It's CSR's Anniversary!

[sunflower309]

hi Web-ed,

and congratulations on 10 years! a lot of hard work to be sure on your part. and a lot for us to enjoy. since I came about 91/2 years into this site I've been kept very busy trying to catch up. of course I have to wait until everyone in the house are sleeping or elsewhere occupied, so I don't have the time I would like to catch up. I haven't found anything on here that I haven't liked so far. I like your articles, you are a very knowledgeable spanker to be sure. I have learned some thing along the way and am looking forward to more of your articles. I love all the resident artists! I think that they are my favorites. I can't wait for Fridays when Phil posts a new pic, or when B00m or Dan share something. and I also, as the lone spankee (for now) who posts, I feel very comfortable sharing with all the spankers on here. hope you keep going for a long time to come! thanks for all your hard work web-ed!

sunflower

[web-ed]

Thanks everybody!

[web-ed]

Where CSR Stands Today

First, let’s take a look at a few numbers. Here are the number of different web pages on CSR by department:

Articles – 24
Comics Gallery 1 – 233
Comics Gallery 2 – 307
Doctor Cylon Gallery – 171
Fiction – 27
Picture Gallery – 148
Humor Gallery – 291
Videos & Games – 33

Total – 1234 web pages. That’s a lot of spanking, especially when you consider that some of these pages are quite long!

In addition to that, CSR has two searchable data bases, one of 665 spankings from comic books and strips and the other of 207 Humorama spanking cartoons - how many more of each we might find is a subject I’ll take up next week. So if readers want to search for Superman giving spankings or the spanking art of Bill Ward (Humorama period only), the data bases provide an easy way for them to do it, and the code I wrote makes specific searches easier than you could do on any blog. You can, for example, search for all M/F Popeye spankings before 1955, if you wish – the most you can do with blogging software is search on “Popeye” and hope for the best.

On the Forum, we have over 5700 posts and very nearly 1500 attached picture files, plus an unknown number of linked files - that, too, is a lot of spanking (and missed opportunities, Humorama models, etc.). It's really amazing when you consider that all of that is the result of a relatively few people contributing.

CSR is then a very large site – not quite the largest spanking site out there, but large enough, and I think the best organized. The big problem with blogs is that they’re only indexed with searchable keywords, meaning the only way to browse them is to go through all the archived blog posts. With CSR, not only can you search on any word or phrase you care to with the built-in search function, you can view thumbnail pictures of all the visual materials, organized by department. To put it another way, with blogs you can only search; with CSR you can browse.

What this means is that when new readers discover CSR, they can easily go through the mountain of spanking material we have here, and they can do so in a systematized way a little at a time using the index pages to decide what they want to look at in more detail. This is probably the greatest advantage CSR, as a fully-powered web site, has over spanking blogs.

And speaking of new readers, we’ve currently got 16,000 non-robot visitors/month, a little less than last year, but that’s still a lot compared to most spanking sites. That’s probably some kind of plateau; at this point I’m not too worried about getting more people to view the site although I’m sure there are a few who’d enjoy it. If you do an internet search on “comic book spanking” or “batgirl spanking” or anything similar, you’ll find CSR at or near the top of the search results, so I think I’ve done what I can to make the site easy to find.

So much for the quantitative side. What about quality? I’m not a particularly modest man, and I honestly think CSR is about as good as it could possibly be. Sometimes I worry about the lack of graphical design work, which of course I can’t afford, but on the other hand, with all those spanking comics and works of our Resident Artists, who needs graphic design? The site’s design is simple, but it works, and I really think its only drawback is that websites are becoming so standardized that some people may be confused by the old-fashioned “radio button” design (pure 1990’s) on the Home Page of the departmental links.

As to the contents, what do we have?

• More comics than you’ll find anywhere else, including a lot of my own personal discoveries.
• Humorama cartoons – ditto.
• Independent art – yes, I’ve taken a lot of this from other spanking sites, but I’ve also found a great many superheroine spankings on porno sites and even straight super-hero sites, material which would be completely unknown in the spanko community if I hadn’t located and re-posted it.
• Other old cartoons – once I get around to posting my non-Humorama collection from the 50’s and 60’s, CSR will again have the finest assortment available. There are only a dozen or so, but that’s still more than you can find elsewhere.
• Other Humor cartoons and the Picture Gallery: I’ve already got a good selection here. They’ve probably been overshadowed by the emphasis on Comics and Humorama the past five years.
• Critical articles – Again, I think we’re number one here. We’ve built up a repository over the years, and the only thing lacking has been a comprehensive series on spanking psychology, which I’m writing now. With its completion this year (summer or fall), we’ll have all the bases covered, meaning we will have left no aspect of spanking unaddressed. That doesn’t mean we won’t have more to say in the future – I’m sure we will!
• Fiction – o.k., we’re not the top spanking fiction site. There are others who specialize in this and do a pretty good job. On the other hand, I’m proud of our few authors and their individual points of view. My plan is to go on publishing fiction, but it won’t get more emphasis than it has right now.

