I played a bit of the new browser-based Legends of Zork when it launched, mostly because Jim Zubkavich did the artwork for it. Fun but got a bit repetitive for me so I stopped. They’ve kept making changes though so I thought I’d give it another shot.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Butch is from Lee Adam Herold’s dark twisted puntastic Chopping Block webcomic.
Angst Technology Bobbins Cool Cat Studio Diesel Sweeties The Grimbles Owlie Ozy and Millie Ubigod’s Hurricane When I Grow Up White House in Orbit Zortic
UPDATE MARCH 2013: I just found this on the wayback machine. There were all kinds of KeenSpace events that comics on that hosting site would organize for each other. This one was for everyone to include the words “Whoa Deja Vu” in their comic on the same day.
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