Archive for the ‘voting bonus’ Category

Good translations (and bad)

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

Yesterday’s Peanuts rerun had Linus posing with his blanket and saying “I am Count Dracula from Transylvania” – I saw that one translated into German, in the book “Linus – oder: Wo ist meine Schmusedecke?” There he says “Ich bin Graf Dracula aus Transylvanien” – I think in that case the translation made it even more effective!

For a translation to German (and then back to English) that’s much less effective, there’s today’s first bonus! And the second one is a sprite strip in which one of the contestants is trying to get the judge to start the second round of Rumormonger Idol. Thanks for voting!

Podcasts and Books and Things

Saturday, July 12th, 2008

Last night I attended another Sequential Artists’ Pub podcast. This week’s main topic was books – preparing things for print, where/how to have them printed, where/how to sell them, etc.

In case you’re wondering, I save the full-size 300dpi scans of my strips before I resize them and save them for the web, and I used those files when I put the first book (Get Yours Today!) together. I took the print-on-demand route for publishing, with lulu.com, so it’s printed (and sold) through them. I’ll most likely put out the second book (which I’m currently working on) that way too.

And in unrelated news, today’s voting bonuses are the rough drafts for yesterday’s strip, today’s strip, and tomorrow’s, and a bad translation of today’s strip. Enjoy!

A look sideways

Thursday, July 10th, 2008

Today’s strip is one that went through a few changes from the original rough sketch to the final one that actually went online – today’s first bonus is the original rough draft. The final panel is the only thing I wound up using from the original idea. I think the changes improved it… but if you disagree, enjoy the rough draft! Or for another take on the strip, try today’s second bonus, which is a sprite version of the strip. Thanks for voting!

More bonuses

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

TopWebcomics was having problems for the past day or so, but it’s back up now – so for today’s first bonus, there’s a bad translation of today’s strip. And for the second bonus, there’s another look ahead, with a rough draft of tomorrow’s strip. Of course, I am putting them up a little late, so by the time you see them, they may be yesterday’s strip and today’s strip. But enjoy them anyway – Thanks for voting!

Round 2…?

Monday, July 7th, 2008

Today’s new bonus is a sprite strip in which Ebb wants to know when the next round of Rumormonger Idol is going to start.

(But don’t worry… The answer is most likely not the one the judge gives!)