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I think of you're looking for bright side stuff the number of comics has increased vastly but that implies a commensurate growth in the potential reading audience. That audience is likely hugely fragmented but hopefully in a good way, beyond the "two guys on a couch" premise being required to draw them in.
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ConanThe3rd posted:Something like Hugo with imagemagick for batch image conversion and some sort of tagging system for archives and such? Kind of. At least, that's the prior art I'd be drawing on for some of its features. I have grand ambitions: make it all GUI so that the artist can focus entirely on the content management; automatically optimize the generated site with things like prefetching the next page, minimizing file sizes, managing multiple resolutions for different contexts; generating an RSS feed, an archive, and a search page; organizing it with optional tags, chapters, and whatnot; putting accessibility features like transcripts and descriptions in the right place; making backups and incremental publication easy and keeping old versions around; easily integrating with social media, hosting solutions, comment platforms, and the like; even things like supporting multiple languages. Unfortunately, I deplete all of my programming energy at work, so for now all I'll be doing with this dream is dreaming it.
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my new comic will be uploaded to image hosts at random, in no particular order.
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That's basically what Pictures for Sad Children is now
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habeasdorkus posted:A lot of this is also nostalgia and comes from one of the folks who made it through the good old days successfully. Jeffrey Rowland had to found an entire distribution company just so he and his friends could write webcomics back in the aughts. And IIRC the amount of work Topatoco took up meant he stopped writing webcomics himself. There's tons of webcomic artists who back then couldn't really make their projects work or get any eyeballs on them because they didn't have connections to other artists. yeah all of this sort of handwaves away that back in the hazy glory days of webcomics the only ways to actually make money doing it were vanity press publishing or a Paypal tipjar, and the only people actively trawling the internet for obscure hobby art projects were SA goons and Portal of Evil guys looking for hosed up fetish poo poo to laugh at. toss up your own Wordpress site and promote it via your personal friends' word of mouth and don't ever bother with Kickstarter or Patreon and you'll get the same 40 pageviews a month you woulda got in 2007. A Wizard of Goatse fucked around with this message at 21:30 on Jun 21, 2022 |
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:yeah all of this sort of handwaves away that back in the hazy glory days of webcomics the only ways to actually make money doing it were vanity press publishing or a Paypal tipjar. toss up your own Wordpress site and promote it via your personal friends' word of mouth and don't ever bother with Kickstarter or Patreon and you'll get the same 40 pageviews a month you woulda got in 2007. it was better this way
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Speaking of successful authors self-hosting their webcomics, Skin Horse by Shaenon Garrity & Jeffrey Wells, has concluded after nearly 15 years. It's set in the same universe as her earlier work Narbonic (itself excellent), but can be read on its own. I've been waiting for this for years and am definitely going to settle in and read the whole thing now. Official PDFs and hardcopies can be preordered now, and are expected to be available sometime this fall, but the whole thing can be read without gaps on the website.
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ive been following this series of comics (dog names, someone else, no matter what) on twitter and just realized they've also got a dedicated website so here's a link recommended if you like stories about true crime, being online, and very normal guys 
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dmboogie posted:ive been following this series of comics (dog names, someone else, no matter what) on twitter and just realized they've also got a dedicated website so here's a link I've heard of No Matter What, it's the one about the guy who was like, accessory to murder and is now appearing on a true crime podcast? Something like that?
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dmboogie posted:ive been following this series of comics (dog names, someone else, no matter what) on twitter and just realized they've also got a dedicated website so here's a link It's really good. Deeply depressing and way too real.
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Joe Slowboat posted:I've heard of No Matter What, it's the one about the guy who was like, accessory to murder and is now appearing on a true crime podcast? Something like that? thats the broad strokes yeah it updates decently often but its still a pretty short read to get all caught up so i dont wanna get too in-depth with the summary
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dmboogie posted:thats the broad strokes yeah Can confirm about it being quick to catch up on - i mainlined the whole thing in one sitting. Art's a little rough for me but it fits the mood/setting they're going for. On a different front i'm trying to track down a webcomic. Involves a female android that needs human contact to survive going on a cross nation road trip with a cute pet android that's plotting a revolution and a NEET guy she met online.
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dmboogie posted:ive been following this series of comics (dog names, someone else, no matter what) on twitter and just realized they've also got a dedicated website so here's a link Hey I liked this, thanks for sharing. The author's good at making the Terminally Online parts feel authentic without like, feeling like it's being mean about it, I guess.
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Vattu: And so she says, you can't dismantle the master's house with the master's tools, and I go, I says, they're the only tools I got baby!
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Wittgen posted:Today's Wilde Life made me extremely bummed out. Poor frog. It's alright, man-man's struggling sense of self preservation finally lost the battle. This might be a spoiler if we didn't all know it was an inevitability. GlyphGryph fucked around with this message at 13:48 on Jun 28, 2022 |
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fritz posted:Vattu: And so she says, you can't dismantle the master's house with the master's tools, and I go, I says, they're the only tools I got baby! This all feels like a concluding speech. Wonder what Dahm will get up to next. Lord knows he's been working on Vattu long enough.
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DoctorWhat posted:That's basically what Pictures for Sad Children is now
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dmboogie posted:ive been following this series of comics (dog names, someone else, no matter what) on twitter and just realized they've also got a dedicated website so here's a link I read these a few months back, definitely more a fan of Dog Names than the rest which is slowly turning into melodrama more than the terminally online but you're a convicted accessory.  
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i like dog names for what its trying to achieve (balancing absurdity of the situation with the horror) and the portrayal of modern online teens as natural drama hounds, but i think im too judgemental and mean to give the main character the sympathy its asking me to.
