The Fancy Bastard Forum

If 30 Rock has taught us anything, it is that there are always untapped markets.

So true.

Blind Ferret isnt a webcomic. Its a company that sells advertising across dozens of webcomics and other sites. They have around 16 employees. They also do merchandising for LICD and LFG as well as other internet entities and webcomics. The connection you might be confusing is that the company is partly owned by Ryan from LICD and LFG. Its a legit business operation with a strong connection to webcomics but a marketer is something they would actually need and make use of.

Blind Ferret is a weird example of a webcomics business because, to my knowledge, only BF and Penny Arcade are fully realized companies with many employees, ad sales teams, marketing people, merch people, HR people, CEO's, CFO's etc.

.....ok. I just listened to Podcast 22 (I'm slowly making my way through them), and, like every topic I've talked about round on the forums, a 20 minute discussion about the topic developed 30 minutes further into the podcast than where I was when I wrote the comment. Which is nice, but makes me feel kinda naive. Which is fine too, and now I have a very basic understanding of webcomics, which I'm sure will come in handy someday.

Blind Ferret was responsible for the god-awful Ctrl-Alt-Del video series. The only way that stuff became tolerable was when some guy uploaded them all with the ability to add your own annotations to them. It's part MST3K, part 4chan nonsense.

Speaking of 4chan, it become amusing how media groups seem to deem it an organisation. Especially in Australia.