Taking all this together, I think the site is in pretty good shape at the moment, and again my thanks to everyone who has helped me make it what it is today. So where do we go from here? I’ll take up that question next week, as we conclude our 10th Anniversary special celebration.

[web-ed]

I suppose to answer that question we have to look at two separate areas, spanking material for pure enjoyment and educational articles. In the first category would be Fiction and the five galleries of visual material (Comics 1 & 2, Picture, Humor, Doctor Cylon) plus the contributions of our Resident Artists on the CSR Forum, and in the second, Articles. I think after this year’s series on The Whys of Spanking, my contributions to the Articles Section will probably slow down, but we will have articles on the history of spanking material in non-Humorama men’s magazines and the history of the spanking cartoon at some point, and perhaps some more How-To’s.

I will publish more fiction as it becomes available. I still have several stories by MD and we’re definitely going to see all of them eventually.

I’m always worried about running out of visual material, but right now there’s no immediate danger of that. I still have a fair amount of items I salvaged from Underground Animations.com as well as miscellaneous items sent to me or that I discovered. I’m going to have to cut it down to one or two items per week at some point due to time pressure, as that really used to be the norm before 2009-2010.

Comic-book and strip spankings: I have some of these in my files we haven’t seen yet, but more importantly, I have no doubt there are more out there. I will continue to search Golden Age comics as they become available – old strips are more of a problem as the primary source I was using is no longer available. There were still Romance Comics during the Silver and Bronze Ages, and much of this material has never been searched because it isn’t in the Public Domain, for example the titles from Atlas (Marvel) and DC. Unfortunately, my theory is that there is a virtual “lost decade” of comic-book spankings from 1956-1966 due to the Comics Code Authority, which is fully two-thirds of the Silver Age, but I believe there has to be something there. The 70’s are problematic, but DC was still in the Romance genre then, and there might even be something more from Charlton, although I’ve searched all their issues I could find. I’m not expecting too much more from the superhero genre, but you never can tell.

Archie and Harvey are two more good possibilities, at least from the Golden Age. Many of these titles are still unavailable to me, but what I was able to go through proved fertile ground. Some lead features such as Buck Rogers and the Green Hornet are still unavailable due to copyright concerns, but they present obvious possibilities if I can ever get at them. I know we’d all like to see more spankings of Betty and Veronica, but if these exist they’re probably in Archie’s early days rather than the 60’s or 70’s.

There are also a few minor searches still ongoing; for example, a few remaining issues of the Charles Moulton-era Wonder Woman have not been searched. There is one not-too-good sorority paddling in there somewhere, and as for anything else, we’ll just have to wait and see until I can get ahold of those last few issues.

Humorama – 208 cartoons are currently in the DB. 8 others are known plus 1 whose origin has not been confirmed. There are also a few posed spanking scenes with models. There are probably a small number remaining to be discovered, perhaps 3 from the classic period of 1956-60 and 5 from Humorama’s final decade, when Ward and Wenzel produced some new ones.

Format: I don’t expect any major format changes. I’ve cleaned up the Home Page slightly by moving the “About Us” verbiage to a separate page, and when I revisit old pages to add things to them I also make minor changes, if necessary, to bring them up to the standards of my latest templates (c. 2011). Even if I wanted a format change, it would probably have to be confined to the Home Page as I can’t imagine re-coding over 1200 separate pages!

Persistence and Longevity: The past year has seen a number of long-running spanking blogs close down: Suzie and Todd at A.S.S. (American Spanking Society), Prefect D, and Bonnie’s My Bottom Smarts are the ones that come first to mind. I actually brought this topic up a couple of years ago (see The Lifespan of Spanking Sites). Ironically, I mentioned My Bottom Smarts as a blog that seemed to be going strong, and Bonnie did tough it out for eight years, but it’s gone now just the same. There are various reasons why so many blogs just don’t last, so having addressed in general terms what I hope to do with CSR in the future, let me just reassure everyone that CSR won’t be shutting its doors any time soon.

CSR is more work than a blog, and yet I took it on ten years ago and continue to do it. Having once searched 1000 comic-book pages per day for 300 consecutive days(!), a record which I’m sure will never be surpassed, I still want to find more comic spankings, and I still search several thousand pages per month. I doggedly pursue every Humorama digest and magazine from key periods I can find, determined to ferret out Humorama’s last secrets. That puts me in a different category from someone who starts a spanking blog thinking it might be fun to write about spanking but without a clear direction in mind. I started CSR because I thought the spanko world needed it and I figured I was the only one who could pull it off. Call it egotistical if you like, but that’s a strong motivation, and I can’t say I’ve changed my thinking on the subject! For all the effort involved, it does bring me some satisfaction to be able to point to CSR and say, “I did that”.

