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Remastered Guðrún ends today

2006-10-30T15:40:12Z

The remastered edition of Guðrún ends over on the Chronicles of the Witch Queen site today.

As far as I know, it's still very rare for any webcomic to be remastered, though reruns with commentary have occurred in a few places. Guðrún was the story with which I finally got serious about publishing Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan online six years ago. But that doesn't mean I immediately got it all right;the digital cleaning, lettering and resizing were done very clumsily and no high-res masters were kept from which I could re-do the work. So I eventually bit the bullet and re-scanned the whole thing from the original art. The new version looks a lot better, even though, in many ways, it's "rawer" - there is less tinkering with the analog art than there was the first time around, simply because it's no longer needed to make tiny scans presentable or preserve bandwidth.

I'll still need to replace the image files on the Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan site. To do that, I'll go back to the master files, cut the pages in half and upload those half-pages at a width of 800 pixels instead of the 600(-ish; getting a consistent width was one thing I did wrong at the time) pixels wide images the site has now, so that the originally-intended presentation is left intact and any pages containing comments can be preserved. That's a bit of a chore, but I'll get around to it eventually.

Potentially the best thing about the project: I now have lettered master files that are suitable for print, if anyone's interested...

Roadworks Goblins

2006-08-24T07:01:06Z

To fill time while buffering up on the next Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan story, I'm running a short story set in the present day at rocr.net. Roadworks Goblins is a tale of the hidden dangers that stalk the city of Groningen (NL) by night. All-night drinking comes at a price....

Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan back on Modern Tales as a free comic

2006-07-19T19:27:45Z

I've been posting this to shameless_plugs on LJ but thought some of you here might want to know as well.

Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan's archives at Modern Tales are now free as Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan has become part of Modern Tales' Strip Lounge. Nearly all of the comic's 15-year run to date can now be read at Modern Tales.

I left Modern Tales almost a year ago, but it turns out it's one of those setups where you can leave but never actually be gone. Like being a musician in Fairport Convention. I never deleted my archives there, simply because I couldn't bear to have my data entry work destroyed, and when Joey Manley announced soon after that he was going to make most of the content on the site free under non-exclusive terms, I eagerly agreed to be part of that. This week, the new version of Modern Tales went live, and I spent a bit of time getting the archives back up to date with the main site. And here it is! Table of Contents

Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan will continue to be primarily published at rocr.net, but starting with the next storyline, it will update simultaneously on its main site and on Modern Tales again.

Guðrún remasters at Webcomicsnation

2006-06-05T13:17:23Z

The first, introductory, page of the Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan storyline Guðrún is now up over on the Chronicles of the Witch Queen website. The whole 64-page story will run there in three full-page installments a week, on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.

Guðrún is the story of Duchess Guðrún's kidnapping in Iceland. Tamlin's gang join up with the infamous Baron von Fieffelfalsfaffel to find out what exactly has happened and rescue the Duchess. Guðrún was previously published on the Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan website and is one of the most popular storylines in that series. The quality of the scans, however, left a lot to be desired, so to take care of that, here's a new, revised and enlarged edition.

Courtly Manners now free

2006-05-29T21:45:12Z

Today, I made two of my webcomics series on Webcomicsnation, Courtly Manners and Courtly Manners 2: The Unicorn Race free for everyone to read. These were the last of the comics I'd originally created for Modern Tales that were still behind a subscription wall, so this represents my farewell to subscriptions as a business model.

The comics themselves are light romps; Geir Strøm, who wrote the second story, sees them as the comics equivalent of summer popcorn movies, which works for me. See Kel and Krakatoa cause maximal embarrassment to themselves and others in the genteel setting of the Witch Queen's castle, and see the Queen not be amused!

Me me me me me me

2006-05-19T13:14:59Z

I am here for the wank. Go to my blog for reading my opinions, my livejournal for life-related stuff and silly memes, my DeviantArt site for pretty pictures, guaranteed free of Inflation Fetishism, my Last.fm hub for more than you wanted to know about my musical taste, and most importantly my webcomic site for medieval fantasy-based entertainment and other graphic storytelling.

I'm sure I forgot something - some sort of Web 2.0 thingammybob that I've got an account at. But I can't remember right now.

Don't expect me to write much stuff here, in any case. Maybe I will one day get around to writing that Blackmore/Gillan slashfic I've been promising people, but that's just about it.