Life Into Comics is a Clog: CLOG in Definition

What is a clog, by the usual definition.
clog means:

(1) a weight fastened to the leg of an animal to hinder motion
(2) anything that hinders or obstructs; hindrance
(3) a shoe, sandal, etc. with a thick, usually wooden, sole: light clogs are used in clog dancing.

Source: http://www.yourdictionary.com/

In this domain I will be using the word clog as a noun which will mean Comics bLOG thus CLOG which can also be used as a verb clogging, the process of making a comics blog. The story behind how I made up a new definition of the word clog is to simplify the statement comics blogging or blogging through comics into one word clogging, just like vlogging is to Video Blogging.

I first used this back in my 2008 post in my personal blog that I will soon be shifting the theme of my blog into a “clog”. Here is my first clog back in Dec 01, 2008:

What the heck is a clog?

I made up this term back at November 27, 2008 when I am reading Gery Alanguilan’s Crest Hut Butt Shop Comics at Webcomics which featured a daily short comic skit about his life and struggles. Most of his comics are humorous but was later shifted to a more sadder theme which I dare not to say. He stopped making his daily comics at around June 2007. Then it hit me, he is telling his life through comics, and sometimes a short comics is followed by a description and supporting information behind the strip. Thus, making me come up with a “what if”, what if this is another form of blogging which has not been fully aware of most of us. I tried looking for “comics blog” and “clog” on Google but the results have nothing to do with the unified meaning of “blog comics” I wanted to have. I am not saying I am the first “clogger”, there are a lot of artists out there who I think have done this already but just called it as “blogs”. If they derived VLOG which stands for Video Blog, then I think it is not a bad idea to have another word derived from it, which I would like to coin as CLOG or Comics blog, comics supported by a blog.

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