You can try and please everyone but it would probably end up as a spineless exercise in buffoonery. Here is my site with illustration work directed primarily at a Christian audience.

http://www.epiloguetv.co.uk

I am quite proud of it.

So I read a lot of blog posts using my RSS feed thing¹ several times a day. A few of these are illustration/comics related review and artist sites which might occasionally stand out as something worth pursuing.² I just had to post this because it is so vital. I skim through several lukewarm posts about This Guy and That Historical Person and it is a waste of time.

And then I get to Kevin Cannon.

His style is simply fabulous. Strong confident lines and a sense of humour. I don't really even know what the post is about but it doesn't matter. The style is good enough on it's own. Enjoy the screengrab.

¹Byline iOS app channelling Google RSS. I blogged about it before. Check the tags. ²Although weirdly I am embarrassedly turned off by most comics that I see online. Is this a healthy thing for someone who purports to be a comics artist? Is this right? I just don't like most stuff I see. Scott McCloud did this 'How I draw balloons' video the other day and TBH it was interesting to see how someone has penetrated the confusing dehumanising mess that is Adobe VectorKingdom™ but the ACTUAL artwork? Boooooorrrrrrriiiiiiiiinnnnnnggg.³ Warren Peace Sings the Blues is one of the best comics review sites because he seems to explore more interesting experimental material with a proper visual flair. Sigh. Maybe that's it. Experimental Is the only thing that regularly gets me innneressted...? ³Heresy I know - but hey: he says stuff confidently that hasn't a clue about too. A footnote within a footnote. Inception.

Costing £3.99 for a year has made me pause at 'purchase' button. Here is my iTunes review:

"Well done for a good/great piece of work.

Clearly you guys have expended serious energy to make something that works well on iphone. It looks fab on retina.

Main gripes - commenting (okay it is coming, fine), non-selectable text - perhaps this is a design intention (and if so, okay then) but when I link to stuff I usually like to grab a quote. Grabbing a screenshot is not always my preferred method!

Subscription amount: I am probably going to stump up a year but find myself holding back. Why? I know it is a good price (I would certainly have paid that amount in a short run on paper purchasing) but because I am so used to not paying at all it is hard to break the habit. The extra value of reading on a retina screen is very appealing. I think maybe my main reason for not immediately jumping is because when I attribute value to an app/media item I inevitably want my moneys worth, and the main problem with the Guardian is that I don't always like the sneery ideological tone it occasionally carries. I can feel as wound-up as I do with the Daily Mail in bizarrely similar way! If I was drawn closer (by subscribing) I would feel a little uneasy about being a bedfellow. That says more about me than you, but there you go, feedback is feedback.

I am, however, a long term fan of a bunch of stuff you produce - Bobbie Johnson's stuff is sorely missed, the whole Media Talk team is tremendous (just mis-typed that on iphone and it autosuggested 'treasonous'). Rusbridger is always worth listening to.

I nearly said something saucy about Gibson but I self-regulated it.

I will probably go and buy it now, but my gut feeling is that at £2.99 it probably fits with me better for a year - mainly because of my relationship with the product."

Postscript:
I thought to myself whether I would go for a similar app by the Times. The answer, bizarrely, is yes. For some reason I always enjoy the tone and there are a number of people who I like a lot - Aaronovitch, Moran, Brookes and Morland¹. Although I feel suspicious of the NIMurdoch institutional shadow, this paper somehow doesn't feel like it suckles off of that particular teat. Agreed, I am a confused person.

¹Mort Morland and Peter Brookes are in my mind at the top of their game cartoonistically (is that a word?). Since the paywall came up I have missed them sorely.