Thanks to our readers on our tenth anniversary!

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on April 1st, 2009

For without them, we would have abandoned this crazy enterprise long ago.

When we uploaded our first issue, ten years ago almost to the hour, we said that we’d continue uploading our goofy internet publication only as long as the numbers trended upward. We monitored our traffic (sometimes almost obsessively) and, by golly, the numbers went up and up.

Our readers are the best on the WWW. They gotta be to put up with our nattering.

We’ve always been thrilled to meet them in person. On the rare occasions that we’ve had the pleasure to have face-to-face contact with “fans” of the mag, it’s been very rewarding.

Very early on, we arranged a SHECKYmagazine.COMics Only Reunion in Las Vegas– three days in April of 2001 where we encouraged anyone who has ever been a comedian to come to Vegas and just… be. Just commune with one’s fellow comedians and hang and celebrate all that it is to be a professional hilariator. About 125 people showed up and each and every one of them (as near as we can tell) had a splendid time.

We like to think that hitting that bookmark and swimming around in our blogazine on a daily or near-daily basis is not unlike that three-day get-together. Since day one, our sub-title/motto has been “Dedicated to the glorification of standup comedy.” We hope to continue on with that mission. We’ll do it for as long as folks log on and read.

Thanks to you all.

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