This is a fine example of comic-book spanking - I've seen it before, and in fact I have it in my files, but I never got around to posting it on the main site (I probably will later in the year). Because it's in Spanish, I'm not sure exactly what's going on between the characters, but the art shows us that a damn good spanking is taking place! The fact that it's extended over a number of panels emphasizes the spanking and lets us really enjoy it - all too often, comic-book spankings last for only one panel and don't even give us an aftermath.
Of course, Dan, you are perfectly well aware of all this because in your own comics you extend the spanking over several panels (good spanking-storytelling) AND give us an after-the-spanking panel as well! And speaking of your work, I'm sorry that no one responded to your post last week. I saw that it was out there, but I was in the middle of fighting "Spam Wars" just then and didn't have the time to think about your cartoons enough to comment on them intelligently, although I made a mental note to return next day. By then, alas, it was too late.
So why didn't anyone speak up? I've tried to figure this out before, and here are some ideas on the subject:
- Some people probably only visit this board once per week at most, knowing the CSR main site will be updated on Friday (really by Thursday night these days). Maybe they check on Fridays, or maybe Sundays are better for them. This group would never have seen your work in the middle of the week. Honestly, I'm trying to cut down my own visits to two per week, because I'm under tremendous time pressure writing and coding all the new pages each week, plus conducting the Great Golden Age Comic Spanking Search. Even uploading the new files to my server each week can take an hour!
- Subscribers - that is, people who subscribe to a particular topic. I don't know how many people subscribe to the Comic-Book Forum. The board doesn't provide me with that information, and while I could probably pry it out of the various tables in the Data Base, that would take more time than I have at the moment, even though I am curious. You'd think that the subscribers, however many there are, would surely take a look. But even this assumption may be untenable - I subscribe to Chross's board, but I use my "spanking email" address and I don't check that mailbox every day. Maybe some other people are doing the same thing. "joeblow@aol.com" could be a "business" type address checked daily, while at night Joe becomes "joespanko@hotmail.net" - an address that's only checked every few days. This of course would cause a delay.
- Shyness - this is a terrible problem that afflicts a lot of people and can make their lives miserable. There are probably some people out there who see your posts but simply can't overcome their self-consciousness enough to post a reply.
- Non-members - unfortunately, I've had to restrict the board so that only members may post as part of my spam-fighting efforts. Some people won't join, either because they're too shy, or because it's just too much trouble, and of course that means they can't post. Any time I'm on the board, the number of guest users is always greater than the number of members, usually by a ratio of three or four to one. Of course, some of these "guests" are really spambots, but the fact remains that there are a lot of people who will read the board but won't post on it.
Anyway, I'm sorry it seemed like no one was paying any attention to your efforts. I know how bad that feels - it's worse than not being paid. [For those readers who may not know, Dan's cartoons were originally produced for organizations such as spanking magazines that actually paid him for his work. At
CSR, no one gets paid for anything no matter how good it is because I don't have any money! I did commission a couple of pieces in the past, when I was still working, but that was at least two years ago. We've been lucky that contributors like Dan have posted their work
gratis. If I could, I'd certainly commission Dan to do some new work for us.]
I suspect you have more fans than you know - some people are directed to CSR by the major search engines because they were searching for your stuff. Here are some of the most recent numbers by search phrase, for January:
spanking sal - 16
spanky sal - 14
dan rivera cartoons - 2
dan rivera spanking cartoons - 16
dan rivera - 1
captain woodshed - 17
captain woodshed cartoon spanking photos - 2
site chicagospankingreview.org sam swatt spanking - 26
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55 (wow!)
sam swatt spanking - 41
So obviously, the interest is there. Remember that at least some of these searchers would have wound up in the main site rather than on this board due to differences in the way the page metadata is coded, among other things (I've become pretty good in coding my pages so they get a high search engine ranking, but I can't control any of that on this board). They may have come to CSR searching for your work, ironically never realizing that the freshest examples were on this board.