When you want to make a custom page for a particular type of content (like a comic) on a drupal theme you have to make an extra tpl page (page-comic.tpl.php) AND!!! modify the template.php file.

Wish I'd remembered that earlier tonight...

It's always interesting what a CMS does out of the box and what gets filled in with extra modules (i.e., things you add on to the core program).  Drupal does a lot of nice things in its core but in general doesn't do everything.  In fact there seems to be a healthy ongoing evaluation of what should be in core and what shouldn't.

The Custom pager module for Drupal is what makes it possible to do a webcomic site with Drupal.  It's not the whole reason but it's a key piece.

A couple notes for using it -- one if you want the first and last links you're going to have to add a couple lines to the module file and to the CSS file.  I think the more "correct" way is to put it in the template file for the theme (instructions here).

A sketch I did in art class tonight.

Also trying out the "img" module for Drupal.  Drupal has several different approaches to adding images to posts (none of which are in the core install package).  I usually use "image" but wanted to try out "img" for a change.

I have been tinkering with altertainment.net to be my personal "creative" site (a slight deviation from last year's "about" annoucement) and in doing so - make Drupal webcomic-friendly.  Luckily it's almost there so I think with some pushing from me this could actually be a big year for Drupal + Webcomics.

I just posted the call-to-action below at the ghost-town-like webcomics group at http://groups.drupal.org:

Drupal really missed the boat in not more actively supporting webcomics a few years ago and now Wordpress with the help of the very effective Comicpress theme has taken a huge chunk of that market share.  If you're starting from scratch Wordpress + Comicpress is a great way to get going.

I met Ted from Lullabot at a DC Drupal Meetup last month. A very nice guy who explained some Drupal theme issues very clearly. So no surprise that his videoblog is really well done.