Over the weekend I put up the first Banner ad for this site and used Project Wonderful to get it displayed on a heap of cool sites. If you’re following the link to here, welcome! I hope you enjoy your stay. Feel free to check out the story archives and indulge in the gang’s antics!

I spent a long time trying to come up with a look for the ad, but could never be satisfied with it. I was trying to fit a logo, some character heads and a snappy tagline to entice people to read. For the life of me I couldn’t compress what the comic is about into a few clever words. “Wacky Funsters” is too generic. ” Silly adventures of two lovable super heroes” is too long. “Imagine if Roger Ramjet was written by the people who did Carry On movies” is far too obscure.

And then I thought – instead of trying to explain what the comic is, why not just show it?

I drew up a modified version of the sketch I did in the blog post below, sized it so it would fit in a skyscraper style ad and put it up – it’s clean, it’s simple and it instantly gives readers a chance to check out the comic without leaving the site they’re on.

What do you think? Are there any other types of advertising tricks I can try out?

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