Hi-
I have a strip hosted on Keenspace (http//stubbscomics.keenspace.com). As much as I appreciate their providing free hosting services in exchange for advertising and the fact that the volunteers do seem to really put a lot of effort into it, I am very frustrated with many aspects of the service (e.g. site frequently down, access to forums is nil, generally glacial pace of getting anything done etc.)

I would like to move to another host; however, I am not exactly a CGI wizard ( I think CSS is my limit in the web world) so I am at a loss as to how to automate updating the strips on a different host and even more key, setting up an automatic archive. Does anybody have some suggestions/resources for having an independent site that could be relatively maintenance free so that I could actually spend my time cartooning?

Thanks
Stubbs

Neal Von Flue's latest comic, "Directions" is a four-part formal experiment in artistic constraints, and is now available using the much-discussed Bitpass micropayment system. Each chapter costs 25 cents (or you can buy all four at once and get the artist commentary on the series included).

The Modern Tales syndication service allows webmasters to place a constantly-updating version of their favorite comics in the Modern Tales family on their own websites. At any given moment, the latest episode of the syndicated comic will appear within your own web page. Your readers will be drawn back to your website to follow the comic (which is, of course, the same reason that newspapers and magazines carry comics). Some percentage of those readers will follow the link back to Modern Tales or one of its sister sites, and eventually choose to subscribe, to gain access to the archives (which is, in turn, analogous to buying a Dilbert paperback). So: your site gets more repeat visits, and our site gets a stream of new readers who would never have found us before. Everybody wins.

Not every Modern Tales family comic is available for syndication. In some cases, the format of a particular series might make it technically inappropriate for plopping into the middle of another website. In other cases, the cartoonists themselves have not chosen to put their work on the syndication cart (the artists own all the rights to their work, and have full power to decide what happens to it). In other cases, a comic may be cancelled or completed (rendering syndication meaningless, since there will be no updates for your site).

A complete list of Modern Tales family comics currently available for syndication, as well as a little snippet of code for each comic, can be found here:

http://www.moderntales.com/tooncast_list.php

All you have to do is copy the code snippet, and then paste it into your own web page's HTML code. Note that Modern Tales syndication will not work in environments where Javascript is disallowed.

While we don't require registration or prior approval for use of this feature, our artists do appreciate knowing where and when their comics will appear. Be sure to pop us a note and let us know! We might just link to your site in our newsletter (um, no promises)!

Joey
www.moderntales.com

In case you haven't heard it's going to take a year for the Seniors of
Liberty High to get to their Senior Prom. Not to mention that the
Prom's on Mars.

Melanie’s Pop: “Why can’t you go to Honduras?”
Melanie: “Everyone voted on Mars!”
Melanie’s Pop: “What if you run out of oxygen?”
Melanie: “I'll buy more!”

"Prom On Mars" is a new, free web comic, running for just
one year at www.promonmars.com . Aptly dubbed “retro-future” by its
original venue, www.popimage.com "Prom" reads like an extra-
terrestrial “West Side Story” with the Martians being the life-forms
from the wrong side of the planet.

Melanie: “Is he cute?”
Liz: “Mel! He’s a Martian!”
Melanie: “So?”
Liz: “And he’s a food-worker!”

www.promonmars.com is the brainchild of Alex Bernstein, a screenwriter
and former stand-up comic.

“I actually missed my Senior Prom,” says Bernstein. “Most people I
know skipped it. I think I would’ve been much more enthusiastic if
it’d been held on Mars.”

www.promonmars.com contains the entire run of the strip in its
archives with new strips added weekly, until the series finale in
June, '04. Additional Prom-related pages are added monthly and,
before the year’s over, readers will even be able to vote for the Prom
King and Queen.

So, grab your virtual cummerbund and catch the next shuttle to Mars!

For more information regarding www.promonmars.com please contact

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Hi.

I've been lurking a while, registered a while ago, but I would like to take the time to introduce myself. I've been a bit of comics junkie my whole life, starting with Archie and Sonic the Hedgehog and moving on up. A few years ago I discovered few comics online which led to more and more until I am now a webcomics junkie.

I also have my own webcomic now, which is still in its infancy. If you'd like to read it, I'm really looking for any sort of feedback you can offer.
Or, just read it. Cause I like it when peeps do that.
http://www.dedjimmy.com

Anyhoo, I do enjoy the site as a whole. Solid work, folks in charge.

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Drink deep the draughts of dire dissembling and give us your weirdest work ever. It's a unique chance to reach a whole new breed of reader.


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