A Webcomic for Women
January 8th, 2012 – By Eric
According to some of our female readers, comics in the past have left them feeling…alienated. This was never our intention, and so after a weeks worth of research we have concocted the ultimate in feminine webcomicry. Guys, this comic is strong enough for a man, but MADE for a woman. Seriously though, ladies, I hope you’re happy. You’ve got your Levar Burton Strawberry Unicow, Cats, Yoga, and awkward man kisses. We do this not for the best friend-saliva, but for the lady love. Totally not gay.
HATEFARM is one year old as of a few days ago! To celebrate…well, not much. The friends page is up with some links and more on the way. There is a Mistress Missy wallpaper up on the extras page. I’m hoping to get the archive page up and running within the month along with some other bells and whistles, like an inkoutbreak banner.
We have to make some decisions about our advertising situation in the near future. Project Wonderful has turned us down because we are too awesome adult oriented. That’s cool and all, it’s their service, and if they want to support comics that are pretty much constant porn and not us, that’s on them. But that leaves one other easy and reliable source of advertising — Google Adsense, and I feel like they’re going to turn us down as we currently are. This leaves us with some options:
- Go back and censor a few comics so that Adsense will give us the OK. The uncensored versions of said comics might have to be available through some back door access or maybe like an eventual book sale. I’m not too keen on the idea of censoring.
- Keep things the way they are, offer advertising on the site to those who are interested…however so far there has been zero interest. *UPDATE* Actually, after posting my rant there has been some interest! Thanks to Iamarg and everyone else who emailed me about advertising…you make the internet significantly less shitty. Show HATEFARM and our friends support by clicking on the ads and checking our their goods!
- Submit HATEFARM to Adsense as is and slip them a $20 for their troubles.
- Keep paying for site out of pocket, suck it up and stop fucking whining.
- Try to more actively partner with other like minded sites and comics that are not afraid to be awesome.
- Become women.
- Turn HATEFARM into a porn site.
- Go look at other porn.
- Make lists.
If you have any suggestions, I guess you can make them below, but I think we’d all just rather have a discussion about the Levar Burton Strawberry Unicow instead.
If you’re interested in advertising on our site, drop me an email. We get anywhere from 1100-1400 hits a day, and up to 5000 a day when we advertise ourselves. It’ll be around $15 for 2 weeks on the top banner or $10 for 2 weeks on the bottom banner…maybe more or less depending on how awesome your ad is or how long you want to advertise.
-E
57 Comments
Could do what many webcomics do for donations and provide a monthly desktop background only available to donators.
Awesome…this is the goods right here. Will take into consideration, thanks!
Not a problem! Another commonly used tactic I see is once enough comics are up, selling printed versions, though I’m not sure how feasible that one is since it takes money to make money in that regard.
As awful as the last panel is, I checked it twice. I’m feeling a little embarrased and gay right now
At least you didn’t have to draw it.
I want to be a HateFarmer when I grow up!
Hey hit me up whenever that Mistress Missy stock is ready for harvest.
Okay but you have to clean all the dirt off this time.
UNICOW!
i’m totally satisfied.
also: what the hell! fuck PW!
(i do however love oglaf…)
Agreed, Oglaf is the tits.
I’m far from an expert on advertising, so I cannot offer any actual advice, but… I *can* offer Trite, Unhelpful Adoration! It really sucks that you’ve been turned down by PW; I do hope you find a (lucrative|amazing|underhanded-and-brilliant) solution to your problem, soon. You’re one of the best new(ish) comics I’ve seen around the Web, and that deserves praise/money. Of course, failing all that, you could always just charge to let the denizens of the ‘net watch those lovely ladies practice kissing.
Vox Populi, you are amazing, I could kiss you. Especially if you are man dressed in drag.
Oh, you scoundrel! That’s only on Fridays, at the Blue Oyster. I’ll be the one with a trenchcoat, and a rose in my ear.
From how I’ve seen on Oglaf, the Project Wonderful ads are only on the non-sexy comics. There’s just a picture of something random on the sexy ones.
I think their problem is not that your comic is ‘adult-oriented’, it’s that their method of payment is PayPal, which hates smutty things entirely. Maybe if they had a more smut-friendly payment method, like CCBill or AlertPay, you guys would be accepted no problem. I’m pretty sure the guy who started Project Wonderful id the guy who does Dinosaur Comics and he doesn’t seem like he would give two shits about smut.
C’est la vie.
You have a very good point. PW told me that their sites with adult content were “grandfathered in”, or rather, they joined PW before they implemented the policy that says they don’t accept adult oriented sites.
I was bitter for a while because they weren’t responding my inquiries, but they finally did and were respectful about it so I’m cool.
So, uh… where’s the skyscraper Mistress Missy ProjectWonderful ad on “Menage a 3″ coming from? *wonders*
Also – I think you might have overdone it with wooing the female readers, if only a little…
Uhhh… you were talking of the reverse case, i.e. PW ads on this here site, right? *slaps self with a big trout*
Yeah…PW has no problem accepting my money to advertise on OTHER sites. And yes– we hope to overdo everything it is we do.
Ha! I doubt women complained, but hey, there’s a lot of idiots out there, so, if they did, sorry for the inconvenience to you all. Those women need to get a sense of humor, ’cause I know I definitely enjoy your comics.
