Thomas Deeny, the artist behind Planet Earth (and other tourist traps) wrote in to thank us for the traffic surge to his 9/11 strip.
While looking over my site’s stats, I noticed a rather large spike from your blog page. It’s really hard to say something meaningless as “thanks for the link” when one considers why the link was there to begin with. In fact, I even feel like a knob for even sending this, but thanks.
I found it interesting that, out of all the webcomics out there, you listed my strip. I’ve had Planet Earth (and other tourist traps) running for just over a year now and it’s a bit strange thinking that someone I don’t even know is not only reading my work, but mentioning it in a list of syndicated and well-known online-only comics. A short list, even. As an aspiring cartoonist, this makes me feel good about my work. But I feel like such a shmuck. “My comic about the death of thousands of people and emotional turmoil that still eats away at people even a year later was mentioned on a website and I got lots of hits! Whee!”
So I’ll just say thanks for mentioning Planet Earth (and other tourist traps). A better link to that strip may be here. That page has all the navigation for the rest of the site. (Now I feel even worse. “Thanks for linking to my site. Now go fix your link.” I am such an ass.)
Thomas, we get the Whee! feeling every time someone links to us. I think link sluttage is a natural condition of the Internet. In any case, thanking us for traffic is like complimenting a sloth on his turn of speed. Well, perhaps a hyperactive sloth. I’ll take some credit, but most of it should go to our close, personal friend, Glenn.
Aside: for a glimpse of the relative position of the blogosphere in the Internet, here’s a look at Instapundit’s visitor stats versus those of the fairly well-known webcomic PVP. Now if you’ll excuse, I need to go suck up to Scott Kurtz.
You can read Planet Earth (and other tourist traps) from the beginning here.
Aside: Free No-Prize to the first person who identifies the obscure Silflay Hraka in-joke in the post above.
