Stuff for making webcomics
Here’s an extremely handy website for artists who have always pondered what their artwork would look like to people who suffer from different forms of color blindness.
The Wickline Color Blindness Filter will show you what images (up to 100K) will look like to the color blind.
The differences can be quite dramatic. Continue Reading
Comic Alert! is a website that has set up RSS feeds for over 6,000 comics published online. It allows anyone to sign up for a free account and create a customized RSS feed for their favorite webcomics. While they may eventually get some grief from newspaper comic strip syndicates, they have done the right thing by not pulling comic images directly for the feed. Instead, a link to the website publishing the comic is provided. Continue Reading
I’ve posted a long and detailed progress report about the work I’m currently doing on WCN, which contains quite a bit of information about the powerful cross-indexing and traffic-sharing functionality the service will have — and explains my developing strategy for creating and maintaining this functionality. If you’re interested in finding out just why WCN will be different from every other webcomics hosting service, or if you’re a programmer who can offer me some helpful insight into XML, data syndication, and other such things, you might want to read the report.
Thanks!
I was reminded again today of the wonderful service provided by Comics By Email. Comics By Email delivers webcomics by email to readers who sign up for the service. Any creator can sign up with Comics By Email and have their webcomic delivered by email. There are currently a number of great webcomics available through the service including: Algernon’s Dilemma, Alien Dice, Bottle Rocket, Freefall, Funny Farm, Innies and Outies, Newshounds, Pewfell Porfingles, and lots more. Continue Reading
It’s gaming month and that means that blah blah blah disappointing lack of female characters in comics about gaming blah blah blah my D&D experiences blah blah blah; too many people doing gaming comics about two college roommates blah blah blah women like shamelessly slaughtering orcs too occasionally blah blah game reviewer for Computer Gaming World named "Scorpia" who was really cool blah blah blah and once in awhile you found a woman who games with other women rather than a small cabal of smart-mouthed male characters against whom she is set as the "sane/reasonable" character who tries to be one of the boys but ultimately adores shopping blah blah blah PvP blah blah only computer game I’ve ever enjoyed was The Longest Journey and blah blah blah Final Fantasy blah blah why aren’t there more chicks doing this stuff already.
Okay, I really needed to get that first paragraph off my chest. I feel much better now.
Filthy Lies unveils a new website design in preparation for its 50th comic this Wednesday. The new design includes a totally new way to handle and update comics designed for the independent webcartoonist! Continue Reading
Peter Conrad, alternative comic artist and creator of the popular “Stymied” comic strip, released an application called Zeenster for the Palm OS that allows users to read comics on handhelds. Unlike other handheld comics readers, all Zeenster content is free and bumable. A non-proprietary file format encourages individuals to create their own Zeenster content using tools available over the Internet. Continue Reading
Dirk Deppey directs us to a story on the I-Comic application to read webcomics.
Just as interesting are some of the comments to the story. Is I-Comics a nifty tool for reading webcomics or simply enabling republication without the creator’s consent? Continue Reading
I’ve been researching a story on RSS and how this online syndication standard could be useful to webcomic publication but Bugpowder has taken the more direct approach in this entry pointing out the great online RSS reader Bloglines and a site for finding webcomic RSS feeds. Worth checking out! Continue Reading
I’ve been thinking about whether webtoonists are still concerned about the limitations of 56k dial-up connections anymore. Broadband is much more widely available (if not used) than it was even just 2 years ago. Several webcomics, (including this one) routinely break the 100k per image barrier (back in the old skool day 50k images were pushing it). I’ve been on broadband since mid-1999 so dialup is a distant memory but isn’t 100k kind of sloooow on a dial-up connection?
Looks like Rocketbox has been discussing this too. Continue Reading
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