Frankly, I'm just happy people can read my posts for change without throwing comments around about am I a five-year-old kid or some form of mental handicap, although I'll admit they don't use words as polite as mental handicap, they all use the word which I'll not get into because I know a few group members like myself happen to have a rather nasty reaction to this particular word.
The other point I was trying to make is it's unfortunate that a few members of the peanut gallery are generally what screws things up for everybody.
And on another side note, my reading isn't that great but it's not as bad as it was. Part of why I got into anthropomorphic comics. I was around 11 or 12 years old and found out about a series called cutty bunny by an artist/writer named John quagmire. I remember when I met him. Most people online thought he was dead lol.
I've over the years collected up most of his stuff, although I still haven't found the 1980s fan club T-shirt and there's a few books I may not have were not really sure. Due to even John himself couldn't come up with a list of comics. He did because he when I met him couldn't remember anymore having problems with memory.
Another comic. I got into at that age was Omaha the cat dancer. I know most people will say why do these two particular, books have do with anything? Between the age of 11 and 12, I lost a significant chunk of long-term memory. It is a reoccurring issue which gets progressively worse as I get older. In this particular case I ended up passing to learn to read/write/tie my shoes, and a bunch of other things all over again. It was around this time that the school system for the most part gives up on people like me and you get labeled and shoved aside. Ended up learning to read, at least to the extent I can read nowadays. From reading, books, including the two I mentioned as well as a few issues of American flag, critters, shoot, leather and lace, Sapphire,. For those who don't know there is a PG version and a adult version of leather and lace and Sapphire .bolth Are done in a similar art style to the elf Qwest comics. I used to use at that time the old Apple II E and Apple Macintosh computers. It was around 2004 or 2005 that I get into using Windows 3.1. I more or less self-taught when it comes to computers. I'm 34 years old and yes, I was underage when it came to reading those books but frankly, I don't think it matters nowadays LOL. Part of the point I'm trying to make is when it comes to the furry fandom online. I wasn't on the ground floor. I was somewheres in the bomb shelter under the basement! I sometimes wonder if there's very many people here who remember what art content was like online back in 1995 when it comes to the furry fandom? How many of you remember the Disney and Warner Bros. copyright artwork adult cartoon scandals of the 90s, in which the large studios such as Disney and Warner Bros. tried to prevent anyone from having adult cartoon artwork online! Most of the people I need in the fandom today are almost young enough to be my kids. LOL. And none of them have any idea what it was to get access to this artwork online. Back in the 90s! This is another reason why it annoys me when a few rather irritating individuals cause somebody to decide to stop doing something a lot of people enjoy that they do. Over the years I've seen a lot of artists pass away or in other unfortunate cases merely stop posting their work online. Due to a number of circumstances, which includes cases like this one where they were put off of the subject matter by people bothering them.
I'm not trying to brag or anything like that! I just wish that more of the younger generation of people knew more of just how things could be today if it wasn't for people back in the 90s who push the fandom to where it's at today online. This is bolth , in part due to the work of artists and fans who helped these artists.
I'm willing to bet almost none of you on this group have ever even heard of newsgroups for sharing artwork! There were almost no websites like we have now. Back then, most of the stuff was passed around privately through newsgroups and similar media. I can remember when Yahoo used to hunt down and deactivate websites, which were reported to have adult cartoon artwork on them! I can also remember the days that Warner Bros. and Disney used to hand out cease and desist letters to people who had sites online and not all these individuals even had artwork that was copyright one of the studios, but the studios felt that there shouldn't be any adult cartoon artwork online, Not just playing playground bully about their own work.
before people start throwing negative attitudes around about somebody else's work, they should. If you ask me take into consideration that there spoiling things for everybody else. I speak from opposition of somebody who can't even draw a straight line with a ruler and pencil! And for maybe the small number of people who remember I used to do work in the online art community from the 90s up until a few years ago. Still can't draw. LOL. But there was a point in time I was able to lend a hand when it came to doing touch up work with computer mouse and programs like Windows paint brush and work that was drawn in lead pencil on white paper. Yes, boys and girls. There was a time. This stuff was done on this thing called paper which, believe it or not, is made from trees! Then these pieces of white paper, which were drawn on by hand using something called a lead pencil were scanned into the computer using this thing called a print scanner. We didn't have digital cameras and a lot of other things that most people have today. We didn't even have USB back then. LOL. Sometimes I'm beginning to feel like somebody who is talking about final records to somebody who doesn't remember what came before the iPod! I'm probably one of few group members who knows what a floppy disk is, a laser disk, a eight track, a cassette tape, a LP, a a.m. radio, a cassette player, and a CD player and yes I'm beginning to think people today don't remember CDs. LOL.
