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Horrible artwork, terrible storyline, zilch characterization, and extremely dull, obvious jokes. And yet it was a smash hit! I think this demonstrates that the public will embrace just about anything if it's free and the circumstances are right. And it indicates that new internet users of the time were really hungry, downright starving, for entertainment.... his current work is comparatively slick and professional. But I suspect that his early work had enormous influence, because it encouraged thousands of people with few skills and little talent to jump into the webcomics field." Zabel also credited User Friendly's success in part to its "series mascot", Dust Puppy, saying that "the popular gag-a-day cartoons almost always have some kind of mascot."
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site. On his website, Frazer said, "I offered no attribution or asked for permission , over the last couple of years I've infringed on the expression of ideas of some (who I think are) clever people. Plagiarized. My hypocrisy seems to know no bounds, as an infamous gunman was once heard saying. I sincerely apologize to my readers and to the original authors. I offer no excuses and accept full blame and responsibility. As a result, I'll be modifying the cartoons in question. No, it won't happen again. Yes, I've immersed myself in mild acid."
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same punching bags as before." Burns said that characters learn no lessons, and that "f Frazer uses copy and paste to put his characters in, he's been using the same clip art for the entire 21st century." Burns also criticised the stereotypical depiction of idiotic computer users as outdated. But fundamentally, Burns found the strip funny, saying anyone who had worked IT would likely find it funny, and even those who had not will find something in it amusing. Burns felt that some criticism of
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comic, users searched and found several other examples. Initially, Frazer posted on MetaFilter saying "I get a flurry of submissions and one-liners every week, and I haven't checked many of them at all, because I rarely had to in the past" but later admitted that he had taken quotes directly from the
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In a 2008 article, reviewer Eric Burns said that as best he could tell, Frazer had produced strips seven days a week, without missing an update for, at that time, almost 11 years. Frazer would draw several days' worth of comics in advance, but the Sunday comic – based on current events and in color –
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In a 2008 review, Eric Burns of Websnark called it a "damned good comic strip", but felt it had several problems. Burns felt that the strip had not evolved in several years, saying "his strip is exactly the same today as it was in 1998... the same characters, the same humor, the same punchlines, the
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From November 1, 2010 through November 21, 2010, Illiad published a special "Remembrance Day story arc", and stated that it is "vague and at this point random" what will happen to the strip afterwards, that "going daily again is highly unlikely", but that "there are still many stories that I want to
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and frequently defends their marketing tactics, infuriating the techies, he has a real problem with Microsoft salesmen, probably because they make much more money than he does. His attitude towards women is decidedly chauvinist; he lusts after Miranda who will not have anything to do with him. Stef
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Stef is the strip's Corporate Sales Manager. He runs most of the marketing efforts within the firm, often selling things before they exist. He is a stereotypical marketer, with an enormous ego and a condescending attitude toward the techies; they detest him and frequently retaliate with pranks. He
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Sid Dabster's beautiful daughter. The character appeared for the first time in the strip of Aug. 30, 2001. Pearl is often seen getting the better of the boys. She is the antagonist of Miranda, and occasionally the object of Pitr's affections, much to the chagrin of Sid. Some people (both in strip
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Lawrence I. Charters appreciated the nature of the titles used for the published books. Francis Glassborow cited the specificity of the humour, which also lead Retro Activity to find the strip "difficult to recommend" along with the limited art style. Mike Kaltschnee also mentioned the weakness of
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began gathering momentum, there wasn't just little to nothing like it on the web -- it appealed and spoke to a much larger percentage of the internet reading audience than mainstream society would support outside of that filter.... in the waning years of the 20th Century, it was a safe bet that if
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Illiad based the character on a former boss, saying, "The Chief is based on my business mentor. He was the vice president that I reported to back in the day. The Chief, like my mentor, is tall (!) and thin and sports a bushy ring around a bald crown, plus a very thick moustache." The Chief bears a
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said that User Friendly "may be one of the earliest webcomics manifestation of the use of templates... renderings of the characters that are cut and pasted directly into the comic strip... I think the main significance of User Friendly is that in 1997 it was really, really crude in every respect.
