Huh... My Paranoia is Fed...

[redneckgaijin]

The past few posts I've made, I've had responses from people who not only aren't on my Friend or Friend-of lists, but aren't on much of any mutual friends lists. The -last- post I made drew responses from Scott Kurtz (PvP) and Aaron Williams (Nodwick, among other things)- people I really never expected to even notice my existence, much less take an active role in discussion. Now, since the last post was about Kurtz, I can see his finding it via a self-Google... but Williams?

I'm beginning to wonder two things.

(1) Is this LJ getting reposted somewhere, on some REALLY popular website, that I don't know about? (If it is, most of the time it's boring hell out of a lot of people...)

(2) Just how many lurkers are out there reading but not friending, anyhow?

(And, of course, (2) begs (2a,) why?!?)

Comments

[bar1scorpio.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Will Eisner, creator of the Spirit. A comic artists' artist. One of the greats. I've seen some of his originals at various gallery showings at EMU. And the award does have some credibility to it, given that they don't just hand them out to whatever Marvel/DC clone is making 'waves' at the moment.

[redneckgaijin.livejournal.com]

And not just a great comic artist- Eisner was an early advocate for artists' rights in an industry where the publisher owned all.

Will Eisner was the anti-Michael Eisner, in my opinion.

That said, it's a shame we won't see the gag comic.

[limeykat.livejournal.com]

It was probably going to be a one panel thing that would ask why someone would be proud to have an award named after THAT GUY after quoting a good part of the deeduhdee strip. As you see that wouldn't quiiiiiiiiiiiite work as well as I'd have wanted it to.