busybee comics: Ascent

This stuff is still on the backburner. It doesn’t mean I don’t love you though. <3

I would appreciate it if others could improve the Comixpedia entry. I feel silly writing about myself and my comic from the third person with a weak-sauce attempt at NPOV.

Sorry folks, but I just moved into a new condo and it seems more useful to unpack stuff than it does to draw stories about genderqueer space monotremes or whatever. (Womble, on the other hand, has updates for the next month even if I’m hit by a bus.)

Today’s Unity probably represents the longest time it’s taken me to color a comic in ages. And of course I doubt anyone even would notice the fiddly little details in the coloring without me pointing them out. I sure know how to spend my time effectively!

It has been a while since the August 14 coloring ordeal. And I didn’t spend nearly as much time as I could/should have on today’s comic but there you go.

Okay um, news news news. I only have one more Womble in the queue right now and I think I’m going to take a break from it (I have tons of ideas for it but I’m not inspired to draw any of them just yet). A new chapter of Unity is starting (insofar as I have chapters per se) and people might be confused or they might not be and maybe people will hate me for it but whatever, it’s my comic so nyah.

Also I just took a couple sips of my homemade vanilla-lime soda and it’s a bit weird. I think it needs more lime.

THAT IS ALL.

Oh and also Jazaaboo made this for me although I am not sure if she wants me linking to it since I guess it was just a quick sketch which is unfinished? Anyway she’s awesome.

A while ago I posted a review of various Wacom nibs over on my blog. If you don’t read my blog but do read the newsbox here and care what I think about my drawing implement of choice, well, I guess you could read it.

I’ve updated the cast page to include Eugene. However, he is missing a family name. So, post your suggestions for his full name in this comment thread, and I’ll make my favorite one canon!

All of the past comics are now transcribed thanks largely to Smarasderagd and Bug (and hopefully they’ll stay relatively up-to-date from now on), and you may notice that now you can view a comic’s transcript as well.

Bengo wrote a nice brief review of my comics. Thanks, Bengo!

You should read his and his wife’s comics Li'l Nyet and Scratchin Post, two semi-metaphorical treatises on the socioeconomic ramifications of varying political gestalts throughout history, both observed and subjunctive, as portrayed by talking cats.

If you ever wonder why I only update 2-3 times a week, consider that I could always take shortcuts but I don’t think I could live with myself. (I do occasionally reuse backgrounds and rough layouts and I feel guilty enough about that as is!)

Now it’s even easier to see transcripts for comics. I’m thinking of ways of improving it though, like maybe clicking ‘transcript’ makes it pop up in a little floaty window on the page or something, but that leads to other potential problems (but probably less problematic than how the navigation buttons get covered by the transcript right now). I’m open to suggestions.

I have to admit that I mostly did this so that Google would see the transcripts when it crawled my site, and being able to make it visible was just a bonus.

So, Bengo and I got in a conversation about comics and content management systems. Go ahead and read it if you like hearing all the boring details about why I think Movable Type is better for comics and site management than WordPress.

For those who are interested, I’ve written up an explanation of how I embed Oh No Robot transcripts, in case any other comic authors want to use it as well.

I’ll be out of town until the 30th. I’ll be bringing my portable Wacom with me so I might work on some non-Unity strips. On the plus side, I have buffered Unity updates until the 30th anyway, so there shouldn’t be any interruptions in the regularly-scheduled updates. I just thought you should know.

Also I have a poll going on over in the completely-unused forum, if you want to comment. One of the things I plan on doing while I’m on vacation is attempting to improve the site layout, so I’d like to know sooner rather than later.