I’ve been terribly remiss in tagging my updates. I know that if I don’t do it as the comics go up it will be a bear to go back and add them in later. And having only some of the strips tagged will be worse then useless. Anyway, I hope you enjoy the comic. If this your first viewing I recommend clicking the “First Comic” button above. The thing might make a bit more sense, read through from the beginning.
…but come in, come in. The place is a bit of a mess, but make yourself at home. Feel free to look around…
No really, I sat down to work on the ol’ comik and what do I see? My friends over at Lost Zombies send twitterers my way. Ack! guess I gotta get serious. Ok. I really hope to have #31 up on Friday. In the meantime, if you’re new to the strip, it might make a bit more sense if you start at the beginning. No guarantees, but there’s a better chance of sensibility if you take this comic in order.
Thanks for taking a look at my humble efforts! Please leave any comment if the work here strikes you. Like it? Hate it? let me know!
Full disclosure: Skot and Ryan at Lost Zombies are my cousins! Thanks guys for nod. You guys are the best!!!
I’ve given myself over to my need to obsessively noodle away in the remote corners my panels. So it could be a bit longer before the next installment is complete but it is coming… I can say that yes indeed, it is on it’s way. Here’s evidence…
Can’t seem to post an image in WP. It keeps freezing on me. Well, here’s a link to 29 in progress if you’re interested.
I’m still keeping going if it’s only 15 minutes a day, and with everything else that been going on of late, most days, that’s about all I can manage. I hope to get 29 finished this weekend and then maybe get back on a weekly schedule? No promises!
Back from Orlando and a great elearning conference. Lots of very interesting ideas flying around. Lots of stuff on 2.0 technologies and concepts and at least 4 sessions on visual storytelling and/or comics in learning. Awesome stuff.
I thought, perhaps, I could do some Trifling in the evenings, but unfortunately the travel and pace of the conference was not beneficial to my health, and the cold that I brought to Florida morphed into something vaguely more ominous: a deep hacking cough, and a heavy weight on my chest. Most nights I barely had the energy to work on my notes from the days sessions, let alone the creative fire I need to produce a strip of AT. I got a little bit of penciling done on the plane, but alas, only an agonizingly trifling bit.
Really, really shooting for a nice chunk on Friday. Stay tuned!
Looks like I’m not gonna get a strip up this week. I am fighting the sickie thing, and need all the sleep I can get. back on track next week.
Working to getting an update up on Friday. So much going on with other work I’m at pains to keep things moving here. But things are moving; just moving very sloooooowly at the moment. Next week I will be at a conference in Florida all week, and although my days will be absorbed, I will have completely undivided time in the evenings. I hope to get some buffer going so I can get back to twice weekly updates.
Working away on #24. Take a look at in progress on my twitter feed.
Interestingly enough, I was listening to a recording of a webcomics panel with Chris Straub and Brad Geiger and they were talking about the trap of spending too much time on a comic and not getting it posted regularly; the desire to make something great getting in the way of getting it done. I think the actually quote was “The opposite of great is done.”
Yeah but….
Ug. 10 days (more or less…stop counting, damn you!!) since my last entry. And, well, I continue to work on the next installment. I just have so little time, and refuse, at this point, to rush the process. But I’ve let slip the posting side of the site, as well as the comic and that is just not right. So here’s something of interest and apropo of my current comix-ing status. Found via Cartoon Brew.
Subscribe via RSS. The next strip is coming. Any day. Really. It’s just gestating 5 minutes at a time.
Well, here we are in 2009. I finally added some much needed design to the ol’ site. And after nearly 2 months I have another strip up. And I’m just not happy about it. The gap was way too long and the strip sucks. But! it’s not my fault. It’s all the fault of the HalfPixel guys. Really. Here’s the deal: a very larger part of what motivated me to actually get this stupid comic moving was the Web Comics Weekly Podcast, which I’ve been listening to regularly for the last year or so. One of the things they stress again and again is the importance of keeping to a regular schedule. I know from my own web reading habits, that a consistent poster of comix (or any content for that matter) is much more likely to garner regular readers. To be sure, if the content is really excellent, a lot of folks will wait for next installment whenever it comes, but all other things being equal, a comic that successfully meets a schedule will have a more loyal following than an erratically publisher. And here’s where I’m getting into trouble. You see, to make my schedule, not only are my comics turning out lame, but I’m not having fun doing them. I don’t like rushing through, just to meet an arbitrarily imposed deadline, especially when I don’t have any readers anyway! On the other hand, I need the deadline to keep it moving and if I don’t hit some kind of schedule I’ll never gain any readers. Catch 22.
This is clearly not working for me. I need another approach. Here’s what I’ve decided to do: I will let the comic grow more organically in format and as far as the schedule goes. I will post the comic as I finish pieces of it, but I will use the blog side more often to keep the regular post coming. Making this part web comic and part process blog, I guess. Now, admittedly, a process blog is usually only interesting or of value if the person blogging is an accomplished practitioner of the process about which they are blogging, but perhaps my struggles over launching a comic will be of interest to someone, even if it ends in abject and utter failure and collapse. If nothing else it will provide an object lesson in what not to do if you are creating a web comic.
So! if by some peculiar twist of web link fate you have arrived here at this humble endeavor, PLEASE, before you click on to something else, give me a shout and let me know what you think, even if you think the comic is terrible or my posts are pure bull-ony.
Thanks for your time, if you’ve read this far. And here’s to more trifling agony in ‘09!