Regarding that strip: I wanted to address some concerns that are repeated across dozens of e-mails, if that's OK:
- First off: Lots of you have asked if there could be specific navigation on the site just for these sci-fi strips. This is a great idea, but it's trickier than it sounds, based on the way this site is structured.
- Secondly, a lot of you have written in either loving the blue or disliking the blue...mainly for reasons of screen legibility. Legibility is a fair concern: Especially on older laptops with (fading) screens, or older eyeballs with (fading) vision, blues can be tricky. Personally, I love the *idea* of the blue, and am still tinkering with a finding a blue that'll give me a great variegation of tones, and yet still allow for sharp, 1-color printing in the (eventual) book.
- Thirdly, I have a longer-term goal of developing a second site solely for this sci-fi strip, where it will appear once a week like the marvelous strip Charles Christopher. But, two things are conspiring against me at the moment, before I can build the site. 1.) A title. Clearing a strip title through both the USPTO and a (concise) URL is proving to be tricky (as I remember well from my Mattel days). 2.) Time. I have a few things on my plate before I have time to design a new site. The spirit is willing, but the calendar is weak.
So! The short answers are: Specific Navigation? Probably not. Blue? Yes, but with modifications. New Site? Yes, but no time soon.
In the meantime, thanks again for the feedback on the new strip! I really appreciate it!
Have you tried asking David Morgan-Mar for pointers? He lives by unorthodox navigation.
I'd imagine that his setup is freely available.
Personally, I like the blue. But I was a bit uncomfortable hearing Flaco speak ...
I like the new strip and I love how much thought you are putting into this new world. It leaves a lot of possibilities open for the future.
Have you thought about creating a space for the new strip at something like saturday.sheldoncomics.com until you have a permanent name and domain? It shouldn't be difficult for your webmaster to create a subdomain and then move everything to the new site later. It would also allow you to work all the design and layout bugs out before going live in a new space.
However you put it together, I'm enjoying the new project.
'First Galactic Spanish Empire' was already taken? Or was that just the working title?
When you first mentioned it on a podcast, I really thought you were joking.
ah!
yes.
It all makes a little more sense, now ~
The Veetans certainly seem like a friendly, good-natured bunch. It's somewhat refreshing (like a cold bottle o' Inko's White Iced Tea, blueberry flavored, on a hot summer's day) to see an extraterrestrial species with a little humility & an inclination to coexist (without being too pushy about it, either).
