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Hi webcomics thread at something awful. I got a new comic going on down at http://duckcomics.world the site is messy but "it's got the goods," which is to say, i have uploaded comics to them and they are legible by many objective standards. here is a SPOOKY "halloweek" high res preview! 
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FunkyAl posted:Hi webcomics thread at something awful. I got a new comic going on down at http://duckcomics.world the site is messy but "it's got the goods," which is to say, i have uploaded comics to them and they are legible by many objective standards. here is a SPOOKY "halloweek" high res preview! this is Good
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Oct 19, 2017 03:02
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Meanwhile, Ava's Demon is picking up steam again, and it looks like it's time for our favorite game—picking on Gil.
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Oct 19, 2017 20:40
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So apparently Chris Hastings of Dr. McNinja fame has started a Patreon for a bunch of comic series he's started posting on twitter: Monday: Magical Merlin - "Kooky wizard shenanigans" https://twitter.com/hastingsfunnies/status/912358869883596801 Tuesday: Queen of Clubs - "James Bond with a dash of Mary Worth" https://twitter.com/hastingsfunnies/status/918221495305981952 Wednesday: Asimov's Laws - "Robots and murder!" https://twitter.com/hastingsfunnies/status/912868313327456257 Thursday: Karate Sewer Gator - "Dumb dumb dumb" https://twitter.com/hastingsfunnies/status/921080335538053121 Friday: Woodsman! - "Mark Trail + Predator" https://twitter.com/hastingsfunnies/status/913599988453789696 Suffice it to say, I was a big fan of Dr. McNinja so I'm looking forward to seeing where he takes these.
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Oct 20, 2017 20:38
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I'm really happy to learn he's making comics that I can go read now, but Twitter is the worst possible place to post comics. When I click to focus on an image it usually gets smaller.
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Oct 20, 2017 20:56
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Ditocoaf posted:I'm really happy to learn he's making comics that I can go read now, but Twitter is the worst possible place to post comics. When I click to focus on an image it usually gets smaller. Good news! https://twitter.com/drhastings/status/921454819914678273 (Though unfortunately Tumblr is also terrible for comics)
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Oct 20, 2017 21:08
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This is asinine- doesn't he still have the doctor McNinja website? I realize this is a new set of series but it seems like a waste to not utilize it
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Oct 20, 2017 21:17
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An important revelation about parenthood in today's Astral Aves.
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Oct 20, 2017 22:10
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I deeply appreciate Astral Aves' approach to basically everything, but I have to say that I feel like it's reaching some kind of Critical Nasuverse Point where everybody is such a refuses-to-do-things-correctly weirdo that I can't actually remember what the correct way to do things is.
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Oct 20, 2017 22:12
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is there anywhere that's actually decent to post webcomics on anymore? i used to use smackjeeves and it was pretty good but i never see smackjeeves comics linked to nowadays. the best place for me was, tragically, deviantart - easy arrow-key navigation and when you clicked on a comic page it got big and you could read the text and then save it to your computer if you liked, unlike tumblr and twitter where clicking on an image sends you down a chaotic rabbit hole of arbitrarily shifting dimensions and then you can't get back home until you slay a mythical beast with many heads
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Oct 20, 2017 22:21
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Latchkey Kingdom and Mokepon are on Smackjeeves and I see them posted from time to time.
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Oct 20, 2017 23:50
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Comic Fury apparently has free unlimited hosting, no ads and allows you to use your own URL. I don't recognize a single title in their popular section, but it looks a lot like a less poo poo Drunk duck. Also while googling for this site I discovered that Ryan Schomer at some point registered 'webcomic.com' and it links to his lovely D&D comic. Stay classy, Rayne.
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Oct 21, 2017 00:31
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I know that using these big social media sites is an easy path to get stuck on for budding artists who don't really want to go through the effort of figuring out web design and domain hosting, but Chris Hastings hit the big time, and he's a veteran from way back in 2004, it feels kind of regressive to forego a website like that. Is this just the way the internet is going where people may not even use browsers, just the aps for their preferred social media sites?
