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The rise of ComicPress as a comics CMS and its requirement that every page be attached to a corresponding blog entry (I think, it's a while since I played with it) is not necessarily a good thing; I don't want to read a comic book with running commentary beneath every page about how this is foreshadowing something, how the production of this page went haywire, or whatever. It's like having the artist sitting there watching you read it over your shoulder.

After going through just nine pages of a comic that did this I want to say "Shut up and let your art speak for itself!".

There's a place for this sort of thing - look at the detailed endnotes in a collection of Finder - but I don't think it's right there beneath every single page.

also, ComicPress now has a WP plugin that claims to make uploading easier; perhaps I will take a look at it. My comic-scheduling extensions to the gallery package I use for my site are pretty functional, though. And it doesn't make me name my images by date like CP did last I looked.

Date: 2009-03-01 03:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kamenkyote.livejournal.com
I agree. While community is nice, it does bog things down if one just wants to read the comic. And readers are what we're after. If there's a place to comment at the end of a chapter, perhaps that would be ok? Or a message board -somewhere else- might be ok.

I like the way Kidjutsu did Fite and its comics. Their reader works well, and the comic looks better without all that clutter:

http://www.kidjutsu.com/title/fite

Date: 2009-03-01 03:48 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] shatterstripes.livejournal.com
Yeah. Less is more. Give me the work with the least clutter around it you can get away with.

Hell, we're still debating if we're going to have a message board for Absinthe. We have some silly alternative ideas that we may or may not implement...

Date: 2009-03-02 04:31 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ultraken.livejournal.com
That's really nice—it's more like holding a comic in your hands than reading a comic on a web page.

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