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chrisSturhann

I'll be in Room 11 most of the time, I'll also e-mail Greg with my cell number. I'll try to check back here, but no guarantees.

chrisSturhann

Hi, I just talked to the programming coordinator. He has a cancellation in one of the small programming rooms at 5:30 on Saturday. Kind of late in the day, but that's the only time he has at this point. If we want it, we need to decide right away, because he might end up giving it away if something ...

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I'll be there from about Monday on. Yeah, I know it doesn't start until Thursday, well Wednesday night actually. I do the Newsletter for the convention, so by the time, people start showing up on Wednesday or Thursday, I've been busting a$$ for three days already. I'll post my likely whereabouts/how...

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For books to become obsolete in the same fashion, it would take the entire publishing industry as a whole to agree on an alternative format and start producing whatever that is rather than old-fashined paper books. And I don't see that happening anytime soon. (Now I expect that someday I'll have to...

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Ben, Thanks for the comments. I printed it out yesterday. Just to get a feel for how it would layout into pages. In standard comic layout (no trails), it would go three pages. With trails, it would go four pages. Which way we go, will probably be determined by how tight his page budget is. I'd much ...

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Hi all, I've got something of a delemma. I just posted a comic on my skateboarding site called Skategeezer http://www.nosewheelie.com/griptales/1/index.html Well, I just saw a post on a skateboarding bulletin board I follow from a friend, who publishes a print skateboarding magazine called The Concr...

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Hi all, I just did a new online comic. It's something I've been working on for a couple of months, a story about skateboarding and getting old called "Skategeezer." I'm not entirely happy with it, but I did learn a lot doing it. It's actually on my skateboarding page, but you can get to it from my n...

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Yingo, I could have sworn I posted this, but apparently I must have wrote it up in Notepad, forgot to post it, and closed it without saving, bummer. Me, I'd highly recommend that you learn to code by hand even if you decide to use an editor anyway. If you're doing tables, coding by hand can be a rea...

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Yingo, Your comments made me think of this time. I was about 12 or 13 and MAD did a movie satire of Chinaclown (Chinatown). My brother who is five years older than me read it and said it helped him understand some things that he didn't pick up in the movie. I guess that's why MAD was so important. I...

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About ten, fifteen years ago I saw an ad in Mad Magazine and freaked. Then I looked closer and was relieved to see that it was just a parody. It was just done so well that it look real at first glance. A couple of months ago, I picked up a Mad and saw an ad, real this time. Must be tough on the peop...

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The art looks great. I wish I could draw half that well. I wouldn't worry about the design of the site or not being web savvy. It looks great. The only thing I would change is a small problem with the coding on the top page http://thrdgll.tripod.com/index.html The title in head is New Page 3 <head> ...

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Max, I didn't really have a problem with the quote since it only shows up on the first page, but I'm thinking that if a couple of people find it annoying, it's probably best to get rid of it. I didn't have a problem with the lettering, but do think the balloons are off. I'm not the best person to co...

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Actually, I don't use a scanner and haven't done much with raster images. Paint Shop Pro does do vector drawing, although not as sophisticated as Corel Draw or Illustrator, but probably easier to use. I probably could get better results going the scanner, raster image route, but I like the way you c...

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Yingo, Art has always been a struggle for me. I'm trying to draw on computer, and it's coming fairly slow. Plus, I still trying to find a style that I can pull off. The style I like more than anything is old magazine gag cartoons from the 1940s and 50s. This isn't an attempt at that. I'll shoot for ...

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I think that it would be helpful to look at in two ways. Writing for yourself as the artist and writing for someone else as the artist. Writing for yourself. A lot of my stuff tends to be based on anecdotes of things that happen to me. In that case, I usually write it out as it happened and then bre...

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Hi, Although I've had gag cartoons and comics online for years, this is my first comic that uses the "infinite canvas" approach. It's about 18 panels and weighs in at roughly 200 K. It's a self contained comic called Energy, and it's the first link under Recent Updates at http://www.chrissturhann.co...

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Glych, I've read through all of this and I think that the idea of a comic artist agent is fine. Been done, but that's not to say that there isn't room for another agency. To do such a thing, you would really to know the business. You would also need a lot of contacts. You would need to know who is l...

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Bill, Something you said made me think of something I'd never thought of before. I'm surprised that the comic industry doesn't embrace webcomics, rather than treating them like their bastard children. A big problem has been that anyone with enough money self-publish a comic has been able to do so. A...

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My biggest problem with print comics is not with the concept of print. I love a good funny book. There's something very cool about it. My problem is with the way they are packaged and sold. There's this whole hunter-gatherer collector mentality that drives the industry. I don't have the time or pati...

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Ashley, Generally speaking, I could do with a bit less twitching and animation online myself, but I have seen animation used very effectively in some online comics. I can appreciate your preference for printed comics and books in general, and in some respects, I share them. My problem with comic boo...

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There are a handful of points I'd like to respond to. First Yingo. I agree it only a matter of time before some form of digital reader makes it possible to easily read, carry, and view digital content anywhere. Back in the eighties, one of my biggest problems with Star Trek TNG was that they would s...

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Spiderweb,

Actually, that's what I'm working on, an online comic about skateboarding.

Chris

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Spiderweb,

I'll probably pass on the dreams jam. I rarely ever remember my dreams, so it's not a part of my psyche I'm particularly in touch with. Besides, I've got another project I trying to get moving on. I may do self protrait thing, though.

Chris

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Spiderweb,

For animation, I'm using Animation Shop as well. I like it. It's easy. I find that programs with too many features just confuse me.

Chris

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