The fast track to webcomics on TV
Posted January 24th, 2006 by Howard TaylerSee, THIS is why I hang out with the Blank Label Comics crew. They’ve got the inside track on EVERYTHING.
Sure, Keenspot announced a television deal for one of their properties back in September, but there’s no actual Keenspot Comic on TV yet. That’s the SLOW track. Fast track? Have a beautiful actress haul your comic onto the set, and BAM! Your strip is on TV.
Alyson Hannigan, that red-headed goddess familiar to geek-boys everywhere, took her copy of Pure Ducky Goodness right onto the set with her in Monday Night’s episode of How I Met Your Mother. And that’s a wrap, folks — Blank Label Comics is the first collective to get a webcomic on TV.
(Okay, so this is a little like claiming to be the first person on Mars by swabbing Opportunity’s wheels with a drop of your blood, but hey… those were YOUR bodily fluids on those wheels, not your competitors’, so PHBBBTBTB!)
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January 24th, 2006 at 8:24 pm
Still, it’s a BLC book, and either the prop people are fans, had a copy lying around, or Ms. Hannigan herself is a fan. Grats. :D
January 24th, 2006 at 8:49 pm
My understanding is that Alyson Hannigan has her own copy of the book, which she purchased at the launch party in Los Angeles.
January 24th, 2006 at 9:20 pm
Not bad. So, how much money did you guys get out of this deal?
January 24th, 2006 at 9:50 pm
*Monty Burns finger-waving* Exxxxxxxxxcelllent… And I wouldn’t say the gain is in monetary terms so much as exposure - for those who know BLC, it’s a hoot to see a BLC book on screen. For those who don’t, and who obsess over every little thing Ms. Hannigan does, then they’ll find out about Blank Label Comics and hopefully get hooked.
January 24th, 2006 at 9:51 pm
Does Sheldon really count as a webcomic anymore? Isn’t it nationally syndicated, like in newspapers and all, by United Media? It’s one of exactly two such successes of which I’ve heard (the other being Dog Eat Doug) so I guess it’s a triumph for webcomics in some respects, but …
I always have to nit-pick. :)
January 25th, 2006 at 4:19 am
Exactly how one of my supposed ancestors on my Irish side supposedly won the right to be king - some sort of boat race, the first to touch land wins; this guy sees he’s not going to make it, cuts off his hand, and throws it onto shore, thus “touching” land first and voila! instant royalty. Or something like that. So, there’s precedent…
January 25th, 2006 at 8:31 am
I’m sure you know that NASA is more obsessed with cleanliness than a maid with obsessive-compulsive disease. Someones blood would never make it to Mars on one of the tires.
Nice metaphor, analogy, whatever.
January 25th, 2006 at 11:09 am
Hey- you know- The Kingdom of the West, (WWW.SCA.ORG) has laid claim to Mars by virtue of a sticker inside Opportunity- So the idea has merit, and precedent!
January 25th, 2006 at 11:16 am
Thank you, Ladyfox.
(Now I must wage ware with The Kingdom of the West to reclaim Mars… either that, or I just need to go there and homestead the darn planet for me and my legions of minions)
January 25th, 2006 at 11:25 am
Still it is freakin cool….Do you know if dave has had a chace to talk to the crew?…and how often do you BLC guys talk any way?
January 25th, 2006 at 12:54 pm
Howard, please save me a site along the lower slope of the west side of Olympus Mons. It’s beautiful this time of year.
January 25th, 2006 at 1:31 pm
The BLC is in constant communication, via an extensive (and costly!) system of “dark fiber,” complete with VOIP, real-time Video, and several other components, all woven into a 5th-generation ICE (Integrated Collaboration Environment).
January 26th, 2006 at 2:27 am
Okay, is this another case of “anything I do not know about doesn’t count” or is “TV” limited to major American channels?
‘Cuz I’m fairly sure I’ve seen it reported that a Finnish TV documentary about comics also had some coverage of webcomics back in 2004 or 2003. I’ll be back if I can confirm any details.
January 26th, 2006 at 3:19 pm
Isn’t VOIP the sound associated with sudden leaser based demise?
http://www.machall.com/index.php?strip_id=193
January 26th, 2006 at 3:22 pm
Sidenote: for those not in the know, leasers are a more advanced form of laser, consisting of an electromagnetic sheath wound around the central core of the beam, thus ensuring less dispersal over range. “Leaser” was chosen over “eLaser” because of all the damn jokes about that blasted Schwartzenegger Eraser movie.
We have no knowledge of typos. Nope, nope, nope.
January 29th, 2006 at 1:43 am
Although Sheldon is currently published by BLC (and syndicated by United Media as someone else mentioned above), I should probably point out that Sheldon started out (or at least first got exposure) on Keenspot. So Keenspot still wins. Sort of.