More Comixpedia Magazine Articles

Two more additions to the February issue of Comixpedia: one is another installment of Kelly J. Cooper’s new column The Webcomics Reader. We had a good discussion with the first installment of this column – I suspect we’ll have another good one after this edition as well.

Second, is a nostalgic look by me at Comixpedia on its third year anniversary. It’s actually a pretty idiosyncratic walk through bits and pieces of our history and our archives. It’s not entirely what I started out to write (a really comprehensive history of Comixpedia starts to bleed into a history of webcomics for the last three years and that’s hard to fit into a single article), but I think it’s an entertaining read. Certainly if you’re new to Comixpedia (or even just weren’t there at the beginning) it should be an interesting overview and a pointer to some good stuff in our archives. Continue Reading

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Post President’s Day News Update

We should have a couple more articles for the magazine posted tonight. Comixpedia is important to me, but I take my President’s Day holiday weekend seriously…

Phil Kahn has an interesting breakdown of an unconventional “panel” layout in a recent Gossamer Commons.

Fleen takes a look at Penny Arcade’s latest print venture, Attack of the Bacon Robots and focuses on the Afterword in which Tycho writes about “webcomics” and from the excerpt, it sounds very much like what Tycho has previously written online. Which is neither here nor there really. Maybe next Fleen will get around to reviewing the, ya know, actual cartoons in AOTBR…?
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Eyeskream 2ND Anniversary Big Contest!

This month Eyeskream is celebrating is second birthday. And to celebrate this event we’re holding a contest open to all the webcomics creators. By designing a little strip you could get the chance to win a fabulous Wacom tablet along many others prizes.

Entries will be judged by Eyeskream and Daku and Zampzon of “Digital Strips” and Bill Charbonneau, publisher of the “Zoinks! Continue Reading

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Calling All Website Gurus – Need Some Advice

Just looking for advice and opinions – Comixpedia runs on Postnuke right now. Some stuff about it bugs me, but all and all the site has stayed up way more then it’s fallen over. If any of you have played around with content management type stuff like Postnuke (or any Nuke – there are a lot of forks) or Drupal or Joomla or whatever – tell me what you think, plus and minuses and kind of important – how much evidence is there of their ability to hold up under high traffic.

I tried out Drupal this weekend to see what it can do (it powers The Onion so in some configuration it can handle A LOT of traffic) but Drupal + Dreamhost hosting seems slow and since it’s a clean, empty install that’s worrying. (That’s up at altertainment.net if you want to see what Drupal looks like). If I could get Drupal to work well on a shared hosting plan that might be what Comixpedia migrates to this year but it takes me a long time to decide on big changes like that. Continue Reading

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