Would folks be interested in participating in webcomic reading club(s)? Something like a book club if you've heard of those. A place online where people would read a selected webcomic for the month and than meet at the end of the month to discuss. The meeting could be in a chat or a forum - Comixpedia would essentially be providing a meeting place (and I can help set up a group or groups of people) but the idea here would really be for these groups to run themselves.
A basic outline of a club though could be something like - 12 to 24 people. Each member picks a comic (or a chunk of an serialized comic - something reasonable to read in a 2-3 week period) for a month for everyone to read and in the last week of the month establish a regular date for a chat or a time period to post and discuss on a forum (which I can set up here for each club) or both. This isn't intended to be a reviews club for other readers or even a creators - let's review each other kind of thing. This would be for readers to talk about webcomics (Creators can be readers too of course!). We could leave the scope of the club(s) wide open or people could express interest in having one with a specific focus.
The whole point is just to share experiences and talk about webcomics. I just read Farley's Spiders again. It's be cool if others had just done the same and we could just talk about it - It'd be more fun if everyone just flew over to my neighborhood and we could go hang out and talk about it but this Internet thing will have to do :)
Feedback?
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Webcomic Reading Club(s)?
Would folks be interested in participating in webcomic reading club(s)? Something like a book club if you've heard of those. A place online where people would read a selected webcomic for the month and than meet at the end of the month to discuss. The meeting could be in a chat or a forum - Comixpedia would essentially be providing a meeting place (and I can help set up a group or groups of people) but the idea here would really be for these groups to run themselves.
A basic outline of a club though could be something like - 12 to 24 people. Each member picks a comic (or a chunk of an serialized comic - something reasonable to read in a 2-3 week period) for a month for everyone to read and in the last week of the month establish a regular date for a chat or a time period to post and discuss on a forum (which I can set up here for each club) or both. This isn't intended to be a reviews club for other readers or even a creators - let's review each other kind of thing. This would be for readers to talk about webcomics (Creators can be readers too of course!). We could leave the scope of the club(s) wide open or people could express interest in having one with a specific focus.
The whole point is just to share experiences and talk about webcomics. I just read Farley's Spiders again. It's be cool if others had just done the same and we could just talk about it - It'd be more fun if everyone just flew over to my neighborhood and we could go hang out and talk about it but this Internet thing will have to do :)
Feedback?
They already have one of those over at the Comicon message board, under the webcomics forum. You should check it out.
Saga of the Ram
Not exactly the same thing as that's one huge group of folks who write reviews of webcomics in a coordinated fashion. Nor is this envisioned as exactly the same thing as the reviews group moderated by Al over at buzzcomics.
The idea here is to discuss webcomics with some like-minded webcomics fans. This isn't intended to generate a bunch of reviews of comics - this is for fans to have other fans to talk to about something recently read.