O&M Sharing

[Tavis]

I suddenly got to thinking about this: What kinds of ways have any of you tried sharing your fandom of Ozy and Millie with others? I read from a couple others so far stuff like posting them on refrigerators, printing them out and pinning them to cubicles or stuff like that...<br><br>On a hit of inspiration, I downloaded the archives and saved them on a PDA with HTML... (about 67 megs, in case you're wondering) so I could share a comic whenever someone does something that makes me think "Hey, I have the perfect Ozy and Millie comic for that!" Hopefully, this will help spread word-of-mouth a little better.

[Supersmoke]

Printed out one of the comics that I thought was hilarious and spread the joy. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... iggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo--><br>I now have it stapled to the back of my desk, for all to see

[Frankenmuth]

I've posted up strips in my LiveJournal, I talk about O&M all the time in normal convos, make personal jokes from some strips, soon I'll start sending strips in letters to friends (there is a story behind that, I'm not all the random you know), I draw fan art for classes, I'm sure there is other things I do that help spread O&M but I can't think of them right now. I'll most likely think of them right after I reply...but that's how it always works.

[masked llama]

I have found that using quotes from O&M as away messages for AOL Instant Messanger and then providing a link to the comic strip is a good way to introduce people to the strip. They click the link to see the comic I quoted and then they surf some of the ones after it. <br> If you do try this, don't link to strips in the middle of an important storyline, such as the Millie, Ms. Mudd, Captain Locke storyline. I confused a lot of people with that one. <br> Examples: <br> "Like many philosophers who came before me, I note, the universe could use more candy" -Millie<br>www.ozyandmillie.org<br> "You know what's really interesting? My cushion fort-building skills have proven vastly more useful than knowing the capital of Kentucky" -ozy<br><a href='http://www.ozyandmillie.net/1999/om19990920.html' target='_blank'>http://www.ozyandmillie.net/1999/om19990920.html</a><br> And <br> "It is better to bravely endure the indignities of love...than to be poked in both eyes with a sharpened wax banana." -old dragon saying<br><a href='http://www.ozyandmillie.org/2001/om20011018.html' target='_blank'>http://www.ozyandmillie.org/2001/om2001 ... /a><br><br> That's how I do it, and it works pretty well. <br><br> P.S. This is my first ever quote on a real message board, so if did something wrong, I'm sorry!!<br>

[Yurple]

I, too, did the classical move of printing out a few, passing them around to people whom I suspected would like 'em and finding I was right most of the time. <!--emo&^_^--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... /happy.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='happy.gif' /><!--endemo-->

[Caigan]

When I was in highschool, I used to print out a ton of my favorite webcomic strips and keep them in a binder. Complete waste of paper now that I think of it, but when your suffering through the boredom of droning teachers, you take all appropriate measures.<br><br>Anyways, I kept the binder out a lot. It had clear pockets on the fronts and sides where I placed my favorite strips comics (used to be PVP until I found Ozy and Millie). Got lots of comments about them.<br><br>A lot of times it'd be "you read comics? lame." then they'd read the ones I had and laugh.<br><br>Most people I talk to online when they mention their bored, I point them to O&M in hopes that they haven't seen it yet. Never had someone say they didn't like it yet.

[Sabre]

I pass around the books wear, O&m attire and sport my O&m merchandise.<br><br>I also draw them on everything, not only my things, but people who ask for them as well.

[simon]

Well, once I am able to I'll be wearing an O&M shirt, and I also doodle alot in my books at school, and when people ask what I'm doodling I tell them about Ozy and Millie(unless by some chance I'm not doodling O&M). Doodle.<br><br>Once I get a job I'll do the old pinning up comics routine. Dilbert can get a bit boring when you've seen the same one over and over pinned on the walls.

[Kale T. Raptor]

I've got an Ozy and Millie button in my sig on Ezboard, a link to it in my blog I also mention it whenever the topic of webcomics are brought up on other boards.

[Magorien]

in the begining, there was O&M... *cue fuzzy grey flashback* the day i discovered it was when i begain sharing... i was talking to my best friend at the time and sent her a link, we both begain reading and sending each other the goodies. after that i begain emailing the best of them to my entire email list*ive actually had a freind tell me to stop because i was overloading her email system <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... s/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' /><!--endemo-->* and soon other frineds were emailing back saying how brilliant it was, and that they were sharing as well! as i;ve already sent just about all of them, i've now resorted to printing them out for my binders and am working on schoolbook covers w/ O&M on them. aside from that, me and said best friend quote O&M to each other constantly *the note we were passing back and forth during class today begain with "Excusse me miss, how many MATTRESSES are you hiding on your person?"*, i relate O&M to everyday life and tell my family about the strip, i've even used some of Millie's elaborate jokes on my freinds, i.e.the recently rerun Queen of all i survey one, i managed to get my friend to buy me a soda *i couldnt bring myself to take her money tho, and she bought one for herself that i shared* and in general obsess about it to anybody who will stay still for long enough...

[generic]

Ozy and Millie is just so good you can't keep it to yourself for very long. I printed out some of my favourite ones and placed them on the fridge for all three of my other family members to see. <br><br>There are now three extra Ozy and Millie readers in the world.

[Ahsirakh]

I put in on my blog. And since all my friends have Nothing Better To Do&#153;, they read.<br><br>So far, I have converted at least three people. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://definecynical.mancubus.net/forum ... iggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->

[Titanium Dragon]

I've tried sharing the comic with others, but they usually don't really catch on to it too much. One good friend of mine, who LOVES Calvin & Hobbes, said when I showed it to him that "This strip is a watered down version of Calvin & Hobbes".<br><br>Now, I found this highly interesting as a complaint, as Calvin & Hobbes is a very good comic. I think his main objection was that the format was highly similar in many ways - Millie and Calvin have a LOT in common, though Millie is far less destructive personality-wise and is much more playful. I dunno, really; I like Ozy & Millie a lot, and would say that it is one of the best webcomics there is. It is obvious at times however that Simpson is not totally professional - strips like his election 2002 one were highly reactionary, even a form of angst. There is nothing wrong with that in and of itself, and I agree with the sentiment. Just strips like that rub me the wrong way for whatever reason, whereas strips like the Mr. Dubya ones do not. (I'm highly liberal I might add, and agree with pretty much all of Rain's views politically) I do read it every day though, and tell others to take a look at it, and I like it a lot and laugh at it, and about twice a month go through the entire archieve.

[Tavis]

I noticed this last night, but failed to mention it on the boards, but ZIP files of the archives are now available on the O&M website. I don't know how long it has been like that, but I found it amusing that that appeared so soon after I did it the hard way.

[Caigan]

really? yeesh, I spent all that time manuallyg rabbing each oen too lol. =P