 "Get Your War On meets Boston Dirt Dogs meets Sons of Sam Horn" | |
Type of site | Webcomic/Blog |
|---|---|
| Owner | Hart Brachen (h.b.) |
| Created by | Hart Brachen (h.b.) |
| URL | http://www.soxaholix.com |
| Registration | No |
| Launched | March 30, 2004 |
| Current status | Concluded, as of December 18, 2016 |
The Soxaholix is a comic-based blog published by pseudonymous Hart Brachen (similar to heartbroken) for Boston Red Sox fans to discuss the team and other sports-related news. Occasionally during the television season the blog also discusses the television drama Lost. The site began just prior to the 2004 baseball season. The author references many different sources of classic literature, modern literature, television shows, popular culture, and internet culture through the characters' dialogue. The setting for the comic revolves around a group of office co-workers in Boston and each daily strip focuses on the conversation of two of the characters in a back-and-forth manner similar to the comic Get your war on.
Readership averaged 1,600 visitors per day in 2005 with sometimes as many as 12,000 readers in a single day.[1] The site has been recognized by a number of prominent online award committees and sports websites for incisive wit and mix of high-brow as well as low-brow humor, including a 2005 article in The Wall Street Journal. It was also mentioned in the March 2, 2007 All Things Considered story concerning baseball fandom on NPR.[2]
- ^ Fatsis, Stefan (2005-10-11). "It's Not Ovah, Though It's Ovah". The Wall Street Journal. pp. D8. Retrieved 2006-09-29.
- ^ "All Things Considered". National Public Radio. 2007-03-02. Retrieved 2007-03-05.