So the other day, a friend of mine is introducing me to a friend of his and he said, "M does *blah-blah-blah* and *blah-blah-blah* and he does online comic strips." This sounded really weird to me because I've never thought of myself as an online cartoonist.

For the first part, I don't draw the things. It's like giving captions to clip art and I just can't take myself seriously.

Secondly, it's a site where everyone is doing the same thing I'm doing, so it's not really like I'm doing something really amazing.

Lastly, I don't get paid to do it.

But then I thought about it a little more and said "Why not? Why not call myself a cartoonist?"

So I'd like to know your opinion. Do you consider yourself an online cartoonist/comic creator? Does it really even matter what we call ourselves? Is this something serious that we are all doing or is this just some kind of weird hobby?

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Peeing sitting down is the gift you give yourself.

Hmm. No, I guess I don't consider myself a cartoonist. I really can't draw very well at all. I am a writer by trade, though, and that's what I'm doing here. I doubt that I'd ever get a career writing comics, or for Mad Magazine, so I guess this thing we do is more of a hobby than a jobby.

I'd call us StripCreators. We create comic strips. We're more writers than anything else, because it takes more talent to completely create the visuals than it does to simply arrange a bunch of pre-created ones.

Allen Henderson, boinky33, and a few others I would say are online cartoonists. If I wasn't so fucking lazy I would be one, too.

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The giant three-phallused phallus of Uzbekistan will one day squirt the cosmic jizz of revenge all over Canada.

I think of myself as more of an On-Line Content Integrator. At least, that's what I'm putting down on my resume'.

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I was gonna send a robot back in time, but I got high.

Most strips on here are literally better than the vast majority of newspaper comics. Except maybe Luann.

What about the ingenuis Family Circus? And don't even get me started on how utterly brilliant and socially conscious, Garfield has become lately! *sigh*

Only strips I read nowadays are Boondocks, Doonesbury, Get Fuzzy and Monty... and even they aren't nearly as good as they used to be.

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Destroying my reputation one post at a time.

*gargle* I hate that strip SO much.

[quote]I think of myself as more of an On-Line Content Integrator. At least, that's what I'm putting down on my resume'.
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That's brilliant. I'll use that next time I apply for a filing clerk job.

Cats with Hands. Somebody actually gets paid to draw Cats with Hands. They probably even make a living at it. I figure I should get a few bucks an hour just for breathing.

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I was gonna send a robot back in time, but I got high.

I've been drawing cartoons my whole life, so I would call myself an amateur cartoonist.

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Legend, oh legend, the third wheel legend...always in the way.

I call myself a contributor to a humor site.

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ken.kaufman@gmail.com

Do you have a site for your cartoons?

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Get Your War On

[quote]I call myself a contributor to a humor site.
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Well put, my only difference is..

I call myself a BAD contributer to a GOOD humor site.

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