Tuesday, October 28, 2008Number Crunching Looking at my Google Analytics report, yesterday 8 people saw the Stuck in an Elevator index page. Of those, 4 went on to the first two pages. One dropped out and the remaining 3 finished the whole thing. That's actually better than I expected. Thanks!
PS: Yes I see all! Labels: 24hourcomics, comics:webcomics, stuckinanelevator link : 10:44 AM
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Monday, October 27, 2008Livin' It Up Here is a link to the 24 Hour Comic I made two weekends ago. I hope you like it!
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Saturday, October 11, 2008Delivery! I got a package in the mail today:
  Ka-Blam.com did a great job printing issue 3. I'm going to have them print issues 1 and 2 and sell all of them via print-on-demand on their sister site Indyplanet.com. Labels: comics:webcomics, Keeley link : 7:43 PM
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Monday, June 2, 2008Come On, Come Out Just for you here are two, possibly three, new pages of Keeley: Comic Hero Extraordinaire! I had page 14 up a few months ago but didn't publicize it because it's only a one page transitory scene. The following two pages up the challenge to my drawing skills a bit with a busy outdoor scene and five new characters. You can conveniently start issue 3 from the top here.
 Enjoy! Labels: comics:webcomics, Keeley link : 4:02 PM
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Saturday, January 26, 2008 Pages 12 and 13 of Keeley:Comic Hero Extraordinaire #3 is up on the interwebs! The plot thickens, and Keeley follows up on something she heard many pages ago!
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Wednesday, December 26, 2007Some Progress in My Big Project Not that one, silly, I mean Keeley: Comic Hero Extraordinaire issue 3! The next four pages, 8-11, have been posted. Two more to follow shortly. Thanks for all of the feedback and encouragement I've been getting. Enjoy!
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Saturday, November 10, 2007There Will Be a Test Afterward I have finished making annotations for Selective Pressure. You can either start on page (and hour) one from the thumbnails page, or "turn on" annotations from each individual comic page.
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Saturday, October 27, 2007Wanna See Something Cool? I've always wanted to add annotations to my comics online. I'm generally a big fan of behind-the-scenes stuff. We're all familiar with the DVD commentary, which is sometimes really good (for example, Guillermo del Toro movies) or crushingly bad (like Empire Strikes Back). Valve, makers of Half-Life, has been putting developer commentary in their games. The little nodes play an audio track about how they chose the color scheme, or how they got the player to look up at a cool scripted event, stuff like that. It's kind of fun to run through a level looking for the next spinning speech balloon.
A lot of comic trade paperbacks now have extra material as well, mostly from the DC side of things. I picked up three volumes of DC's 52. After each weekly edition, they have a few pages of commentary and concept art. Very cool! I didn't want to add notes to my comics before because it's a fine line between making myself sound like a pompous ass ("I'm so clever lol!") and too self deprecating ("I hate this panel *sniff*"). But, part of 24 hour comics is that the act of making them is an integral part of their being. Just looking at them on the web is missing out on this important context. It just looks like a comic that has worse and worse art over time (like Infinite Crisis. Oh! *zing*). So instead of writing a long blog post about what happened on 24 hour comics day, I'll sprinkle little notes through Selective Pressure which talk about the comic and the wacky day that made it. I have a working version of the first page with notes done, you can get a sneak peek at it here. There's no other way to get to it right now because it's still in testing. Just wave the mouse over the notes that look like this:  and hopefully some text will magically appear! Labels: comics:webcomics, selective pressure link : 9:35 PM
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Friday, October 26, 2007Behold! My 24 Hour Comic, Selective Pressure!
 {Click to get started!} Labels: comics:webcomics, midmococo, selective pressure link : 4:07 PM
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Wednesday, December 27, 2006ComicSpace is Awesome Since I have two complete issues of Keeley: CHE done I have been spending a lot of time working on publicity so people will actually read the darn thing. Recently, a cool site called ComicSpace popped up which is kind of a Myspace for people who read or make comics. The person who made the site also made OnlineComics.net, which I've found to be where most of my readers came from so I signed up for ComicSpace almost as soon as it opened. It's become popular, with over 8,000 people signed up. The atmosphere is very friendly and it has put me in touch with a lot of interesting people, from other comic creators in Columbia to makers of comics I like a lot, such as 12 Reasons Why I Love Her by Jamie S. Rich and X-Men: First Class by Jeff Parker.
ComicSpace uses the ad service Project Wonderful. Advertisers bid for blocks of ad space located on various websites. If their bid is the highest, their ad gets shown in the block and the advertiser if charged. If the bid is losing, no money is exchanged. I stuck my own ad for this site up on some ad blocks at ComicSpace. According to Google Analytics, that accounts for around 10% of my visitors. Not too shabby for a few dollars a day when my ad is running. The coolest thing that has happened is that I got fan mail from someone who saw my site via my Project Wonderful ad. And this time it's not from my mom: it's Dean Trippe, a cartoonist with his own webcomic, and a blog. His comic, Butterfly, is about a sidekick that works for a Robin-esque character who of course is himself a sidekick to a Batman-ish character. It's very funny and the art style is very retro and simple, like Darwyn Cookes'. He thought my comic was so cool that he mentioned it on his blog! My pageviews shot up that week up to 900 one day. That's crazy! My advertising efforts are dying down as I prepare for Issue 3. The first fourteen pages are absolutely set and I like it a lot. The last six pages are still in flux, but I think I at least nailed down the general plot and what happens each page. Maybe the alternate versions of the script will turn up on DeviantART. When the comic starts I think I'll still go page-by-page, but I'll skip all of the rough stuff and post full color pages. Readers seem to like that the best for some odd reason.... Labels: blogging, comics:webcomics, Keeley link : 1:11 AM
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