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Oct 21, 2017 01:00
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Acebuckeye13 posted:Good news! Oh my god
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Oct 21, 2017 02:05
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Acebuckeye13 posted:Good news! well at least tumblr lets you tag things so you can read all of a single comic in a row, right? right?
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Oct 21, 2017 02:21
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Red Metal posted:well at least tumblr lets you tag things so you can read all of a single comic in a row, right? It relies on the poster to apply accurate tags to the posts. It looks like he has not done that yet, but it's still early enough that he might realize that he should do that and tag the comics that have already been posted and then continue to do that indefinitely. If consistent tags have been applied, then it's pretty easy to see all the posts with a given tag on a given blog. You can even do this in chronological order, not just reverse chronological, I'm pretty sure.
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Oct 21, 2017 02:46
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idgi he's just tagging everything chris hastings
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Oct 21, 2017 03:13
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FunkyAl posted:Hi webcomics thread at something awful. I got a new comic going on down at http://duckcomics.world the site is messy but "it's got the goods," which is to say, i have uploaded comics to them and they are legible by many objective standards. here is a SPOOKY "halloweek" high res preview! Your comic reads like it could be the official adaptation of Duck game.
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Oct 21, 2017 03:49
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the old ceremony posted:is there anywhere that's actually decent to post webcomics on anymore? i used to use smackjeeves and it was pretty good but i never see smackjeeves comics linked to nowadays. the best place for me was, tragically, deviantart - easy arrow-key navigation and when you clicked on a comic page it got big and you could read the text and then save it to your computer if you liked, unlike tumblr and twitter where clicking on an image sends you down a chaotic rabbit hole of arbitrarily shifting dimensions and then you can't get back home until you slay a mythical beast with many heads Aside from ComicFury, which was mentioned above (which is very flexible, but has a ... a questionable community and isn't great for exposure), there's Tapas which has nice layouts and will set you up with some ad revenue if you're doing alright, and Line Webtoon, which I hate navigating but if you're pulling good numbers they'll just straight up give you money.
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Oct 21, 2017 06:51
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Red Metal posted:well at least tumblr lets you tag things so you can read all of a single comic in a row, right? The good news is the twitter/tumblr thing sounds like it's just temporary. From his Patreon: Christopher Hastings posted:Other platforms will come soon, including a non-social media website, I just got excited to start the thing up, and wanted to just throw them on Twitter right away.
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Oct 21, 2017 07:18
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tapas looks cool and i wasn't aware of it, unfortunately it doesn't allow extremely racist work and that's my brand
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Oct 21, 2017 10:34
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the old ceremony posted:tapas looks cool and i wasn't aware of it, unfortunately it doesn't allow extremely racist work and that's my brand
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Oct 21, 2017 11:18
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I was gonna call you Michael Terracciano, but no one deserves that.
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Oct 21, 2017 11:21
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i am, through fell magic, a combination of the two
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Oct 21, 2017 11:44
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lmao i'm looking at tapas.io's forum and y i k e s i haven't even posted and i think i'm already banned
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Oct 21, 2017 12:02
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the old ceremony posted:lmao i'm looking at tapas.io's forum and y i k e s i haven't even posted and i think i'm already banned There's forums like that out there. Funny anecdote, back when the CAD mock thread was a thing, I thought it'd be a good idea to register an account on the CAD forums for some reason. I don't remember why, probably safari related, whatever. Anyway, i registered under the same as here and immediately got banned by the mods doing new user authentication for having the name of a trademarked product as my username. So yeah. In hindsight, it was probably for the best.
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Oct 21, 2017 12:44
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I have a mirror on Tapas, it's okay but it's a very self contained ecosystem. I have my own hosting for my comic and I'll put update posts with previews on my Twitter /Tumblr and a link to the update on the site. Basically my thinking is make it easy for people to know when there's an update and how to find it, I still keep an rss feed too. Or did, when I still updated. Lol.