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While published books still contain at least one cartoon with a punchline taken from MetaFilter, Frazer has removed these cartoons from the website, or updated them to quote and credit the source of the punchlines, and fans searched through the archives to ensure that none of the other punchlines
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Greg is in charge of Technical Support in the strip. In other words, he's the guy that customers whine to when something goes wrong, which drives him nuts. He blows off steam by playing visceral games and doing bad things to the salespeople. He's not a bad sort, but his grip on his sanity hovers
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is set inside a fictional ISP, Columbia Internet. According to reviewer Eric Burns, the strip is set in a world where "sers were dumbasses who asked about cupholders that slid out of their computers, marketing executives were perverse and stupid and deserved humiliation, bosses were clueless and
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Writer Xavier Xerxes said that in the very early days of webcomics, Frazer was probably one of the bigger success stories and was one of the first to make a living from a webcomic. Eric Burns attributed initial success of the comic to the makeup of the early internet, saying, "In 1997, a
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Mike is the System Administrator of the strip and is responsible for the smooth running of the network at the office. He's bright but prone to fits of anxiety. His worst nightmare is being locked in a room with a sweaty Windows 95 programmer and no hacking weapons in sight. He loves hot
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are dating as of September 16, 2005, although she was previously frustrated by his inability to express himself and his love for her. This comes after years of missed opportunities and misunderstandings, such as when A.J. poured his feelings into an email and Miranda mistook it for the
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and draws humor from dealing with clueless users and geeky subjects. The comic ran seven days a week until 2009, when updates became sporadic, and since 2010 it had been in re-runs only. The webcomic was shut down in late February 2022, after an announcement from Frazer.
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In a 2001 interview, Frazer said that he was not handling fame well, and pretended not to be famous in order to keep his life normal. He said that his income came from sponsorship, advertising, and sales of printed collections. These compilations have been published by
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workers were somewhat shortsighted and misguided, but the last bastion of human reason... Every time we see Greg working, it's to deal with yet another annoying, self-important clueless user who hasn't gotten his brain around the digital world".
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events, the Dust Puppy looks similar to a ball of dust and lint, with eyes, feet and an occasional big toothy smile. He was briefly absent from the strip after accidentally being blown with compressed air while sleeping inside a dusty server.
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In a 2001 interview, Frazer estimated that about 40% of strip ideas came from reader submissions, and occasionally he would get submissions that he would use "unmodified". He also said that he educated himself on the operating system
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character. His personality is very different from the PHB, as well: he manages in the laissez-faire style, as opposed to the Marketing-based, micro-managing stance of the PHB. He has encouraged the office to standardise on
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and in the real world) wrongly assume that the character was named after the scripting language PERL. While this may be the true intention of the author, in the script timeline, is shown to be an error based on wordplay.
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A second hiatus lasted from December 1, 2009 until August 1, 2010, again for personal reasons. New cartoons, supplied by the community as part of a competition, started to appear as of August 2, 2010.
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guru. He suddenly began to speak with a fake Slavic accent as part of his program to "Become an Evil Genius." He has almost succeeded in taking over the planet several times. His sworn enemy is
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the art, but was impressed at Illiad maintaining publication of a strip every day. "Webcomics: The Influence and Continuation of the Comix Revolution" described how the strip represented the
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came from seeing it as general webcomic, rather than one targeted at a specific audience of old-school IT geeks, and he considered that the targeted approach was a good business model.
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produced a strip in 1999 just to criticise Frazer, saying "people will pass up steak once a week for crap every day." They also criticized the commercialism of the strip. By contrast,
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listed it as one of the most influential webcomics of all time in 2018. It has also been noted by FromDev, Brainz, RiskOptics, Tech2Drive DondeQ2, ReadDive and Pingdom.
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1999, the site appeared to be shut down permanently after a third party sued. In future years, the April 1st cartoon referenced back to the disruption that was caused.
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In the strip as of September 16, 2005, he and Miranda (another character) are dating. They also have previously dated, but split up over a misunderstanding.
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sysadmin, and very, very female. Her technical abilities unnerve the other techs, but her obvious physical charms compel them to stare at her, except for
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On 24 February 2022, Illiad announced that the website would be shut down soon, "at the end of this month. If not, it won't be much later than that."
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included other features such as Link of the Day and Iambe Intimate & Interactive, a weekly editorial written under the pseudonym "Iambe".
