I`ll rant about this more later... I must go to work.
But for the love of all that is holy, smut sells!!!
...

BIG OL' BOOBIES KEEPS YOU IN THE TOP TEN... and I ask why?
I love t&a, don`t get me wrong but what happened to creativity?

Well its the same way that Marvel keeps selling comics, poorly written pap (pun intended)with extreme bustiness like Emma Frost keeps the drooling masses of fat virgins happy.

Hmm - my strip already stars three hot girls. I mean, I'd love to sell out - but I think I already did!

Oh well. If hot girls can't get me into the top ten, then Next time I'm gonna have a, um, a story, or characters, or sumthin.

Prolly.

- stacey

Peter Melvin
Well its the same way that Marvel keeps selling comics, poorly written pap (pun intended)with extreme bustiness like Emma Frost keeps the drooling masses of fat virgins happy.

You should read Vertigo comics. At least those have good stories to go along with some of the fanservice.

Obviously you haven't seen all the yaoi comics on the top 25.

Sex sells.

And unfourtunatly for me Politics don't.

i think most of the people buy adspace off the site to get high numbers

They buy adspace? Seriously?

Just when I'm starting to think Im getting the hang of things, I find out that I am being naive.

I never look at ads. Perhaps I should pay more attention.

Oh well - I make the best comic ever, and thats what matters, right?

Hahaha, Well boobs and bums don't get me there and I've had that since I started on DD lol!
Interestingly, Craving Control (who I'm sure you're talking about) is indeed the second most popular comic on DD and got there very soon after it started. But Charby the Vampirate is our number one by FAR! No booby sex sells for Charbs! -although the new thumbnail is pretty sexy...

But Charbs is so far ahead of everything else because it great, it's massive, as far as I know it''s only hosted here, it's been going for ages, etc... But basically you DON'T need boobs to get into the top ten! But we'd all like to think they do because it'd be an easy answer. Seriously, I WISH it was that simple.

CC is the only comic I currently see in the top ten that I would say is kept there by boobs. The only other one I see with a "sex-ified" thumbnail is Elijah and Azuu, and I feel pretty safe in saying that it's not there because of the boobs.

Kind of a silly thing to say. :/

Its true... as you say you don`t have to have a big only titty comic avatar to bring more views to your comic but it does help. I personaly like how certain comics like Nintendo Super Squad throwing a big boobed link-et in the Comic Thumbnail POKE FUN at the point that nipples are more prevelent in the top comics than love stains in a brothel. In all reality there are only 8.5 sets of big ol' racks in the top twenty and eight of those are in the top twelve. In all fairness the audience Drunk Duck atracts is younger youth... oooo comics!, ooooo drunk!!!.... ducks are cool like huey doobie and loopey right? And that is awesome long live Drunk Duck and its promotion and free sharing of opinions and comics. So Cheers to milk maids and their jugs... sex does sell but craving control needs to stop making me have unpure thoughts about a comic chartaer.

In Closing FAT KIDS love those boobies... now that was funny who ever said that.

huh!?

Ah, found that a bit insulting at first but...now I'm just blank.^^;

ooohh so thats why my comic isnt so popular...cuz i know its not my story...that stuff is gold.. Aside from the whores in the first few pages my comic is a bit of a sausage fest right now, and the gay jokes aren't helping because i bet my two main characters come off as gay now..dammit. (not that there's anything wrong with that kinda thing) To make matters worse the girl i planned to appear as a main stay...isn't all that hot right away...unless you like the nerdy glasses look? (which i do)

*sigh* maybe a big pair of boobs as my thumbnail might get more hits...hmm....

I have a bum as my thumbnail, mostly as a joke about the boob trend.

Corn Doggy Dog
In all reality there are only 8.5 sets of big ol' racks in the top twenty and eight of those are in the top twelve.

...? lol! Are we looking at a different site or something?



