04.01.2010 - Terrence Marks:

Happy April Fools Day, everyone!

Now, it's not that we've been doing this since before April Fools Day was cool, but I organized the first webcomics swap back in 1999. I was a sophomore in college. I didn't, technically, have a webcomic when I started organizing it - Unlike Minerva's launch date got moved up a couple weeks so that I'd have a webcomic in time for the event.
What I did have was a clever plan: do something that syndicated cartoonists had done a few years before, except it's on the Internet and I'm in charge.
Like I said, I was a sophomore.

I got a bunch of cartoonists together - it's not everyone who was anyone back in webcomics in 1999, but it's awfully close - and got them to do this. It was the first time more than three online cartoonists did anything together, as far as I know.

Naturally, I hosted it on my school account and made absolutely no plans for the page to go away when, for example, I graduated. Then my hard drive crashed. I don't have a copy of the page. Archive.org's wayback machine just has a page with a bunch of broken images.

Like I said, I was a sophomore.

I'm sorry the site was lost. I was very impressed by the amount of work that the other cartoonists put into it. I felt like...like Kermit.

No, seriously.

You know how in The Muppet Movie, he says it'd be neat if he went to Hollywood, and if everyone else wanted to come along and share the same dream, they could help each other do it? Like that. Except with a lot less wrangling, more talented participants, and nobody trying to steal my legs. Seriously, if you were part of that in any way, thank you.

I'll probably rebuild the site eventually, but that's another story for another day. For today, we've got special comics, and I ask you readers: are the characters more anthropomorphic or less anthropomorphic like this? Discuss your answer with each other and get back to me.