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J. D. Frazer was born in 1969. He began his career in law enforcement and served as a corrections officer, hoping eventually to join the
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Dust Puppy is liked by most of the other characters, with the exceptions of Stef and the Dust Puppy's evil nemesis, the Crud Puppy.
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The strip went on hiatus from June 1, 2009 to August 2009 for personal reasons. In this period, previous strips were re-posted.
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After the de facto stop of publishing new content, three one-off comics commemoration special occasions were published:
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and attempts to avoid them. He was released from the company on two separate occasions but returned shortly thereafter.
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that he hacked in his own favor. Unlike Pitr, he has no ambitions for world domination per se, but he is a friend of
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A.J., Illiad's alter ego, represents "the creative guy" in the strip, maintaining and designing websites. As a
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in 1997. According to Frazer, he started cartooning at age 12. He had tried to get into cartooning through
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with flying colours, and has a dry sense of humour. He is an expert on any subject that is covered on the
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smoker, as contrasted with the rest of the technological staff, who prefer caffeine (Greg in the form of
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Sid is the oldest of the geeks and very knowledgeable. His advanced age gives him the upper hand against
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Money for content and your clicks for free : turning web sites, blogs, and podcasts into cash
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tell through UF, over time". Since then, previous strips have been re-posted on a daily basis.
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At approximately midnight PST on the evening of 28 February 2022, the website was shut down.
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The Chief is Columbia Internet's CEO. He is the leader of the techies and salespeople.
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was always drawn for immediate release and did not relate to the regular storyline.
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Mythos characters). He was hired in September 2000 and he had formerly worked for
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Although the Dust Puppy is very innocent and unworldly, he plays a superb game of
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a 1000-page hardback collection of every script with some comments by the author.
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community. After one poster found a comment on MetaFilter that was similar to a
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Pitr is the administrator of the Columbia Internet server and a self-proclaimed
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Erwin first appeared in the January 25, 1998 strip. Erwin is a highly advanced
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created overnight during experimentation in artificial intelligence by the
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Social Pressure Can Solve The 'Copying' Problem Even Without Copyright
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explain the fiction more clearly and provide non-fictional perspective
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by removing items or incorporating them into the text of the article.
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Writer T Campbell declared JD Frazer's work as "ow a heavy debt to
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someone had an internet connection in the first place, they'd find
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fame. However, Illiad says that The Chief was not inspired by the
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In 2009, Frazer was found to be copying punchlines found in the
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somewhere between weak and non-existent, and he once worked for
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into Pitr-Cola and making Columbia Internet millions with a
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Miranda is a trained systems technologist, an experienced
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User Friendly Animation - Episode 1 at The Flash Museum
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Zabel, Joseph ‘Joe’; et al. (September 30, 2005).
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concluded the comic had aged poorly in a 2023 rundown.
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describes a work or element of fiction in a primarily
