Stuff for making webcomics
If you are using wordpress for your blog or webcomic be sure to upgrade to the latest version or follow the steps in this post to protect yourself from an as yet undisclosed security issue with the earlier verion of WP. Continue Reading
One of my best tools for finding out new interesting webcomics stories is the blog-driven search engine, Technorati. Technorati has embraced the concept of “tags” which any webcomic (or webcomic-focused blog) can use to help others to find out about what it’s publishing.
What’s a “tag”?
Think of a tag as a simple category name. People can categorize their posts, photos, and links with any tag that makes sense…. The Technorati Tag pages is made up of blog posts. And those come from you! Anyone with a blog can contribute to Technorati Tag pages.
There are two points I want to make this morning. One, the next generation of webcomics automation software should include support for tags and for pinging sites such as Technorati with updates. Second if you plan to start tagging your work please use “webcomic” as the tags “comic” and “comics” sweeps in so much material (both comic-book and comic-ha ha) as to be useless. (Also tagging to “comixpedia” will certainly put you on my radar screen if that’s of interest).
For more info on how to tag your website read Technorati’s information page on tags. Continue Reading
It’s a bit of work to do a whole alphabet, but if you’d like to make your own font, BitFontMaker will let you design your own and download the file to use on your PC or Mac. Continue Reading
ClickWheel is the world’s first desktop application for downloading digital comics — or ‘podstrips’ — to the iPod photo. Central to Clickwheel’s design is an RSS feed that allows you to search, grab and display comics or toons that have been created for the iPod photo.
Available for download are webcomics from demian.5, Ted Dewan, Daniel Merlin Goodbrey, Colin White and more recentlycoming soon, T Campbell and Gisele Lagace. Continue Reading
Greg Stephens points out an interesting trick for reading webcomics accomplished with the “antipagination” extension for the Firefox browser.
If you’re running Firefox, you can load up this antipagination extension and see what I’m talking about. What it does is add an right-mouse-button option to make those “next” and “previous” links on websites- like those on webcomic sites- less click-intensive. Rather than clicking “next”, “next”, “next” and so on, you right-click, choose antipagination for, say, 16 iterations and the next 16 pages are loaded into your browser window all at once, on the same page, stacked vertically. Now, instead of clicking “next” 16 times, you just scroll down to see each page in turn. Pretty neat, huh?
Want to muck around with your webcomic website? Here’s a few sites that will let you crank out new ideas quickly. Cool Text will make buttons and logos on the fly for you. The Sloganizer will crank out random messages for you that you could use as a logo or a forum signature. Continue Reading
The Tarquin Engine – the long awaited Flash-based tool for the creation of zooming infinite canvas webcomics – has finally reached its public release stage.
Check out the engine’s official website here, then plonk down some cash and try out a copy for yourself. Continue Reading
Stuart Robertson has released his Comic Gallery Script to the public under a Creative Commons/GPL license. I’m not 100% positive, but I believe the PV Comics site runs on a version of this script.
Features include:
* Start with the first or last image in the directory
* Display navigation above or below images
* Back and Next links
* Back and Next arrows
* Direct links to each image
* Configurable number of links per line
* Customizable dividers between links
* Display the copyright owner
* Display a link to your Creative Commons License
There’s also a forum thread discussing a number of scripts at Blank Label Comics. Continue Reading
This looks interesting: Webcomic Reader is an app to read webcomics in. I haven’t used it yet, but from the screenshots it looks like it presents the webcomic as the creator has published it. Continue Reading
From a small online comics website start up to a fully functional pop-culture hub and webcomics host, Gutterflycomix now offers free, no ads webhosting, comic and creator promotion and a nurturing community in which to thrive.
In addition, you can read the first four episodes of the Gutterflycomix flagship webcomic, Green: Wicked Wicked Ways online. Episode five is scheduled to debut this summer. Continue Reading
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