FATE DEFERRED
KSBD will update Thursday this week. Sorry for the inconsistency! Big things brewing plotwise.
I want to run it out there – I’ll run a proper poll of some kind – would anyone be interested in possibly reading KSBD in an episodic format? I realize the page per week thing can be a little slow for people. I rationalize updating at this pace because you can always come back and read the site after a few updates. However, some people may prefer due to the format of the comic that I drop an 8-10 page ‘issue’ (for example, we’re currently in issue 3) every two months or so.
I’ve thought about running an issue-based archive page where you can do just this. Any input you’d like to give, I’d love to have it.
Also for all you wordpress savants, I’d like to find a way to show the big splash pages (throne and hell 71 specifically) in full size. Right now they’re about 2/3 size and hard to read. WordPress is automatically resizing them and I can’t seem to find a workaround (this is a modified comic easel theme, for those who are wondering).
Catch you tomorrow!
No, personally I prefer a page a week.
I prefer one page at a time – usually when comics pace updates for an entire issue I forget what was happening two months before.
I’d prefer episodic. Your world has about a billion moving parts, and it’d be easier to follow if we could see them all working together in those issues rather than page by page.
i like the 1 page a week, it ties in nicely to my other reading habits, and works well with an RSS reader
Page a week, easily. If I want to get everything in a big burst, I can always just go back and read the archive, and I get a lot more enjoyment from having the steady drip–there’s a lot to digest in every page. It’s also much easier to remember this way.
Plus, the comments on the comics are their own little fantastic world, and I feel like we’d lose a lot of that if pages were released in batches, in part to people forgetting about the comic, in part because people just aren’t going to be as inclined to comment on anything but the very latest page.
more than a week or two between updates and people start to forget what’s going on
I much prefer the single page constant updates! People who prefer to have multi-page issues can just ignore site updates for a month or so, and then BAM! To them, it’s as if it IS an entire issue released.
You should figure out what works best for you. Since you are the one making the comic and making it available for everyone to read It comes down to what time frame which best suits your schedules.
It does seems however the large majority of the readers prefer weekly updates. Seems to be the way most webcomics opt out to do anyhow and it works well.
It seems that most people – including myself – forget too much of the plot between issues for it to be a good format. However, if weekly is too heavy of a schedule for you, you could always consider a bi-weekly schedule. That could be a good compromise.
My own comic Decrypting Rita uses a custom WordPress theme and the Comic Easel plugin. I have individual URLs for each page, with comments on it, but it’s REALLY much better read as chapters, and so the primary presentation is pages with individual chapters in them.
The theme I use is NOT based around modifying the Comic Easel theme, so it’s pretty hard to share stuff based on it.
Like you, some pages of my comic can take a good long while to do, and one page really isn’t necessarily a Satisfying Unit Of Story. So my basic philosophy here is “present the comic as chapters, have a feed of individual pages as I draw them for the truly committed”.
I could probably adapt the full chapter view to the basic Comic Easel theme for you, though who knows when I’ll find the time. I’ve been meaning to do it for ages. If you want to try and get your hands dirty with PHP and make one yourself, you’ll need to make a “custom taxonomy view” template; you’ll want it to be called ‘taxonomy-chapters.php”. Drop an email to egypt@urnash.com and I’ll send you mine as a model, at the very least.
I’m also using the “Custom Taxonomies Menu Widget” for the chapter nav list, as Comicpress’ own chapter nav functions only want to link to the first page of a chapter.
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ALSO some unsolicited general WP+CP advice: install the ‘Jetpack’ plugin and turn on ‘Photon’ for MUCH faster image loads.
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I dunno about the splashes. Mail me a link to them and I can maybe have a look, I’m too damn lazy to go slowly digging through the whole comic looking for them today. Just flew back from a con yesterday and I’m still basically dead.
I’m not familiar with Comic Easel myself, but assuming you still just post pages by creating a new post and inserting media:
Go to Settings -> Media
Make sure ‘Large Size’ is set as big or bigger than your actual image.
Then insert the media into your post, selecting “Full Size”, and it should be massive!
Making it still fit center in the theme is another thing though and requires some CSS additions.
When I was playing around with it I worked on a maximum comic width of 1500px, which to accommodate you need to:
Change the width of #page #header and #comic-wrap to 1500px
Then add “width:980px;margin-left:260px;” to #sidebar-menubar and #subcontent-wrapper
If it doesn’t work or you don’t actually post comics that way send me an email and I’ll try to figure it out, either the email here or at my site is fine.
Something is vastly preferable to nothing. After several weeks of not-checking it, I might forget the existence of your comic. Your audience waiting on tenterhooks for the next weekly update is a blessing. If you give them time without it, they might overcome their addiction and move on with their lives.
Once a week minimum! I will forget this is here if you don’t update frequently and I sure as hell don;t want to forget about this one! 🙂
Haven’t we been reading this in an episodic fashion already? I’m not complaining. Just sayin’.
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