A Brand New Site

May 31st, 2010 | by Tara
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So, what do you think of the new site? Pretty awesome, yes? Fancy background, dropdown menus, gravitars in the comments section, and more stuff to come. I’m still getting used to it all myself!

Since we had to update our extremely-out-of-date WordPress before we could get our lovely fresh coat of paint, we hired Phil Hofer, also known as Frumph, to help us with this daunting task. Phil, a ComicPress developer, is well known in the webcomic community for his friendly willingness to lend a hand to webcomickers struggling to fix their sites, and for helping dolts like me slowly begin to understand the mysteries of CSS. Shoving all our square-peg files into the round-hole of the new system was a much more complicated task than I even imagined, and I doff my hat respectfully to Phil for making it happen. I know the footer down at the bottom says this site was designed by me and “implemented” by Phil, but seriously, he had all the ideas and I just drew some stuff in Photoshop to fit his suggestions. If you need your website redesigned or are having problems with your WordPress/ComicPress, I heartily recommend hiring Phil.

And we will be continuing to tweak and fine-tune the site over the next few weeks, getting it all into shape. If you see any glitches or broken links as you peruse things, please let us know!

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TCAF 2010

May 10th, 2010 | by Tara
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Here’s what really amazes me about TCAF: the sheer number of really, really good independent comics on display. At any of the other shows I’ve been to in recent years (and I admit, I haven’t had opportunity to get to the likes of MoCCA or SPX), there’s been a mixed bag of indie and self-published comics on offer, and I tended to feel that even if I may not have been the most popular comic present, on a professional scale I could at least stand out as one of the better self-published comics on offer. But not at TCAF– at this show, everything is outstanding. The show is busy enough that I can hardly step away from my table to go to the washroom, much less wander around and shop, but if I were a fan who had come here with a plan to spend some money on comics, I don’t even know how I’d choose. I had only the briefest opportunity to see what was on display, before the show opened on the Sunday. Even factoring out the genres that don’t immediately appeal to my tastes, there were still so many things that looked interesting. TCAF has reaffirmed the thing I’ve been saying to non-comic readers for years– there is a comic out there for everyone, if you just take the time to look.
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Penguicon (better late than never!)

May 7th, 2010 | by Tara
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Penguicon dealers room
Penguicon Dealers Room

I’ve never been to Penguicon before, and given that it is advertised as Science Fiction and Open Source Software convention (comics not mentioned at all), I wasn’t sure what to expect. I chose to go to this show for two reasons: first, because the hosts of The Webcomic Beacon podcast (which I listen to regularly) praised it so highly last year, and second, because Dave Adams (of the webcomic Slightly Off Topic), in charge of Artists Alley, was keen on building a webcomics presence and encouraged us all on the Webcomics List Forums to go. And the third reason, I suppose, is that the show was only a four hour drive away. Since our road trips to the States typically involve 8-12 hrs of driving each way, that’s pretty reasonable.
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