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Oct 21, 2017 13:10
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This is great: https://twitter.com/LackadaisyCats/status/921123739575734274
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Oct 22, 2017 05:03
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Oct 22, 2017 07:06
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buy your own website with cheap hosting, sites aint that hard to set up. fans of star trek and moms all did it constantly in the 90s and now theres tools so easy that any dummy anywhere can do them e: also your website and comics will be less likely to die when venture capital runs out and google and amazon realize they are suspended in midair over the grand canyon and the effects of gravity begin to take place, so to speak
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Oct 22, 2017 18:42
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FunkyAl posted:and now theres tools so easy that any dummy anywhere can do them And they all look like this: http://adventurega.me/bootstrap/
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Oct 22, 2017 18:47
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Cat Mattress posted:And they all look like this: http://adventurega.me/bootstrap/ i know when i read a webcomic i am primarily concerned with the novelty of the layout, and not my ability to easily read said comic (that site is funny tho)
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Oct 22, 2017 19:12
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FunkyAl posted:buy your own website with cheap hosting, sites aint that hard to set up. fans of star trek and moms all did it constantly in the 90s and now theres tools so easy that any dummy anywhere can do them Tumblr is currently owned by Verizon, so I think they'll be alright for a while, but Twitter has been losing money consistently for a while, and I don't know how long that can last. For some reason it just keeps on becoming more culturally significant.
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Oct 22, 2017 20:36
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Vine created an entire artform and died, so who knows.
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Oct 22, 2017 20:39
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SlothfulCobra posted:Tumblr is currently owned by Verizon, so I think they'll be alright for a while, but Twitter has been losing money consistently for a while, and I don't know how long that can last. For some reason it just keeps on becoming more culturally significant. A lot of companies are in a weird place where they've become incredibly successful but people loathe all the parts of them that make the actual money, usually because they involve selling the users as the actual product.
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Oct 22, 2017 20:46
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FunkyAl posted:amazon realize they are suspended in midair over the grand canyon and the effects of gravity begin to take place, so to speak sure hope you're hosting it on your own server then because lol SlothfulCobra posted:Tumblr is currently owned by Verizon, so I think they'll be alright for a while, but Twitter has been losing money consistently for a while, and I don't know how long that can last. For some reason it just keeps on becoming more culturally significant. Remember like a decade ago when everybody who was doing anything online had either a Livejournal or a Myspace social media platforms are a fad thing with a set lifespan and it's no big to transition between them, but Amazon and Google own enough of the Internet that if they go down it won't matter what you do A Wizard of Goatse fucked around with this message at 21:13 on Oct 22, 2017 |
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Oct 22, 2017 21:01
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Meanwhile, the creator of Not Drunk Enough has announced his transition, and shall henceforth be known as Tess Stone, presumably because he is a glutton for punishment and wants to be greeted with Hanna Is Not A Boy's Name references for the rest of his natural life. (I suppose if people will never stop asking you about a thing you may as well integrate it into the core of your public persona.)
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Oct 22, 2017 21:02
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I don't think Google and Amazon are going anywhere any time soon, but that bubble is gonna pop, and we're gonna lose some big names with it. Verizon, maybe.Rand Brittain posted:A lot of companies are in a weird place where they've become incredibly successful but people loathe all the parts of them that make the actual money, usually because they involve selling the users as the actual product. Social media brand presence things like the Denny's Tumblr and the Arby's and Wendy's Twitters are the wave of the future. girl dick energy fucked around with this message at 21:18 on Oct 22, 2017 |
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Oct 22, 2017 21:15
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if the Baby Bells start croaking your optimal webcomics hosting plan is to train a fleet of carrier pigeons to deliver your comic to your fans in exchange for canned food
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Google and Amazon, suffering catastrophic losses in the Super Great Depression 64 DX and Knuckles, are bought out by Skynet. The only difference we notice is that you can look at weird porn and buy action figures before the Terminator crushes your skull.
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