Free Comic Book Day 2007

Tenma · Post by **Tenma** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 12:37 pm

cortland wrote:I'm wrapping up the book, and I'd like everybody who's in the book--sponsors and contributors alike--to take a quick look at how I have your names, URLs, and comic titles laid out in the book on the table of contents page and elsewhere. PLEASE take a quick look and double-check to see if I spelled your name correctly and got the URL right, because after tomorrow it's going to be locked in stone. Note I have only a few pages of the book posted here to save space and keep certain comics secret until the book is published in May.

Thanks, guys! I can't wait to get this thing done! :D

http://www.cornstalker.com/cartoons/fcbd-contents.pdf

I'd much rather you used Nick Wright rather than Tenma for my name... Tenma is just my forum alias.

Thanks.

Col · Post by **Col** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 12:38 pm

For my part, you got the title right (Strange Happenings), but you need to change the author and URL to:

Colin Burke

http://strangehappenings.comicgen.com

Spqrblues · Post by **Spqrblues** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 12:55 pm

My name and comic look fine in the ToC. Nice looking ToC, btw. I like the little preview images.

A typo jumped out on p 7 of the PDF:

Well, you’re [should be "your"] comic is up and the website’s available. Now what?

I haven't read the rest of the text yet, though.

TheSuburbanLetdown · Post by **TheSuburbanLetdown** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 1:07 pm

Several of those are wrong just at a slight glance. Mine should be called:

The End of Things
by Chris Nititham
http://endofthings.comicgen.com

The name is wrong, and stinky is listed as the author, and the url is for Aldus.

Head doctor also had the url for Aldus, and Robin Pierce and Shenanigan has the url for Tales of the travelling gnome.

Spqrblues · Post by **Spqrblues** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 1:13 pm

I won't edit for little things like commas and the sort of minute nitpicking I'd normally do, but here are some comments from a very very quick read:

Webcomicing [hmm, what's the accepted form? I'd have said "webcomicking" to avoid looking like "icing" or any "-cing" verb such as "policing"] is a popular pastime on the web. Comic Genesis alone hosts just under ten thousand comics and we're quite happy for more if you fancy taking a stab at it yourself! Comic Genesis will host your comic and it's [should be "its" ] website entirely for free. All you have to do is come along and sign up.
...
As with any contract, you should read them [it] so you know what's what.
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You'll be dropped off at a webpage which tells you an email should be on it's [its] way and gives you a couple of links which allow you to check the status of your comic (bookmark it to check back) or go find some help on the Comic Genesis forums.
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Well, you're [your] comic is up and the website's available.
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Now, see where is [it] says "Add a ComicGenesis account to siteadmin?' That's where you link your webcomic to your new forum identify [identity? ].
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Comic Genesis is a community and the best place to go for help of any sort is the forums. There are hundreds of people there - myself included - who will [be] more than happy to help out.
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Joel Fagin writes tutorials and articles for both beginner and advanced webcomicers [not webcomickers? does "webcomicer" conjure up an image of little mice using... mice? who knows, not me] on his website at http://www.between-worlds.com/tutorials/

Yes, I'm an editor in RL, how could you tell...

ETA: Google likes the -k- (webcomicker, webcomicking)... chacun à son goût.

IVstudios · Post by **IVstudios** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 1:18 pm

Mine looks good. I would prefer the url for mine to go directly to the comic though:
http://www.ivstudios.net/inhumation instead of just http://www.ivstudios.net.

Great job putting all this together.

It looks great.

EmergencyExit · Post by **EmergencyExit** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 2:44 pm

The Emergency Exit and SuperFreaks ones look fine, though we normally make the f capital but it's not a big deal. Nice table of contents.

Dr Legostar · Post by **Dr Legostar** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 3:33 pm

cortland wrote:I'm wrapping up the book, and I'd like everybody who's in the book--sponsors and contributors alike--to take a quick look at how I have your names, URLs, and comic titles laid out in the book on the table of contents page and elsewhere. PLEASE take a quick look and double-check to see if I spelled your name correctly and got the URL right, because after tomorrow it's going to be locked in stone. Note I have only a few pages of the book posted here to save space and keep certain comics secret until the book is published in May.