I see four, maybe five comics with "boobs" prominently featured in the thumbnail in the top 25. o.O

Crap, people think my heroine is a man half the time, I'll never get in the top ten! *dramatic sob*
...Seriously though, I think it's making a horrendous sweeping statement to say all the popular comics here do well because of boobs. They might boost views, but in the end, you'll get more dedicated readers with a good story, characters and art. Stuff like 'Charby' and 'Purgatory Tower' prove you can get up there without sex! ....if you have violence.
There ya go! Violence is the answer! ...Except it's not. Having a good comic is the answer really.

Heck, I don't have boobs OR color!

One day though, one fine day, SKULLS will be the new BOOBS and I'll be raking in the hits!

Yessir.

-Dave

Roguehill
One day though, one fine day, SKULLS will be the new BOOBS and I'll be raking in the hits!

I dunno... Strap a couple across your chest...

ozoneocean

Roguehill
One day though, one fine day, SKULLS will be the new BOOBS and I'll be raking in the hits!

I dunno... Strap a couple across your chest...

Yeah. I see what you mean.

Sigh....

Huh. I guess that means my comic(WHEN IT GETS STARTED, THAT IS!) won't be all that popular.

Unless.....

....nah.

It's not the boobs that are getting the comics where they are. It's that they're well drawn and well written, mostly.

Roguehill
Yeah. I see what you mean.

Sigh....

That is SO hot. o_O

Dear silent Kitty, 8.5 out of the top 12 comic strips... sorry I wasn`t more specific!

ozoneocean
That is SO hot. o_O

I think so too. Especially that bookish pipe! Dayuuuum.

Oh Mam, I`m excited about this topic. Where to start though? Comics on drunk duck buying adspace? now that is freaking a sad waste of money on a comic with charaters in tight clothing and pointy ears. There should be a game made and added to drunk duck that is just like pacman but instead of pacman it can be a half naked elf woman or something... instead of ghosts chasing you it can be fat sprite comic creators with one thing on their sex deprived minds... Tah Tah's! That could be the name of the game... who is in on making this game?

http://www.cartoonsforgrownups.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/11/patrick.jpg

i have 3 hot chicks in my comic. maybe i should change the icon to show them making out with each other. that would be hot.

Alright, I just have to laugh at this thread. Mostly at the kids getting their panties in a bunch over this 'hot topic'. I can just imagine you screaming at your monitors for not giving you INSTANT INTRANETZ FAME, when clearly, your 5-page comic is worthy of the #1 spot on everything EVER.

But enough of that. Did it ever occur to you that the comics might actually be... GOOD!? That having provocative thumbnails might not be the ONLY reason they're in the top 20? (Keeping in mind, of course, that most of the comics in the actual Top 20 have fairly modest thumbnails). And let's keep in mind the number of comics with provocative thumbnails that aren't even in the Top 100:

Blood Bound
A Murder of Two
Hell to Pay
Grandpa Sex Machine
Le Farce
Dome Busta the Demon Within
Somewhere in San Francisco...
Badgirlz
Spirit of the Samurai
Ninja Ninja Panic
Three Treasures
Angelos the Fallen
Love Bite
The Naked Nurse

So shut it. I swear to God, I am so sick of threads like these.

I'm going to totally have a flat chested girl as my thumbnail, I'll see where that goes.

Enef
It's not the boobs that are getting the comics where they are. It's that they're well drawn and well written, mostly.

Quoted myself for emphasis.

Corn Doggy Dog
Its true... as you say you don`t have to have a big only titty comic avatar to bring more views to your comic but it does help.

O_O Look away from the avatar that is trying to exploit this.

I look for good stories in my comic. I don't check out many of the strips, mostly a book fan.
I like larger than life characters with the story as well. So far my comic has very little skin because my main female characters wear conservative clothing. But that is because of the type of person each one is and how they were raised.

Also my alien book has no females at all... unless all the aliens are female, but they have the "no genitals syndrome"