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Look! New Stuff!

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In the studio is the place to be.

If you visit this site semi-regularly, you may have noticed a lot of changes over the last couple of weeks. It’s all part of my final project for Alec Longstreth’s Professional Practices class at the Center for Cartoon Studies.

Originally, I started designing a basic hub/portfolio at dakotmcfadzean.com, but I quickly realized it was redundant because most of the links directed you back here to my blog. SO! Instead I incorporated what I had into my blog, and set up a blank redirect on dakotamcfadzean.com. This will be the last major overhaul to this site until I get the time/guts to install wordpress and comicpress (or some similar thing) onto dakotamcfadzean.com, thus doing away with this subdomain silliness I’ve gotten myself into.

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Post MoCCA Bliss

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My weekend in New York was tons of fun! Sold some comics, met some nice people, and got to hang out with my CCS pals.

The downside is that it’s 1:00am, and this week’s Dailies still aren’t up. But have no fear! They will be here very soon. Once I dig myself out of all these great new minicomics and find my tablet, I’ll start posting last week’s strips.

Check back soon! Or do that RSS thing. It’s the wave of the future, I’m told.

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Daily Delay

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There is going to be a delay in posting the Daily Sketchbook Comics for the next week or two. By the time you read this, I will hopefully be en route to White River Junction, preparing to attend the Center for Cartoon Studies.

There will be many things on my mind during this time. Like where to get a mattress, how to transport a mattress without a truck, or why sleeping on a hardwood floor in an empty apartment is so uncomfortable. One thing that will also be on my mind is finding an inexpensive used scanner so that I can keep uploading the Dailies each week.

Judging from everything I’ve heard and read, the first few months at CCS will be a rigorous cartoon boot camp. I can only assume that there is some sort of obstacle course in which one has to scale a wall using only a rope, while trying to carry an open bottle of ink on one’s head and simultaneously quoting Scott McCloud.

I definitely plan on continuing the Daily Sketchbook Comics, but it may be a couple of weeks before I have the time and means to upload them. In the meantime, I may become one of those guys who spends all day tweeting his clever observational witticisms in at a cafe with free wi-fi.

I truly appreciate those who read my comics every week. This has been an enriching exercise for me, and it means the world to me that an increasing number of people visit the site each week to read about the shit I think before bed.

Check back soon for more…

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Adding new pages to the site

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After looking at some of the current Center for Cartoon Studies student sites today, I realized that it’s possible to have nested drop-down menu items on my site.

I’ve added a Shorts page, accessible via the menu. I’m hoping to add a bunch of my short comics over the next few days. I also plan on having a page for my single-page comics.

Hell, I might even add some of my Tijuana Bibles since they are responsible for all the hits I get on my old site. Seriously, there are a lot of disappointed masturbators stumbling onto my site during an otherwise pleasant Google image search session.

Anyway, please check out the two CCS thesis projects I came across today by David Yoder and Katherine Roy!

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ComicPress Get!

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Okay.

Seriously people.

I just spent the last five hours getting ComicPress up and running. For the uninitiated (like me, five hours ago), ComicPress is a WordPress theme (though that seems like an understatement), that exists to post and archive comics.

I faked my way through some CSS editing (mostly for the sake of changing colours), I edited categories, tinkered, and re-upped my Daily Sketchbook Comics.

And all I can say is, wow. I’ve never suffered so little pain with Wordpress before. I can’t believe how well this works. There are so many new possibilities for posting comics.

ComicPress is free to use, but they say that donations are welcome ($30 is suggested as an approximation of retail value) … they will definitely be getting that from me tomorrow.

In light of this wonderful new world, I am hoping to eventually add all six years of my comic strips from the Regina Leader-Post, not to mention tons of old comics currently available on my website, (which are currently very awkward to navigate).

But first, let us bow to the creators of ComicPress, our new overlords!

HOORAY!

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