.. Maybe I’m just weird, ’cause I don’t do half the things in these comics. Yoga? No. Practice kissing? Hell no. I am guilty of having cats and male best friends, though, but, to be fair, I never said I love my female friends. LOL.
Anywho, grats on Hatefarm’s anniversary! <3
(Yes, I'm useless, I have no suggestions.)
Haha. I think that was pretty much the point: that our expectations of what women are into are so incredibly far off that this comic actually ends up offending those finicky women more than it does any good.
Thanks for being one of the cool ones!
Ha! No offense taken here, just amusement. c: … I can’t stop staring at that last panel, seriously, it’s just too funny. <3
Anywho, thanks!
Thanks to you all for keeping the amazing comics coming.~ Being an artist, myself, I know it's not easy. Very time consuming.
I was laughing at “Shit girls say!”, but then that FACE. I want a poster of it. Although it requires money to make the poster, I’m sure it would go fast.
As a female reader, you’re apology has been accepted x10.
If you really want a poster of this, I’ll make you one for free, because I think that’s fucking hilarious (and kind of sad) that you want one.
<:'D
…..It took me a second viewing of this page to realise that the two women were you and Rob in drag. I was wondering why you were talking about awkward man kisses.
And since this is my first comment on this site, I would like to say that this comic is awesome! The jokes are hilarious and the art is super-extra-fantabulicious.
Also, if I had discovered this comic early enough, I totally would have voted for P-Rex.
Thanks Andrea on all accounts! P-Rex only lost by one or two votes…damnit…
P-REX DESERVED TO LOSE!
Guys as a owner of a working, attached and nerdy vagina I am disapoint. I come to this comic looking for dick jokes and depravity. What do I get?! Overly well drawn Yaoi. Tsk, tsk, tsk. Hope there are nothing but bondage tit monsters in the next comic.
xoxoxo
Unicornbabykittenbreathe
Depravity is on the horizon, don’t you worry. Also thanks for teaching me about Yaoi. Now I know not to do it again.
I was under the impression that ya-oi was just an enthusiastic, more positive variation of the standard “oi” popularized and overused by punk bands/Guy Ritchie movies.
Okay, the last panel made me want throw up a little bit. Great job!
And how can ladies feel alienated? Do they not get Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle jokes!?
Some ladies are threatened by awesome, it seems. That’s okay, I’m threatened by vaginas.
HEY ERIC!… You made a typo, bro.
WHAT!?
LIES
This is amazing. Also, the LeVar Burton Strawberry Unicow is priceless.
Yeah he probably needs his own comic.
Well, the adds for ther pornsites have NSFW on them, and a run-off site that directs the people under 18 to another cleaner comic. PErhaps you should have a shitty comic that’s like Sweet Bro and HElla JEff for the wee tots and have it tie in with this?
I mean, like, You’ve probably already tried, but I belive this is cleaner than onre of the runoff cartoons I’ve been sent to (IE ther was one about lesbians hitting eachother with giant dildos)
I don’t know if we’re prepared to make hatefarm any more shitty, good suggestion though
That’s an awesome user name. XD
I find it… Mostly hilarious that Oglaf is clear for project wonderful based on adult-content but HateFarm isn’t.
And by “Mostly hilarious” I mean “Mind bogglingly unpossible”
Like some of these other people, I can’t really offer much in the way of suggestions. I want to express the following, though: this is a seriously excellent comic. I like to think you’ll garner the fandom you deserve in a fairly short time. In case it matters, I discovered your work through your ad on MS Paint Adventures! ya-hooo
But yeah, in all seriousness, this is some wonderful stuff. Though I read a hell of a lot of webcomics, this is quickly becoming one of my new favorites. Keep up the awesome work!
Thanks Jearb. <3
i just saw you guys on a project wonderful ad at SMBC, guess it’s working out after all! congrats! Good webcomic, I don’t see where it’s leaving female readers behind at all (or why that even matters) so don’t worry about that.
Its no problem for us to advertise on other sites, having other peoples advertisements on our sites is the issue. We have it covered for now though.
Feeling alienated and offended doesn’t mean I don’t have a sense of humor.
Good luck making any money without the support of women who don’t think degradation is funny.
I’m done reading your comic.
Y U MAD THO?
I think this one went downhill after the pink cow.
If I had a boner, THIS would have killed it.
This gave me a inverted boner. Thank you.
(O.O) …. (-.- ) …. (*O_O) … so true witht he 3rd and 4th panels… and as far as the final panel goes… I believe there’s a saying that sounds something like “There ain’t no kill like overkill”… Nobody is gonna wanna talk about that scene outside of this comment thread. I can’t begin to imagine how awkward trying to draw your faces up like that musta been, lol!
That last panel is the sexiest thing I’ve ever seen in my life.
We’re always glad to be of service. Sexy service.
This woman found it fucking hilarious
Bueno face in panel 5.
Lol! I noticed you guys burying all the Hatefarm characters in the first panel. Why is that? :3
No, they are ideas being harvested! We only bury evidence.
Evidence? Like in getting away with murder? That’s genius. :3 BTW: I look forward seeing a comic about Rave Knight anytime soon.
I can neither confirm nor deny that. Rave Knight might get his day, only time will tell.