Gatillos

Well it’s really taking me a while to draw the next page. All the drafts and dialogue are finished, it’s just a matter of… well… drawing :).

Here’s a sneak peek of what’s to come. Oh the mystery.

I want to create two comics, one is LIFE/interior and the other is so far called ‘3-panel comic’. The first one should receive weekly updates, while the second will be more random.

In order to have two comics I thought the site needed some changes, or else I would have to have two sites. I’ve never liked the navigation, but what I came up with is not that much better.

When adding text that is narrated, I usually add a rectangular box and put it hanging around. It’s not like a balloon but maybe I should do like everybody else and put the box on top of the panel when it’s supposed to be read before whatever is happening in the panel.

Like in this example from the upcoming page:

Also, I might reduce the size of the drawings, I tend to do them too big. I’m hesitant though, because if you’ve got a nice big monitor they look much better. Maybe I should play with different resolutions.

Just a quick note to record how upgrading from Wordpress 2.x and Webcomic 2.x went for me. I waited quite a while until most people stopped complaining about upgrade problems before trying it.

First, I saved posts with the export tool (which doesn’t give that much peace of mind because it doesn’t include images). Then I did a full backup of the whole site and a dump of the mysql database. I do that regularly with a small script so that was easy.