Monday brought home to me the downside of the Web Comic World. The upside is the connection with the readers - there’s no delay between the release of a new part of the comic and reader feedback. In some cases that can be words of appreciation from readers who are liking what we’re doing... sometimes it’s pointing out something we’ve missed and requires some quick typing to explain.
However, the downside that hit us this week was a complete lack of interwebs. For what felt like several days, the Luci Phurr’s Imps site was completely down. Now while it was only a couple of hours that we disappeared from view, that’s a big deal. For any of you guys out there that thought we’d gone for good, rest assured we’re still around and are already taking measures to make sure we have more control over that.
One of the unforeseen benefits of the downtime was that readers clearly went looking for us and found the Facebook page we have got more visits and a few more registered fans; and the Formspring page I set up to answer reader questions also had some activity.
So it seems that what for us on the creative side of the comic strip is so much fun, that reader interaction, wasn’t diminished by the main site going down, and we could still keep in touch. In the end, a week that started with me cursing the interwebs ended with me thinking it’s not such a bad thing, ‘cos as one way to connect might fall, a couple more are usually around to work through.
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