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Of course, being on the internet already, there's little excuse for ignorance and I found the message board thread relating this this development and I understand better- It's not that CotC is a financial burden, but a time-sink. I understand and sympathize. With the classy artwork it must be prett...

One of the best fantasy/drama strips on the web looks like saying goodbye:
Clan of the Cats

I'm impressed. "Ballad" reminds me of Edward Gorey, with the dark fine-hatched style and Victorian* clothes and surroundings. Personally I like the vertical format; it's working well, and I'm pretty much used to vertical scrolling with large comic pages.

*Or Edwardian? I'm lousy on history.

Not that I think his plan will succeed. His comic is too niche marketed and I'd be surprised if he got taken up on it. Precisely. Not only is his demographic not large enough to attract the newspapers' attention, but they are also probably savvy enough to already read his strip on-line. There's no ...

It sounds a bit like the Modern Tales approach to online webcomic syndication. They let other websites show the latest comics for free, giving them a bit of javascript code that'll display the updating comic on their page. That way, they hopefully get readers who'll subscribe to the Modern Tales sit...

That sounds clear enough to me.

The only thing I could think of would be somebody mistaking the narration boxes for the dialogue of an offscreen character, say a god or some such entity. I'm thinking of One Over Zero in which the artist often talked (or quarreled) with his characters, putting his own speech in oblong boxes. But th...

Interesting discussion of how best to sell printed webcomic collections, started by the Modern Tales top-guy. Lots of detail, plus some nice sample comic-pages.
http://www.comicon.com/cgi-bin/ultimate ... 3&t=000627

I'd think it would be clear enough, as long as the narration box is clearly different from the speech-balloons. The bone-outline sounds a nice touch, though.

Looks like a wonderful tool. :D A Windows version would be great. I know Mac's the platform of choice for graphics-folk, but... well, let Kurtz say it. (Looks like he's making slow but definite progress towards his goal. ;) ) I've no idea how easy it would be to write, though. It would be a good ide...

OK, Rip, now I get it why you got dizzy :wink: I'd like to now what functionnality I should work on tomorrow (choose one in the list) and the days after : 1 fractal spiral 2 zooming interface with + - keys 3 make the spiral readable before all images are fully downloaded 4 XML spiral format specifi...

Depending on what browser you are using you could always right click on whatever image isn't showing up and select "Show Picture." Then you don't have to wait for the whole page to load up again. Thanks. :) That's a command I'd overlooked. It should help when it's just a few pictures missing. For v...

Here's a link to exactly the same applet, but downloading a gif instead of a png (it's been ages since I last optimized a gif,... yuck) http://happylandmaps.free.fr/comic_engines/spiral/20040628/Applet1.html That makes a difference. :) I forgot to mention I'd also tried out the applet on my old mac...

For the next update of my site (which will happen sometime in the not to distant future I hope) I'm considering offering each comic as a downloadable .zip file. That way you can decide if you want to browse it screen by screen while online (fine if you have a fast connection), or you can just downl...

I'm finding it working okay in IE6, but I've got the Java 2 platform, which I think might be a separate plug-in.

He's having second thoughts, and may start the comic up again in August.

Does anybody find problems downloading big comic pages with large numbers of separate image files? I find very large pages usually come up first time with a dozen missing pictures, and take several refreshes to appear complete. I originally put this down to my old computer, but I find the same thing...

It's not so much ending as changing form. Steve's putting the present webcomic on hold for a year at least, to work on other Melonpool projects.

Much thanks for the link. :) That's a great and unsettling book, and I won't forget it in a hurry. I'm very glad indeed the problem was sorted out, and I hope his eyes stay good. The idea of blindness frightens me too. Forty-five is hardly ancient, mind. My father learned to program in Basic at arou...

Rip Tanion wrote:Because you can zoom in and out, a branch can be as small or large in scale as you wish, and you don't have to worry about a branch getting so long that it crosses another.

I wonder what would happen if two branches did collide?

I gather Adobe Photoshop can do computer-generated tapering lines, though I haven't had the chance to try it myself.

The whole asterix, look for the note at the bottom of the facing page yada yada is just lazy storytelling, in my opinion. Or cheesy marketing for past issues I agree. But the devil's advocate in me says, what if you use it for some new, cutting edge, weird, artistic reason?... Though that kind of t...

Angle-brackets sound right to me too. I think it depends on context, and whether you'd be expecting the person to be speaking a different language from the others. In a scene of captured American WWII airmen, say, two guards could be <chatting together> and you'd know the brackets meant German speech.

Thanks. I know of one other great example: Sea of Insanity.