I can still remember having a conversation with somebody playing a Pantano Game Boy and trying to explain to this person who was one of the genius level kids that why don't they simply make cartridges for the Game Boy, which have music on them and was told why would anybody do that when they have CDs.
All yeah I forgot to mention I also Betamax and VHS;). We didn't have TiVo back in our day and we still had twist dials on our televisions , which sometimes was a 12 channels . Set and that was if you had cable.
sometimes I think the people who go to all the trouble to complain and blogger somebody about their artwork simply have no idea the way things used to be compared to how they are now. I'm reminded of the age old saying if you don't like what's on change the channel. Why go to the trouble to complain about somebody's work when you can merely spend that energy to turn your attention to something by somebody else, which doesn't give you the need to instead spend time complaining about what you don't like. And I can also by the way remember when TDs didn't come any bigger than 26 inches!!!!!, and a portable 6 to 8 inch television screen was generally attached to something you most likely would've needed assistance to carry and that was considered a battery-operated portable television;).
Furthermore, I can remember when we still had to use these things called payphones because if you didn't have a cell phone. It was something like two or three dollars a minute. And back then all you could do was make a phone call with your cell phone. One last thing, I think I'll mention how many people here know what a video arcade is? I sometimes wonder, am I the only person who misses, video arcades!
> TL;DR - We all make mistakes. Des and JMH are inspirational we should be grateful to them.
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> The Speech To Text may make mistakes, but I certainly find it easier to read. We all make typos and sometimes rush an email that we should stop and re-read before hitting send (Scrapper!), so we can't claim perfection.
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> With drawing comics, people's interests change. I used to be very enthused to do fan art for a while - it is because of JMH that I started drawing the in first place; wanting to do fanart for Jim. For this inspiration I offer thanks, for without that interest, I would not have taken up air brushing (which I haven't done for a while, but still love) nor taken drawing classes and met some good friends (who I still see). My interests have been attracted elsewhere in recent years, so haven't really picked up a pencil. I'll probably go back to airbrushing, but at the moment my priorities and values are elsewhere.
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> It is a bit like the scenario of "when I was a kid I used to play..." you may not hate doing that activity, but you are no longer interested in it. I suspect this is the same for Des to some degree - she's not interested the anthro subject matter any more; she had bad experiences, negative associations and "grew out of it". I have Des to thank for her web site that led me to Skunkworks and JMH; without which the above things wouldn't have occurred.
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> People come into your life for a reason or a season. When that changes, the relationship may fade. The reasons have changed and Des has moved on, but I am still very grateful for what she has done. Look at what she did do with By The Tail - we got a lot more than if it had stayed as an idea in JMH's bottom drawer! So for this we should be grateful too. It seems nearly every great free comic strip seems to lose impetus and fade out. It is often a pity people don't "get to an end" and finish the story; some just randomly stop, others became patchy and then just cease, some should stop and the quality fails. Artists' interests go elsewhere and the comic stops; Two others that spring to mind are Nick Hardin's Jewel Vixens and Longtail's Apollo 9; both suffered "lack of interest" from the artists and just stopped.
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> Scrapper, Black Dragon, be grateful so the good things come.
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> > From: "peter10_at_ns.sympatico.ca" <peter10_at_ns.sympatico.ca>
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> >I know exactly what you're talking about when you say fingers.
> >There's been more than a few group members who have made negative comments about some of my spelling and grammar!
> >I've been trying to use a voice to text program to remedy this problem. Although the software makes just as bad mistakes as my hands.
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