A recent Geek Life podcast brought up the Bechdel test again. You know the one – based on a strip by Alison Bechdel about not watching movies that don’t have at least two female characters who at least once have a conversation that’s not about a guy. It turned into a meme and a way of critiquing movies, most recently this year’s Oscar nominees, as well as something to live up to in your own stories.
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You may have noticed that recently this site hasn’t been as active as it used to be. Even more so if you’ve been following me on Twitter because you’d know what to look for. Due to non-comicky obligations, I had to reduce my comicking time, cut down on Gate Crash and post more Conny Van Ehlsing one-shots and sketches than I’d usually have posted.
But don’t worry, I’m still around, working on the backend and preparing some stuff to go live real soon.-Ish.
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A while ago, a thread came up at the Webcomic List forum about how to deal with people using ad blockers. ‘Cause, you know, a lot of webcomics sites are financed by ads, and it’s kind of important to get you guys to see them.
There were two major groups of opinions: Those who put a note on their site asking ad blocker users (politely, to a variety of degrees) to switch those things off. And those who wouldn’t.
I’m one of those who wouldn’t.
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If you watched this site progress over that last half-year, you’ve noticed I’ve been adding some social network links. The latest addition was Google’s +1 button at the bottom of each post, along with the Facebook and the Twitter button. You can use these buttons as well as the Flattr button and the AddToAny menu to the left of most posts to show your support of all things Dreadful and, uh, Gatey. But you can also actually find me on those networks.
So here’s my social networks profile, sorted by my activity there in declining order. Which makes it the order you should check them out in, as well.
I’ve been a guest at the Webcomic Beacon the other day. (If you don’t know that podcast, check it out. I’ll wait. It can’t take you much more than 250 hours to get through all of the back episodes.) Not about my favorite topic, which is me, or more to the point, my comics. But about Flattr.
Listen to The Webcomic Beacon #181 – Payment and Funding Options
Here’s how it came to pass: Beacon host Fes asked around on Twitter if anybody knew about ways to make webcomics sites pay other than The Usual Ones. I suggested Flattr since it’s pretty popular with the German webcomics crowd, and because I want more people to use it so more people can click on my own Flattr buttons. So Fes asked me to present it on the show the next day, and I did.
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Since Warren Ellis just brought the topic up at Whitechapel, and I’ve already given my two cents’ worth over there, here’s a little write-up on why I’ve chosen to present most of my comics the way I’m presenting them: Upright. Like a regular comics page.
This discussion comes up a lot in forums, probably ever since Scott McCloud debated the value of the comic page layout in Reinventing Comics
My previous post about tweaking ComicPress into working as a multi-comics site got quite a bit of attention. ComicPress’ Frumph even linked to it in the tutorial section of Comicpress.net. Which, in my book, makes it a matter of responsibility to keep you folks up to date about the changes I’ve made to my fix since then, particularly to part 4 of the tutorial - creating custom home pages for the comics.
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Admittedly, Conny Van Ehlsing is probably too young to really understand Human Trafficking, but she knows monsters when she sees them! That’s why she participates in this year’s Comic Creators Alliance donations drive.
For a small donation you get a desktop wallpaper of about 110 comics and webcomics heroines, Brady Bunch style! Check the list of creators involved if you doubt the awesomeness!
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If you’ve read my guest blog at ComixTalk back in August, you might remember that I was a bit cautious about Flattr at first. But I did mention I’d try it some time. By which I meant, now that I have the new site.
So I’ve created a Flattr profile now, and for at least half a year or so, you’ll find a Flattr button in the left sidebar, right under the bookmark thingy. Feel free to use it as much as you want. (Also, since I can’t try it myself, let me know if anything’s wrong with it.) I’ll monitor the revenues, and after a couple of months, I’ll decide if I keep it or not.
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Setting up a WordPress blog takes about five minutes, according to WordPress. Setting up a ComicPress site doesn’t take too much time, either. Designing a new site from scratch takes considerably longer, but a seasoned web designer can get a good one done within a few weeks.
What really took me a while, though, was designing the site I had in mind around WordPress and ComicPress. The hardest part was to get ComicPress to display multiple comics the way I wanted it to. ComicPress isn’t set up for ‘deeper’ category structures. But it can be scammed into acting as if it was. So, in the spirit of being helpful and networky, here’s a tutorial on how to make it work the ‘Dreadful Gate way’. (If you don’t trust my advice, here’s how ComicPress’ Frumph made it work. Without chapters, though, and there are some more differences.)
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