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Tomorrow is the last day of Scary Go Round

by Xaviar XerexesSeptember 10, 2009

Wow – last update to Scary Go Round tomorrow. There’s something about John Allison’s sense of humor both the words and the visuals that’s always clicked with me. I’ve been reading his webcomic posts since the earliest days of Bobbins. Next up is Bad Machinery (or title to be named) which by all of the hints Allison has dropped will take place in the same slightly off-kilter alternate Tackleford he’s created but with a focus on a different set of characters. Anyhow – looking forward to what he comes up with next! UPDATE: Nice farewell post to SGR from Eric “Websnark” Burns here.

The 2005 Digital Strips Interview

by Xaviar XerexesAugust 30, 2009

For the historical record: I was interviewed by Zampson and Daku for the original version of Digital Strips back in 2005 — the only time I’ve been on a podcast. I had this on in the background all morning. One – hope I apologized to Kelly back then about talking so much (I think I had a hard time hearing her on the internet call we did for the interview). Two – the library idea did work but I pulled it down in the change from Postnuke to Drupal (I wrote that code on Postnuke) and after its test period I needed to re-do it to require less editorial …

Webcomic Merit Badges

by Xaviar XerexesAugust 29, 2009

Guest Artist Okay I get this merit badge — I did a few guest comics for others back in the last century. The main two I remember (fondly) are one for Chopping Block and one for GPF. I just found the GPF one — it was a joke about patents! Ha, perfect for GPF. And jokes about patents are just as relevant today as they were in 2002. (Can’t find the Chopping Block one on google though…) Gabba Gabba Hey You get the webcomic merit badge Gabba Gabba Hey for joining a collective. Hey I get this one too – I was part of Alternative Brand Studios (or Altbrand as it was known as) back …

Mashup of Annie Lennox Solo: Backwards, Forwards

by Xaviar XerexesAugust 5, 2009March 8, 2020

Annie Lennox let DJ Earwig at her master tracks to create a single mashing-up various songs from her solo career. The resulting single/video Backwards Forwards is really good. You can hear the other songs in it but it’s definitely something new too.youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fht_R7ELZZs?rel=0 While I’m posting about mashup video I’ll sneak in here a re-post of the buzzed about clip-up video from April that takes the music mashup to infinity and beyond — Mother Of All Funk Chords — remixed by Kutiman from pre-existing YouTube clips. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tprMEs-zfQA?rel=0

Custom Pager Module for Drupal

by Xaviar XerexesAugust 1, 2009

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). It’s also possible to theme it with images for the links (instead of the words “next” “last” etc) – I’ll add more to this post …

Mind of Freeman

by Xaviar XerexesJuly 28, 2009March 8, 2020

Half Life is one of my favorite videogames of all time. I only found out about Ross Scott’s series of videos called Freeman’s Mind this year. Simple but funny – Scott riffs over the action in the original Half Life game as if he was the main character. It is not at all what I’d think of as Freeman’s personality (although in a remarkably McCloudian trick, Half Life gives no personality to Freeman so that every person playing the games gets to fill in whatever they imagine).

Using Drupal to Publish Webcomics

by Xaviar XerexesJanuary 11, 2009

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. But for me I decided this year I was going to put everything I did on Drupal to save me some time administering the various sites I keep up. Drupal is actualy really good for setting up one code base and running multiple sites off of it. This way I spend less time updating …

Sita Sings the (C) Blues

by Xaviar XerexesJanuary 5, 2009

Nina Paley’s animated Sita Sings the Blues looks amazing (all I’ve had a chance to see is the trailer though) but who knows when any of us will get to see due to copyright issues with the song compositions (not the performances – they are in the public domain). Check out more details on Nina’s blog here and watch the interview below to get the whole story. Actually click here for Nina’s post on her current effort to get the film out to the public — she still needs to raise about $50,000 dollars to pay off rights holders. UPDATE …