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Grrl Power #75 – At least sell ArcNuggets

January 23rd, 2012 | by DaveB

I had this page written, penciled and inked when I realized I forgot to include Maxima explaining the “Archon” on the building. Luckily I had a big establishing shot of the lobby which you can’t see anymore. Well it’s not the last time we’ll be here I imagine. Plus now I can touch it up a little since my architectural skills are slightly less advanced that a kid with Duplo blocks. Not lego mind you. Duplo.

Getting all this explanation out of the way is going to make for a short press conference, or at least to the reader, since I’ll be able to sum it all up with a “One Explanation Later” caption. That actually makes for better pacing though, so let’s tell everyone who’s a new reader by then that I planned it that way.

Oh and Maxima covering up her face with her salute? That’s called poor planning. Learn from my mistakes. Also, drawing people salute is surprisingly challenging. Especially from that angle.

I know Sydney’s head looks weird on the first panel and I forgot ‘co-ed’s’ glasses, I’ll fix that.

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State of the union comic

January 3rd, 2012 | by DaveB

First off, thanks for all the topwebcomics.com votes, (vote link) we got the comic into the top 10, which is amazing since the guys who usually dominate that position offer a post incentive with every comic that goes up, usually nudie pics of their female characters. Especially Spying with Lana, which you should check out if you’re not at work and enjoy well drawn naked people.

I saw some other webcomicers on twitter post some year over year stats, so I thought I’d do the same. I’ve got roughly 5X the traffic since this time last year, so thanks for sticking around everyone. Still, a year ago the comic was only a few months old so while my current traffic level isn’t bad for a relatively young comic, it’s not something I’m going to be making a living off any time soon. So my goal for this year is to get another 5x increase in traffic. I don’t know how realistic that is, but I really would like to escape the cube farm and do this for a living, which of course means more comics each week, so at some point I’ll probably add some ad banners to the page (I know, ads suck but I won’t allow any annoying flash ads or any epilepsy inducing gifs) and that’s not going to pay my mortgage, but at some point my host will probably say “Hey I know we said ‘unlimited’ bandwidth, but… here’s a bill anyway” so the ads might defray that cost and maybe even pay for some advertising of my own.

I don’t have a donate button or any other source of income off the page yet, except for a few T-shirt sales… I should really link the store at some point… but if you enjoy the comic and want to help out, for now the best thing you can do is share it with your friends, facebook, twitter, whatever, and hopefully people will find it and decide to stick around.

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Webcomic Forums

September 15th, 2011 | by DaveB

Edit: I went with the 910CMX forum. I was just asking around in case they weren’t adding new comics. Thanks for the suggestions.

So I’ve been getting a ton of comments on each page for a while now, after a day or two it gets a little hard to scroll through them all and track a conversation. It’s a nice problem to have but it might be time to look into adding a forum. I’ll keep the comments of course, but I’d like to minimize the number of additional usernames and passwords people have to deal with and try and get into an existing webcomic forum (assuming they’re even accepting new comics.) I know of the 910CMX forums, but that’s it off the top of my head. Any other good ones I should check out?

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