March To Do List
Get out your calendar and start circling dates. It’s time to do a little webcomics planning.
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Get out your calendar and start circling dates. It’s time to do a little webcomics planning.
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Last week, I opened a survey asking members about their plans for the upcoming comic-convention season. Here are the answers — followed by a brief analysis.
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This is the fifth installment in the Web Design Hot seat. Same rules as all of the Hot Seat critiques. I’ll discuss the participant’s work and then open the conversation up to the group at large. Each header contains a link to the comic’s Web site, and each image is a thumbnail you can click to see a larger version of the image.
In terms of a review, here are the basics I’m looking for in site design:
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Piggy-backing on last week’s post on baggage guideline for major US airlines, I wanted to post a little more travel-related information as we go into what I consider the official launch of con season, Emerald City Comicon.
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With convention season upon us once again, I thought it would be a good idea to update the luggage guidelines applied by American air carriers.
Updated as of February 2013, here are the list of baggage fees being charged by major American airlines (excluding special programs or privileges) for travel within the United States. All of the below restrict luggage to a maximum of 62 linear inches* and 50 lbs (except Spirit, which draws the line at 40 lbs.).
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I’ve long endorsed 14Blocks.com as a way of optimizing and planning your Tweets. They’ve updated their dashboard and I seem to have lost a lot of the functionality that I used to rely on. I’m withdrawing my endorsement until I see how this shakes out.
It has been a little while since we did a survey, and with one of the first major shows of the year, Emerald City Comicon, around the corner, this might be a good idea to get a feel for where most members are standing in regards to personal appearances and conventions.
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A post today reminded me of a topic I meant to bump earlier. We try to do a little organized information-gathjering on comic conventions. To that end, I created a number of site posts based on some of the more popular conventions. To find it, simply type the name of the convention you’re interested in and click on the “Convention Dish” entry for that con.
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This is the fourth installment in the Web Design Hot seat. Same rules as all of the Hot Seat critiques. I’ll discuss the participant’s work and then open the conversation up to the group at large. Each header contains a link to the comic’s Web site, and each image is a thumbnail you can click to see a larger version of the image.
The sites I’m looking at for this round are great examples of what I think really works for (a) Horizontal and (b) Square or vertical comic Web sites. They both do the following:
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Q: When starting a new strip. Would it be better to start with already established characters and show the origin in flashbacks or a later story or would you at first show how the characters meet and the sort of who, what, why, when and how of the main setting and character’s origins at the outset.
An example would be the Incredible Hulk movie to, say, the Captain America or the Iron Man movie. The former started out with him already the Hulk and everything established, the latter showed the origins of the character and the setting.
I chose those examples over Superman or Spider-Man because those origins were less known to the non-comic reading audience and I see the same thing for the new webcomic, the origin wouldn’t be known to the intended audience.
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