Ellis’s Engine seizes up
Quoting directly from Warren’s Bad Signal blast: "THE ENGINE will close a little before midnight UK time on August 31 2007. The first year was about getting creators together and facilitating conversations that didn’t have anywhere else to go. The second year was about just providing people with an interesting place to talk. Two years is enough. Time to move on. So you’ve got three weeks to mine out the place for the data you need, exchange contact details and all that."
"I’ve informed Andrew, the host, of my intent — it’s up to him whether or not the Engine remains as a static archive, though I’ve told him it’s not necessary. The search function has always been a bit weird, so I’ll be opening a thread for you to help each other find what you need. http://engine.ning.com will remain open — in fact, I’ll add a forum function to it for those of you who want to stay together and stay talking."
Great, now we need to build a new online community for comics creators, fans, and the like…
Hmmm.
The International Cartoonist Conspiracy provides a message board for professional and amateur cartoonists… it may provide a good place for some of you looking for a new place to shoot the poop once the Engine is gone. You can check it out here:http://www.cartoonistconspiracy.com/boardSteven StwalleyWebmaster, The International Cartoonist Conspiracy
Where's the ComicMix message board?
Um… you're soaking in it? It's in beta testing? You only met one person on the road to St. Ives?
I mean in the sense that Warren does it, and not just in response to write ups.
Great question. Having come from a blogging background and seeing blogs as forums where the blog post kicks off discussions, we're halfway there. At some point we just might open it up to let anyone kick off a discussion thread, but for now ComicMix is a group blog and not a full-blown message board.
I'm sure you guy would be great at it.