Star Trek TNG a while back and was just amazed. You could never even write anything that optimistic today. History says these things are cyclic. Hope that's still true. Probably is. The 20s will probably be pretty awesome.

egypturnash 11y ago
There's still good stuff out there in corners of the internet. And there was a lot of garbage on the net back in the 90s, too. There's just so much more good stuff AND garbage on the net now. Because almost everyone is on it, no matter how rich or poor, no matter how much or little free time they have to craft art. For instance - since we are talking about one of the pioneers of webcomics - there s now a huge flourishing world of people doing comics on the web. One that's big enough and noticeable enough that people can find an audience to make a modest living self-publishing, with a pretty fuzzy border between it and the world of people who do work for "real" publishers. If anything it's getting easier and easier to make a living on this stuff with things like Patreon and Kickstarter. It's just that yeah, we also have stuff like XKCD or the Oatmeal or Zen Moments that is honed to a razor-sharp edge of "something cute you want to re-share".
- api 11y ago
  I guess it's like music. There's engineered pop that's designed for catchiness but otherwise is pretty crummy, but if you dig you can find good stuff. I feel the two are to some extent mutually exclusive. Some of the parent cartoons are amazing but they're also weird. They're "heavy." I might not post those to my Facebook feed. My in-laws are on there.