Spanking is probably as old as Man, and I think there are things on CSR with a timeless appeal that should resonate years from now with spankos yet unborn. I often think I should find a younger partner to take over some of the work and to carry on the tradition when I’ve gone on to that big spanking party in the sky, but even that shows my determination to go on with it. I’ve still got a few things to say, I still have a lot of stuff in my files, and I’m still looking for more. If there comes a day when I can’t think of an article to write and I don’t have any decent spanking material to share, I suppose I’ll just say “No updates this week, but I won’t give up trying to find more good material to share with you all next time”.

And maybe that last says it all: “I won’t give up trying to find more good material to share with CSR’s readers.”

[butch46163@yahoo.com]

BIG THUMBS UP ON A JOB WELL DONE WEB-ED Never in my life did I thought I see spanking from comics and drawing for most of my life I spent plenty of money buying Comic books searching for spanking! some hit some miss! But here I can see many of bad women getting their comeuppance the old fashion way otk from comics way back when spanking was the norm PLEASE KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK AND HOPE TO SEE ANOTHER 10 YEARS!!!!!!! THANKS

[web-ed]

Thanks very much for being a loyal reader, Butch, and I certainly hope to be around doing this for another ten years!

[web-ed]

Well, #11 has come and gone this April without any fanfare since it's not a big one like the 10th last year. I don't have a whole lot to say - I'm not even sure how many web pages I've got posted at this point! Windows Explorer marks it at 1300, but since that's how many I had last year, I'd guess it's closer to 1400 (there are 1600 including some of the "base" elements of this bulletin board). Some day I'll have to devise a way of getting an accurate count. And we must never forget we have almost as many pictures on this forum as we do on the main site (once again I can't get an accurate count, this time because of all the linked images). Suffice it to say that CSR is pretty big!

I'm under a great deal of pressure these days for a number of reasons that I won't go into. Nonetheless, I'm not giving up CSR, although I might have to cut back to one update per week. For the present time, we'll continue with two per week until Super-Spanking Summer kicks in on May 22, at which point I intend to go up to 3 updates per week. Right now I have no idea what we'll be doing in the fall, but rest assured I'll still be here, posting recycled stuff from the old Underground-Animations site if nothing else. And our Resident Artists Dan, b00m, and Phil will no doubt keep busy as well, picking up whatever slack there might be on the main site.

As I mentioned in the Weekly Updates, I did make one small change to the Home Page, which now features a "Blast from the Past" aimed at newer readers who haven't been with us since 2004 and who haven't had time to go through each of the galleries individually.

Meanwhile, the searches for new spankings will continue despite all obstacles ! And I still have a lot of good stuff in the files, so stick with us - you never know what you may find on CSR!

[jimc]

Boy time really does fly. Congrats Nick for ten years. I am glad to get more backstory on the many contributors that CSR had. Well done to each and everyone that did contribute to make the database and all that has followed. Thanks Nick for all you do and have done for the site. Here's to 10 more years. Have a great day
Jim

[butch46163@yahoo.com]

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY CSR Never in my life could I have dream there were be a place were I could see Spanking in comic books strips or art but here it is! I have been a big fan of spanking drawings since I was 7 and spent plenty of money buying comic books hoping to see spankings But here it is every spanking from every comic plus load of spanking from Humorama! Also Big Thumbs Up to you WEB-Ed on your Great effort to finding Great spanking from comics and the info you give about them! Congratulation CSR hope to see more!

[web-ed]

Thanks very much, Butch! You'll be glad to know I'm on the job day and night - only a little while ago I was trying to get a certain Golden Age comic I recently discovered contains a spanking. I failed this time, but I won't give up. There's another one I found relatively recently, but it's going to be even harder to obtain as it goes for about $900 - when you can find a copy. But as I think you know, I never give up, even if it takes years, and sooner or later you'll be seeing those two spankings here on CSR.

[web-ed]

April is here, and with it CSR's 14th Anniversary. Yes, it was 14 years ago on a date in April future scholars will long struggle to identify (because I forgot to record it ) that I uploaded the first few pages and launched the site. Perhaps it's just as well that 14 is sort of an odd anniversary (though an even number) because I simply haven't been able to produce any special feature this year due to lack of time. What I'd like to do is write a series of relatively short posts in a new topic talking about what I'd like to do with CSR and how much of that is likely to come to fruition in the foreseeable future. But let's take a quick inventory here first:

current CSR page counts

articles - 29
db - 3
comicspage - 337
comicspage2 - 366
doc cylon - 178
events - 1
fiction - 30
gallery - 188
home - 3
humor - 327
video - 39

Total - 1501

On the board: 11,000 posts with 2800 picture files attachments,
314 linked images by me, and an unknown number by Dan!