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:toss up your own Wordpress site and promote it via your personal friends' word of mouth and don't ever bother with Kickstarter or Patreon and you'll get the same 40 pageviews a month you woulda got in 2007. Hi my comic is Vigils for Friends, it's about ghost hunters but it's not like (or as good as) A Ghost Story. I'm not doing false modesty by the way, I think my comic is good, but AGS is excellent. There that's all the promotion I am doing.
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SavoyTruffle posted:This is what I've been doing and I actually get 60 views a month. I had to check that to make this post; you have to be fairly committed to just not looking at that stuff and doing it for the fun of it. This is good! Gave me a good laugh. The primary school chapter even managed to hit me all emotional like. Gonna keep following the adventures of these ghost-hunting lesbians
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SavoyTruffle posted:This is what I've been doing and I actually get 60 views a month. I had to check that to make this post; you have to be fairly committed to just not looking at that stuff and doing it for the fun of it.
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SavoyTruffle posted:This is what I've been doing and I actually get 60 views a month. I had to check that to make this post; you have to be fairly committed to just not looking at that stuff and doing it for the fun of it. i can't think of a higher compliment to have not only been spoken about so kindly by someone who makes comics but by someone who makes comics that make me laugh for real. the 10th one of the entire series got a for real laugh out of me. poo poo rules, its exactly what it needs to be. idk why but the british-isms keep knocking me on my rear end. screaming "THATS gently caress ALL" at a ghost trying to remember a tv show they might have watched is great e: hey. i know that 
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SavoyTruffle posted:This is what I've been doing and I actually get 60 views a month. I had to check that to make this post; you have to be fairly committed to just not looking at that stuff and doing it for the fun of it. Gosh, I love this! Thanks for posting it.
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Ahh thanks very much everyone! It is very British - specifically Cornish. Glad you got the Bloodborne stuff, fun hater. The longer story that's currently running isn't necessarily the way it's going to be permanently, I'm just experimenting with it.
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SavoyTruffle posted:Ahh thanks very much everyone! It is very British - specifically Cornish. Glad you got the Bloodborne stuff, fun hater. The longer story that's currently running isn't necessarily the way it's going to be permanently, I'm just experimenting with it. Some of my favourite bits: - the extremely believable (and very British) hated project developer and his random extreme precision about his phone's model - the microboop - the objectionable tit touching - the malapropisms/language mistakes. "I need you to learn the word Semantics" really got me. - the guy with his own app getting his comeuppance The girl who's always cold is also extremely relatable, speaking as someone's who is living with such a specimen.
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Ahahah okay I was not expecting the Knightmare callout, nice Edit: Yeah this is great, good job Kojiro fucked around with this message at 18:02 on Jul 1, 2022 |
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fritz posted:Vattu: And so she says, you can't dismantle the master's house with the master's tools, and I go, I says, they're the only tools I got baby! shirts and skins posted:This all feels like a concluding speech. Wonder what Dahm will get up to next. Lord knows he's been working on Vattu long enough. Dahm posted it'd be ending by uhhh September, I think? so yeah we've entered End Of Vattu, or: countdown to coup 
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SexyBlindfold posted:Dahm posted it'd be ending by uhhh September, I think? so yeah we've entered End Of Vattu, or: countdown to coup I’m not sure if there’s anyone left to try. The emperor’s dead, the chain of succession is toast, the Empire’s main export is gone and anyone trying to take the throne by force has to get past a unified and very temperamental army of ex-conquered peoples first
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SavoyTruffle posted:
That's a good comic, I just read the whole thing and added it to my rss feed. Thanks for making and posting about it.
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SavoyTruffle posted:This is what I've been doing and I actually get 60 views a month. I had to check that to make this post; you have to be fairly committed to just not looking at that stuff and doing it for the fun of it. I haven't gotten around to reading it but I've heard good things about your comic from the Dilcast (btw for anyone else reading this post: anyone who's a fan of It Hurts/Please Forgive Me should listen to the Dilcast)
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Digamma-F-Wau posted:I haven't gotten around to reading it but I've heard good things about your comic from the Dilcast (btw for anyone else reading this post: anyone who's a fan of It Hurts/Please Forgive Me should listen to the Dilcast)
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Carefully letting my eyes drift past this page because I still think I can hold out for a printed copy of the last Vattu book
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loving YES thank you so much
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fun hater posted:i like dog names for what its trying to achieve (balancing absurdity of the situation with the horror) and the portrayal of modern online teens as natural drama hounds, but i think im too judgemental and mean to give the main character the sympathy its asking me to. the author is very mean to milo on social media so I think you might have the right idea of it actually
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I have a lot of thoughts about it because yeah, Milo is acting like a developmentally arrested young adult but he literally was institutionalized during the last half of his teenage years so, y'know. I like the absurdity of the situation I guess, using the murder accessory set up as background for him being unable to process and engage with anything and being pushed to more bad choices like a lot of terminally online people. It's like "Tumblr witch steals bones" cranked up to 10. Like, sorry about the murder and all but stop trying to post through it. Log off. Delete your account. It's not helping.
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DoctorWhat posted:the author is very mean to milo on social media so I think you might have the right idea of it actually
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Synthbuttrange posted:I read these a few months back, definitely more a fan of Dog Names than the rest which is slowly turning into melodrama more than the terminally online but you're a convicted accessory. I remember this from before and just binged up to date. It hurts my soul in a way where that's a compliment.
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Splicer posted:For a minute there I thought you meant Milo Yiannopoulos Congratulations. You're the first person who's thought about Milo Yiannopoulos in 5 years.
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