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written by J. D. Frazer, also known by his pen name
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Erwin passes the 2308:"How Penny Arcade Connects with Gamers Worldwide" 1791:"[Illiad] BEYOND THE PALE AND AN APOLOGY" 1557: 1555: 1553: 2082:Holkins, Jerry; Mike, Krahulik (April 7, 1999). 3374:"Remembrance Day Story Arc & Other Matters" 1664:"UF Cartoon Archive - Character Gallery - Mike" 4103:Canadian Comic Book Creator Awards Association 2796:"Even Grues Get Full - tech humor book review" 2058:"The Best Entertaining Online Web Tech Comics" 1224: 3515: 8: 2166:"The most influential webcomics of all time" 1701:http://www.userfriendly.org/community/iambe/ 1699:Iambe Intimate & Interactive site page, 1405:User Friendly – Die Deutsche Dialekt-Ausgabe 1225:April Fools' Day prank and other appearances 639:, but was later given such residences as an 4414:Comics involved in plagiarism controversies 1096:has received mixed reviews over the years. 3891: 3564: 3522: 3508: 3500: 2457:"User Friendly - A cartoon book for geeks" 980:in order to make informed jokes about it. 85: 19:This article is about the webcomic titled 2509:"A Review of Evil Geniuses In A Nutshell" 2321:SolarWinds Worldwide (January 16, 2009). 1976:SolarWinds Worldwide (January 16, 2009). 413:Learn how and when to remove this message 362:"User Friendly" web comic characters 311:Learn how and when to remove this message 72:Learn how and when to remove this message 4336:Canadian Society for the Study of Comics 2538:Moellenberndt, Christine (May 6, 2022). 2219:"20 Funny Web Comics You'd Love To Read" 2136:Dolcourt, Jessica (September 10, 2007). 2028:Dolcourt, Jessica (September 10, 2007). 1465:manager, writer, creative director, and 624:Originally, Erwin occupied the classic " 2821: 2347:Trinos, Angelo Delos (August 8, 2023). 1485: 1279:based on the series was also produced. 951:, as demonstrated on January 14, 2005. 578:Crud Puppy (Lord Ignatius Crud) is the 3485:(User Friendly users and fans Website) 3277:(January 14, 2005), "Strip Comments", 2852:(October 17, 2002), "Strip Comments", 2644:Gasperson, Tina (September 21, 2000). 2507:Puryear, Dustin (September 25, 2000). 1045:Hiatuses, ending, reruns, and shutdown 349:Please improve this section by adding 2349:"10 Great Webcomics That Aged Poorly" 2164:Jensen, K. Thor (November 27, 2018). 1912: 1910: 1738: 1736: 1657: 1655: 1219:Infinite Canvas: The Art of Webcomics 766:. Miranda finds Dust Puppy adorable. 678:, which meant that Erwin talked like 116: 23:. For the term used generically, see 7: 4183:Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo 2746:Frazer, J. D. (September 28, 2006). 2401:Glassborow, Francis (October 2003). 1638:. Plan Nine Publishing. p. 67. 1595: 1593: 1591: 1589: 1519: 1517: 1515: 1125:"a strip in the wry, verbal vein of 56:Please help consolidate the article. 4331:Association of Canadian Cartoonists 2872:(July 18, 2006), "Strip Comments", 2769:Brown, Janelle (October 27, 1999). 2573:. September 5, 2007. Archived from 2265:Zainab, Afzal (December 22, 2023). 1817:"Biggie Panda: Old Skool Webcomics" 1712:Brown, Janelle (October 27, 1999). 1562:Coleman, Chris (February 9, 2001). 1496:. February 26, 2022. Archived from 1163:by Liza Schmalcel and Bruce Evans. 814:text editor. He briefly worked for 570:First appearance December 3, 1997. 256:The strip had a running storyline. 2306:Scott, Andery (January 14, 2024). 827: 778:email worm and deleted it unread. 755: 14: 1874:Lucas, Josh (September 1, 1999). 1247: 770: 742:straight out of a styrofoam cup. 709:), as a punishment for insulting 4353:Comic Legends Legal Defense Fund 4199:List of Canadian comics creators 4120:Canadian Cartoonist Hall of Fame 3538: 3530: 2672:Smith, JT (September 18, 2000). 2377:"The Root of All Evil: A Review" 2056:Francis, Carol (June 17, 2013). 791: 429: 327: 268: 94: 38: 4158:Paradise Comics Toronto Comicon 2915:"Dust Puppy's first appearance" 2192:Dubey, Sarikaz (May 14, 2014). 1815:Xerxes, Xaviar (January 2007). 1524:P. 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(2002). 2194:"Awesome Geek Comics Websites" 1294:, Plan Nine Publishing, 2002, 1213:was part of an exhibit at The 29:User Friendly (disambiguation) 1: 1683:"UserFriendly Strip Comments" 1494:"UserFriendly Strip Comments" 1443:Royal Canadian Mounted Police 1422:Ten Years of UserFriendly.Org 1204:open-source software movement 351:secondary or tertiary sources 1948:Worthy (November 22, 2022). 1902:"HEADS UP: We're Going Dark" 1789:Illiad (February 23, 2009). 592:Artificial Intelligence (AI) 277:This comics-related article 4168:Toronto Comic Arts Festival 3491:User Friendly comic archive 2381:Washington Apple Pi Journal 2138:"Sidesplitting tech comics" 2108:dragoon (August 20, 2000). 2030:"Sidesplitting tech comics" 1526:"20 of the Best Web Comics" 1345:Evil Geniuses in a Nutshell 166:November 21, 2010 151:November 17, 1997 4440: 2430:"Entry 9: 'User Friendly'" 1564:"An Interview With Illiad" 1337:November 13, 2005, at the 1137:by Jeffrey T. Darlington, 1133:by Christopher B. 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