Hi everybody.
Remember that list of people I had a few posts back who had helped out with different character development/naming stuff? It’s on its way to doubling in just the first month of the “new” Fresh Fish.
I checked with everybody before actually putting any names out there on the Internet, and didn’t want to take the time to do that with this one (although I probably will later when it comes to an “About” page). But I left out a role several friends of mine have played that is incredibly important, and certainly never solicited (I’m not that pompous!).
I’ve often joked that I had an estimated readership of 12 the first time Fresh Fish ran. I’m pretty sure most of the readership were just my own close friends. I recall that throughout its run, but especially at the beginning, a particular friend of mine familiar with the characters would send me e-mail whenever he found a strip or story particularly interesting. I dubbed him Fresh Fish’s “first ‘biggest fan.’”
His contributions are by no means unique to him. I hope it doesn’t sound like a broken record (or desperate compliment-fishing) for me to say again how much I appreciate everybody reading the strip; especially when they get the chance to tell me what they think. I hope everybody reads it because they actually enjoy it, because you guys reading has some very practical upshots.
Wednesday, two separate people gave me great advice as soon as they saw the comic that really helped me out a lot. It wasn’t the first time either of them had helped me out, either. One corrected typo and a tip on better sharing practices later, I realized I benefitted from this stuff enough to write it up.
I’m still getting used to/deciding what to do with blog posts and site design, and I only really know one very good way to verify that any of it “works:” Feedback.
So seriously: thanks for reading. You help me out a lot just by showing up. Or as Mister Rogers would say, “Just by your being you.”