Thanks, guys! I can't wait to get this thing done!

http://www.cornstalker.com/cartoons/fcbd-contents.pdf

god damnit, cort! i've had some bad misspellings of my name in the past but my name is NOT spelled MATT SUMMERS! and Pimpette's name is not spelled MICHELLE MAYO! also our comic is not at ttg.comicgenesis.com, neither is col's.... jesus, this thing is LITTERED with wrong information, half the comics say the url it ttg.comicgenesis.com or aldus.comicgenesis.com, a bunch of this stuff you should have caught before bringing it up for us to do the final check.

Keffria · Post by **Keffria** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 3:36 pm

At any rate, I always appreciate extra publicity, no matter how unwarranted.

Sput · Post by **Sput** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 3:37 pm

..............cort, you might want to take some closer looks at this. some nice hard looks.

half of these are

to the max :x

Cortland · Post by **Cortland** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 4:08 pm

I please lack of sleep.

Have a new file online now, and also the cover page, for the curious.

http://www.cornstalker.com/cartoons/fcbd-contents.pdf
http://www.cornstalker.com/cartoons/fcbd-cover.pdf

Col · Post by **Col** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 4:12 pm

I approve the new version! Nice work, Cort! Thanks for all the hard work you're putting into this!

Komiyan · Post by **Komiyan** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 4:17 pm

Lookin' good, just that you still have Shenanigan as being by Matt and Michelle still, and Kat's comic is listed as Knights of Vesteria...

Pimpette · Post by **Pimpette** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 5:31 pm

It's very pretty and nicely put together... although it seems to be riddled with errors here and there.
I'm in a picky mood tonight... so we'll see what I can catch.

inside cover wrote: It's the same one KeenSpot uses, loaded with features to make it easy to custom design your own website with useful tags to make it easy for people to read your comic.

This is a horribly awkward sentence.
I might suggest
"It is loaded with features to help you customize your own website, and to make it easy for people to view your comic."

On the content..

I would suggest that you stop alternating between "~.comicgen.com" and "~.comicgenesis.com". Pick one and be consistent (the short one may be best, people will remember it better).
Komi already said it, but yeah: Kat doesn't do KoV, and Net&Michelle don't do Shenanigan.

My main beef with the "Joining the Fun" bit is that it jumps back and forth when referring to ComicGenesis (ie "our mascot" "legal mayhem for them").

page 7, Joining The Fun wrote: ...That's where you link your webcomic to your new forum identify.

I think that was supposed to be "identity".

And I like your logo, Joel!

So yeah, that's what I caught.
Looks fine, aside from the errors.

IVstudios · Post by **IVstudios** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 5:52 pm

Oop, one other little nit picky thing on mine, there is no comma between my name and suffix (The 'IV' part) It's "Carl A. Schulz IV" not "Carl A. Schulz, IV"

Prettysenshi · Post by **Prettysenshi** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 5:55 pm

Cort, about the pdf, with the sponsors, could you change it from PrettySenshi, to Inemesit Imoh? Thankers, I'd appreciate it. And great work everyone. It looks slick.

Sput · Post by **Sput** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 6:41 pm

hehe. *pats cort* muuuuch better. i sorta figgered you were sleep drunk.

the only thing i catch this time is that knights of vesteria isn't by kat-- She does Distant Eras. :]

Hooray, the

has retreated.

Dr Legostar · Post by **Dr Legostar** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 6:43 pm

Komiyan wrote:Lookin' good, just that you still have Shenanigan as being by Matt and Michelle still, and Kat's comic is listed as Knights of Vesteria...

yes.. still big typo on my name there...

Rkolter · Post by **Rkolter** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 9:04 pm

Cort - Wednesday I will do one more sweep of the donators and get their names in to you.

Please consider adding verbage like, "... and all the people who donated after the time we had to submit the list of donators to be published." Since we will still need several hundred in donations from charitable people to pull this off.

Hogan · Post by **Hogan** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 5:19 am

Heh... if you happen to find an 'ø' in your keyboard, you could substitute the 'oe' in my name Cort, otherwise it's the perfect legal international way of spelling it

Payday today, need to donate...