Deviations

[ultranos]

While moving all my stuff into my new apartment (oh god, my life has turned into a webcomic), I rediscovered all my old "Deviants from the Norm" comics. I seem to be missing some of the originals (*sadface*), and I realized that my homedir doesn't have all of them. Nor does Erebus, because apparently I was an idiot and never moved them from Kyr. This makes me sad, and I really should fix it.

Because "Deviants" wasn't bad. I've been asked if I'm planning on continuing it when I get back a few times. Oh god, it's a lot of work, because I'm almost OCD about it. I sketch each comic, then reink it with Copics, and that actually takes a certain amount of time. And let's not get into when I get an email from the editor saying "hey, can we have this in color?"...at 11:00PM, because then I have to scan it and vector-trace it and color it in Photoshop. Yes, I may be insane.

But I honestly enjoyed doing it, when it wasn't driving me batshit insane. I've been playing with the idea of making it less MIT-centric and more general science/engineering/gamer/sci-fi based. I don't know. So, yes, I think I will continue. I just don't know if I'll put it in the campus newspaper. I've been talking for years about turning it into an actual webcomic. The real excuse I have is that I don't know CSS or whatever to make it easy. The last time I made a study of HTML was roughly seven years ago. (Then I discovered Dreamweaver...)

Comments

[kihou.livejournal.com]

If you need pointers with CSS or whatever, I've ended up getting competent at web design stuff, and I'm overly easy to convince to waste time on it. There are also places like ComicGenesis that take care of a lot of the backend stuff, if you're into that sort of thing.

[ultranos-fic.livejournal.com]

I might take you up on that. Really, I'd like to get myself competent at that sort of thing, including backend stuff. I was proud of knowing HTML well enough to teach it when I was 12. I wish I had the same relative skill now.

[kihou.livejournal.com]

CSS isn't really that bad for most common uses, though like HTML a lot of people use it poorly. Used properly, it makes making cool web pages a lot easier. Of course, if you want to go the whole AJAX/Web 2.0 route, you can spend arbitrary amounts of time/complexity on it.