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Page Five of Internet Safety Comic

This the 101st post and page five of the ongoing Internet safety comic. Yeah for us! Not a bad start.

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Comments on this post

  1. pete reilly said on June 4, 2007 at 10:58 am

    I love this.
    pete

  2. Jim Coe said on June 4, 2007 at 11:53 am

    I know you are going to turn these into a video, but the comics are really effective and focused. I hope you find a way to use them to spread the word, as well!

  3. Nell said on June 4, 2007 at 2:29 pm

    Definitely got my attention!

  4. Tom said on June 4, 2007 at 4:32 pm

    Glad you all like it. I’m not sure how I’m going to go about the movie. I’ve got chunks of “The Night of the Living Dead” I may mix in but I’ve got a pretty tight deadline so we’ll see how it goes. I figure I’ll include both so as to differentiate for those that don’t like movies. Might as well practice what I preach.

    Thanks for taking the time to comment. It means a lot to me.

    Tom

  5. Ben said on June 5, 2007 at 12:56 pm

    You should really put these together for a presentation for the k-12 online conference. I swear, each comic gets batter; to the poibnt where I want to start printing them out on archival paper and store them away with boards and plastic baggies with my old comics 🙂

  6. Tom said on June 6, 2007 at 11:12 am

    Now my wife will have someone to blame when I quit my job and become the first full time flickr comic creator!

    Thanks Ben. I’m having fun with it but I still worry how well it’ll convey the information to some . . .

  7. Sonja said on October 16, 2007 at 7:37 pm

    Terrific work!!!!