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2005/11/29: Albinism

You may have noticed that the comic is all black-and-white. It turns out that coloring the strip does take a significant amount of time after all. So I'm experimenting with a more minimalist presentation for the time being.

Please don't hate me!

Especially because I've been having some pretty severe carpal tunnel issues recently, and so I need to reduce the amount of hand-using free time activities I do. So the comic is on hold for now anyway.

I might experiment with other ways of updating the comic, though, like I'm considering using modeling clay or something, at least as a temporary diversion. Dunno yet. It's pretty frustrating because I have lots and lots of ideas for comic stuff!

2005/11/18: psst

The forum is totally where all the cool kids are hanging out.

2005/11/15: Oh, no robot?

OhNoRobot is having problems with their hosting provider (Ryan's trying to convince Dreamhost that the site really isn't under attack and that it's really just that it's very popular) so that's why there's little broken image links under every comic. Hopefully things will get sorted out soon!

2005/11/11: Oh no! Robot!

So, yeah, OhNoRobot is the Mechanical Turk of the webcomic world. Searchable comics are good. Needing to transcribe everything myself is not so good. So it's pretty opportune that this would come up right now, since I've had various requests for making it searchable.

(For what it's worth, Eaveston, my first webcomic which I'm not going out of my way to preserve on the Internet, was fully-searchable, because I had an alternate text-only view of things. I really don't feel like doing that here though.)

Anyway, if you see a "transcribe comic" button, feel free to, well, transcribe the comic.

It'd be really nice if it supported Unicode text, though, rather than being the same old annoying ISO-8859-1 silliness which breaks the display of the title in basically everything.

2005/11/08: Time consumption

Grargh, I've got to figure out some way of speeding up my workflow. This comic's too time-consuming considering the amount of free time I have right now. I might just switch to black-and-white for a while, though that seems kinda lame since actually coloring the comics isn't what takes all the time. I've already stopped shading things and pared backgrounds down to the bare minimum, though, and really all that's left to speed up is the foregrounds.

The only way to speed up foregrounds is to start doing copy-paste on everything, which is something I see as a last resort.

On the plus side, I recently ordered a larger Wacom tablet and that might speed things up a bit. (Currently I use the smallest one, which means to get any sort of precision I have to zoom way in and this means I spend more time scrolling around than actually drawing, and the extreme size mismatch between screen and pen was pretty frustrating too.)

I might also experiment with actually drawing the strip on paper and just using the computer to color and letter it, though I'm not sure if that would really help any.

2005/11/04: How long was my site down, anyway?

And why didn't anyone tell me? Jeeze.