Thank you, and goodnight
November 21, 2003 10:44 PM   Subscribe

Leisuretown has disappeared. Except for the about, contact, navigation, and most important, the donation page, there are no Christmas suicide balloons or Winter solstice parties. I just found out via this Comics Journal thread and I wonder if there any other favorite web cartoons of mine that are about to bite the dust.
posted by jabo (11 comments total)
 
I found out about this a couple months ago when people started screaming in horror about it in Rand's weblog comments over at rands.jerkcity.com. People up on their Leisuretown/Jerkcity trivia will remember that Tristan plays the part of Spigot on Jerkcity. A pity, because his work on Leisuretown is about 20x funnier than his best on Jerkcity - in fact I can't recall a webpage in over a decade of websurfing that I've enjoyed as much as LT. Tristan's admission that he was soon to be reduced to waiterdom in a couple of interviews (pigdog's, for one) suggests a reason for Leisuretown going down, and I wish I'd known it was that urgent, if so - I would have donated something.
posted by Ryvar at 10:53 PM on November 21, 2003


Oh crap.

about

contact

navigation

and

donations.

The Comics Journal thread is here .

Sorry.
posted by jabo at 10:56 PM on November 21, 2003


Yeah, I was pretty bummed about this when I noticed its disappearance (six weeks ago.) If anybody has an underground archive floating around, let me know...
posted by Johnny Assay at 11:08 PM on November 21, 2003


Like I tried to badly say in the FPP, the donations page is still up.
posted by jabo at 11:53 PM on November 21, 2003


Leisuretown was great--maybe he sold it all to a publisher or something?
posted by amberglow at 7:51 AM on November 22, 2003


Most importantly, did someone stash a mirror of it that can be posthumously redistributed in violation of its creator's copyright?
posted by majick at 8:38 AM on November 22, 2003


Crap. I was in the process of recommending Leisuretown to a Jerkcity-loving friend the other day when I found this out myself.

I'd probably pay $5 for access to an archive of this stuff. And not even any of that less-good stuff he put up in recent years, just the original, fabulously long comics.
posted by rxrfrx at 8:53 AM on November 22, 2003


Leisuretown was the best webcomic ever made, at least so far in the internet's short life. I hope it will return in some form.
posted by Spacelegoman at 10:12 AM on November 22, 2003


DOOD hook it up
posted by Keyser Soze at 9:31 PM on November 22, 2003


please! Screw the author, its the publics now.
posted by Keyser Soze at 9:49 PM on November 22, 2003


We want our Leisuretown! Bring it on! Isn't he somehow affiliated with Jerk City?
posted by sparky at 2:25 PM on November 23, 2003


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