The New Setup

Oh boy oh boy, look at my new website setup! OK, it doesn’t look radically different from the old setup (which itself was pretty recent), but I’ve finally jumped on the “latest-comic-on-top, blog-on-bottom” bandwagon. I may actually post stuff to the blog now that it won’t push my comics down out of sight! All the comics are back up except the hourlies – I’ll get to them eventually. Other than that I have maybe a few minor style tweaks to fiddle with when I feel like it, and I’d like to spruce up the sidebar a bit, but I’m basically considering the renovation successfully completed. Yay!

I had been partway through converting my site to use Comicpress (got distracted by anthology production, touring, etc.), then the other day after recommending Daniel Merlin Goodbrey to someone, I went to look at his site. I was surprised to see he was using Comicpress, and thought he’d done a really nice job with it, until I saw his blog post that said he was actually using Webcomic (and it turns out he hadn’t customized the default theme all that much). I checked it out, it seemed a little easier to use & better suited to my needs, and here we are! I like it so far.

Notes on navigation: besides the obvious navigation links, you can click the comic to go forward (unless it’s the last one), and you can also navigate the comic with your arrow keys. How cool is that? Navigation works within each comic; to see other comics, go to the “Comics” page and click away! (One-off strips are pooled together).

Okay, boring website talk is over now! You can look forward to more comics, and a higher volume of blog posts – talk about value!

Under Renovation

Hi all, please excuse any excess wonkiness while I reconfigure my website to increase its fabulosity.

EDIT: The new setup required me to move my comic images around, so the main thing left to do (besides stray tweaks) is re-associate those files with their posts (and create posts for some of the older ones that used pages). This is fairly tedious, but I hope to finish by week’s end.

The Mother’s Day the Earth Stood Still

Here’s the card I made for my mom:

Despite the various usual flaws, I’m really happy with how the cover came out – something in the composition or the use of blacks or something just makes it feel “right” to me.

Inside the card:

Square Dance #4 preorder

Super Friendly Garlic 1Square Dance #4…

Contains Spinning World strips for the months of November through February, “Super Friendly Garlic”, “Winter In Headville”, and more! Features a classic winter cover, just in time for spring.

Ships late April.