IE Sucks and Webcomic News

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is a wonderful thing in theory, but it is amazing how hard it can be to use in practice.  Case in point – IE, instead of overlapping the cover image a bit over the righthand column, pushes it all the way down the page leaving a ton of white space.  Bad IE!  Anyhow I’ve put in an ugly fix this morning that will work on IE if you have 1024×768 settings on your monitor or above (smaller setting still get the white space).  Firefox seems to behave though.   Hopefully I can resolve this over the weekend…

Also I put up here the first two articles from the March issue: an interview with Jeph Jacques and a new Welton Colbert webcomic.

Now onto the webcomic news!

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is a wonderful thing in theory, but it is amazing how hard it can be to use in practice.  Case in point – IE, instead of overlapping the cover image a bit over the righthand column, pushes it all the way down the page leaving a ton of white space.  Bad IE!  Anyhow I’ve put in an ugly fix this morning that will work on IE if you have 1024×768 settings on your monitor or above (smaller setting still get the white space).  Firefox seems to behave though.   Hopefully I can resolve this over the weekend…

Also I put up here the first two articles from the March issue: an interview with Jeph Jacques and a new Welton Colbert webcomic.

Now onto the webcomic news!

The Friends of Lulu have opened up nominations for their annual awards. Check out the categories and be sure to nominate worthy candidates from webcomics.

Dave Kellett will be talkin’ this upcomin’ Monday at the big-deal SXSW conference.  If you’re in Austin go check it out.

Peter Hayward is listing his "cool dudes of webcomics".  It’s a short list though.  Either Hayward is a stingy bastard or comics are not as cool as Comixpedia thought…

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Clickwheel Back With Version 2.0

T Campbell blogs about the reboot of Clickwheel which publishes comics in a format designed for display on the iPod. It appears that there is already quite a lot of material available for downloading.

From reading the site it sounds like anyone can get an account to publish their comics with Clickwheel, but artists must first send sample work to Clickwheel (see the FAQ for more details. Continue Reading