The Daily Cartoonist turns four today
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The Daily Cartoonist turns four years old today. Don’t know about you all, but it feels like a long time ago. I appreciate all of you who have been long time regulars and those who are relatively new. When I first launched the blog, I didn’t promote it. I was hoping to build a backlog of stories before people came buy – that and I didn’t have much of a game plan beyond a personal desire to see what was happening in the industry. Within the first couple of months I saw a small trickle of visitors, but had no idea who they were or how they found me. By January of 2006 I started to see a spike in traffic. Then Dave Astor started to link to me and that was like the Father of Syndicating Reporting giving me a nod. I’ll always be indebted to his work at Editor and Publisher and his support of The Daily Cartoonist.
So here we are the cusp of year four. I don’t have any major changes planned, other than some maintenance work that keeps getting put off. I plan on returning a feature I started called The Cartoonist’s Cartoonists – better described as a tribute feature. I plan on doing more interviews as well with news-makers. Look for these in the coming weeks.
Traditionally I post some of the more interesting stats from the previous year. Here’s how we did in year three.
Posts and comments:
- Total number of stories posted: 811
- Total number of comments posted: 8861
- Total number of Contributors: 17
Top 10 stories by page views:
- AAEC Convention Plans Shaping Up
- Gary Brookins Laid off from Times Dispatch
- Sean Delonas Catches Flack For Duplicating Self
- Opus Ends In A Story Book
- Rob Harrell to Work on Adam@home
- Keith Knight On Improving NCS, Cagle Responds
- Universal Launches Talent Search With Amazon
- Amazon Posts Quarterfinalists In Comic Strip Superstar Contest
- Ted Rall Laid Off From United Media
- Cathy Featured On 30 Rock
Top stories based on comments generated:
- Universal launches talent search with Amazon – 225 comments
- Open thread: Who’s going to this year’s Reubens? – 190 comments
- Keith Knight on improving NCS; Cagle responds – 186 comments
- AAEC convention plans shaping up – 182 comments
- Gary Brookins laid off from Times-Dispatch – 139 comments
- Delonas cartoon proves racially questionable – 128 comments
- Creators fights tax status in Los Angeles, again – 104 comments
- Rob Harrell to work on Adam@Home – 98 comments
Top 10 commentors last year
- Wiley Miller (509)
- Mike Peterson (206)
- Garey Mckee (175)
- Ted Rall (162)
- Mike Lester (156)
- Stacy Curtis (155)
- Rich Diesslin (153)
- Henry Clausner (133)
- Mark Tatulli (118)
- Rick Stromoski (114)
Thank you all again. It’s a great gig to have. I wish you all success in whatever projects you’re working on.
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