These are impressive numbers, certainly, although we can see that the total number of pages on the main site hasn't grown very quickly since we had 1234 four years ago, which translates into 67 new pages per year or only a little more than 1 per week. The Bulletin Board has grown much more quickly, and the reason is obvious: I've got a lot of help over here, whereas I have to individually write and code each new page on the main site. Also, when I merely update an existing page of course the total page count doesn't increase (only the word count !).

CSR's strengths and weaknesses flow mainly from these basic facts: we have an awful lot of great spanking material here with more to come in the future thanks to the assistance of too many people to name and of course my own not-insignificant efforts. On the other hand, we're still something of a one-man-band type of operation, with a single person doing all the technical work along with much of the writing and editing. This limits our rate of growth, but perhaps that's not too much of a problem. In another post we should consider the appeal of CSR and whether it extends to younger generations, since many of us have reached or are rapidly approaching an age at which we could be grandparents.

O.K., I want to keep these posts short so I'll just sign off with my continuing promise that no matter how hard things may be, I intend to continue with CSR as long as I'm around, although at some point I'm going to need an apprentice, which will make for a very interesting job description .

[butch46163@yahoo.com]

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY CSR!!!!!!!!! When I first found this site I couldn`t believe what I was seeing plenty of spanking from comic books and magazines growing up a spanko I always loved comic books and search many of them for spankings CSR you guys did a Fantastic job finding nearly every spanking in comic ever old and new plus the info to go along with them your really know your spanking omic Hope to see many more years of CSR !!! THANKS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[web-ed]

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY CSR!!!!!!!!! When I first found this site I couldn`t believe what I was seeing plenty of spanking from comic books and magazines growing up a spanko I always loved comic books and search many of them for spankings CSR you guys did a Fantastic job finding nearly every spanking in comic ever old and new plus the info to go along with them your really know your spanking omic Hope to see many more years of CSR !!! THANKS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You're welcome, Butch, and thank you for the kind words.

[daneldorado]

Happy Anniversary CSR!

I can't remember when I first laid eyes on this excellent website, but I was truly amazed to find that someone out there -- i.e., YOU -- had the same perverted fetish that I myself have nursed for lo, these many years!

I spent most of the 20th century quietly dreaming up scenes of males spanking gorgeous females over their knees. Occasionally -- TOO occasionally -- a scene like that would pop up on our movie and TV screens, and the world seemed like a happier place, for a while. But as the deadly scourge of Feminism gained traction, the number of scenes of male/female spankings began to dwindle. Like most spankos, I began to fear that those lovely scenes would disappear forever. But then, you created the Chicago Spanking Review and the world woke up to find that M/F scenes, properly displayed, could brighten our days again.

As I say, I don't know when I first saw CSR, but trust me it is the most glorious jewel on the Internet.

Happy Anniversary!

Cheers,
Dan

[overbarrel49]

Hi web-ed,

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO CSR . I don't know about everyone else, but I am entirely satisfied with the rate of growth of CSR and I think you're doing a great job . I have a hunch that if we were growing much faster, our members wouldn't be able to keep up with everything anyway. Thanks for all the hard work. Phil

[hugob00m]

Congratulations on your anniversary! I missed out on the very beginning of C.S.R. but I've been around since 2010, and I'm glad you're still going!

[web-ed]

Thanks so much everyone, and for all you yourselves have contributed.

[jimc]

yes it always amazing that CSR has been around that long. I cannot remember when i 1st laid eyes on CSR either it was just great to be able to find a spanking site about the comics, humorama and other fun things (artists) so i would like to thank all that contribute and show you where to find lost gems. Thanks for a wonderful 14 years and hope you find an able apprentice or for that matter a nice secretary that likes Dan Decarlo and Homers take on their work conditions. Have a great day.
Jim

[web-ed]

yes it always amazing that CSR has been around that long. I cannot remember when i 1st laid eyes on CSR either it was just great to be able to find a spanking site about the comics, humorama and other fun things (artists) so i would like to thank all that contribute and show you where to find lost gems. Thanks for a wonderful 14 years and hope you find an able apprentice or for that matter a nice secretary that likes Dan Decarlo and Homers take on their work conditions. Have a great day.
Jim

Thanks, Jim, for your long support ! And I love your suggestion about a secretary - imagine what her job description would look like: "Must be willing to accept OTK spankings for any spelling errors and to bend over her desk to receive paddle-swats for any other screw-ups..." Wonder how many women would apply for the job