Yet Another Web Comic (YAWC)

A mere year after I put up the Comicpress-powered site, I have finally moved all of my comics over.  The entire catalog of 324ish comics (and growing!) is now live on the site!  You may notice I have removed the archive link: It no longer serves any purpose.  Now all of my comics are on the current site and are fully indexed.

I spent the day writing code to grab all of the useful information from the old site (237 pages worth), parse that in to database gobbledygook, and automagically rename all the old image files properly.  It was a length process that took me a few hours, but it saved me days of manually porting this information over.

A fair amount of testing went in to this effort, but I may have missed things.  I want to encourage you to dive in to the archives, check out old favorite comics, and let me know if you notice anything weird.  Also, tell all your friends that my site is finally complete, and let’s see if we can’t get more eyeballs on the archive to make sure it is correct.

The only thing that should really be of note is that the comics before 237 are not organized in to story lines.  This is because my old site was poorly organized and often not broken out in to story lines, so I’ll have to go do that by hand.

I won’t be extending deadlines this time, so I wanted to remind everyone that Christmas card orders close on 4 December.  That’s next Friday!  At $1  a card and $5 shipping, it’s a really good deal, and I even have prices on a complete card service, from print through mailing to your prepared list.  You never have to touch them!  It’d be a shame, as they’re fantastic cards, but who am I to judge?  Head on over to the Merch page to check them out.

Since it seems a whole bunch of other comics just opened orders for Christmas cards this week, I am going to run a second printing of my older cards, available for purchase.  Please place all orders by 4 December, and I will ship on 7 December.  The following page contains more details:

http://www.yawcomic.com/merch/

Crackers, it’s Nov 6th already!  I wanted today to be the cutoff for ordering Christmas cards, but I didn’t plan ahead.  A lack of planning on my part should not become a problem to you, so I will accept orders for Christmas cards through midnight Sunday EST.  This will allow me to print them and get them shipped next week, in plenty of time to send them out for the holidays.  Remember, this is it: If you were waiting around for any reason, now is your last chance to get a set of cards for this holiday season:   http://www.yawcomic.com/merch/

If you’re interested in any of the Christmas card designs on the Merch page, speak up: I won’t be taking orders for much longer.  I anticipate a print run next weekend, which means I’ll be closing orders by next Friday, perhaps earlier.

I have decided that, when it is convenient and makes sense, I will offer merchandise.  These are limited-time offers that I will only extend when I have a product I am proud of, I am sure I can deliver it in a satisfactory time frame, and the circumstances all make sense.

Christmas is coming up, and I have two Christmas card designs under my belt.  I am currently working on the third, and decided that I would dust off the old designs and offer them up for sale.  If you’re interested, check out the Merch page.  I want to get these to y’all in time to address and send them out, so if you’re interested at least say so because I will cut off ordering at some point, most likely near the end of October.  Check ‘em out!

Yes, I know, no comic.  It hasn’t been high on the priority list, and my motivation has nestled itself into an all-time low.  However, I have on occasion made time to write about some of the electronic gadgets I’ve been working on, and that is now available in the Gadgets section of the site.  I highly recommend you check them out, and one of the pages even has a link to a video of a project in action!  I’m mildly excited about this new section, and you should embrace it with the indifference I have shown.  I’m not sure what’s wrong with me, they’re neat projects, but at least my laziness will not keep you from them any longer.

Sorry, y’all. I’ve been busy straightening out a good bit of household upheaval and frankly have been a bit down on myself and my work. I’m just not in the mood to cartoon right now, and since it’s a totally voluntary effort I’m putting it aside for the rest of the week. If I feel better, I’ll return next Wednesday.

For those who have been waiting, that includes updates to my gadgets page. I’m actually a bit in to working on some of that stuff right now, I just don’t want to be working on this site. It was a stretch to convince myself to log in today and say I wouldn’t be updating for a week; I certainly won’t be loitering to update gadgets just yet.

The comic is a hobby of mine, and as such I update it whenever it is feasible for me to waste the time necessary to draw a comic.  Drawing is not my only time sink, however, and I’m starting a new section of the site to showcase some of my other work.  Over the coming weeks, I will be fleshing out the Gadgets section visible on the top menu bar.   Feel free to ask questions or request specific articles as I introduce more pages to the section.  I have included a walkthrough of my first surface-mount soldering attempt, which will probably not interest most of you but it will give you an idea of what I do.  Over the coming week, I plan on putting up a long overdue teardown of a solar-powered walkway light available at your local Wal-Mart (for all your creative engineering needs) and a lot of information, including pictures, of the costume I built for Dragon*Con.  With any luck, I’ll figure out these YourTubes things and even post some videos, but don’t hold your collective breath.  Please check it out and let me know what you think.  I will try to do this in addition to comic updates, but if I am not capable of producing a comic I will at least try to give you something here.

I’m sure you all know David Reddick of Legend of Bill (http://www.legendofbill.com).  You’d better, since I pimp his comic regularly here.  A while back I did a guest strip for him.  Now his first book is close to having enough pre-orders, a book which will have my guest strip in it!  There’s a bunch of strips by David and other talented artists, too, but that’s just gravy.  This will be the first book I have ever been printed in, and in celebration of that milestone, I have the deal of a lifetime for you:

If you pre-order his book, not ONLY will you get a book that has one of my strips in it, I will also send you (at no charge) a sketch!  Just get me a receipt of some sort, and I’ll ship it out.

BUT WAIT!  THERE’S MORE!  You get the book with one of my strips.  You get a piece of art from me.  I’ll also throw in a whole bunch of strips by David Reddick, a $100 value, free with purchase!

Order now, I only have so much time to draw and so much money to spend on postage.  I reserve the right to withdraw this offer, of course, since it’s totally out of my pocket.  Let’s put David over the top and get those books shipping!

The Legend of Bill Collection 1

http://th3rdworld.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1&products_id=32&zenid=f1bikm7p53sq1ktv7j900mfig5

The Legend of Bill Collection 1 — Artist Edition

http://th3rdworld.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1&products_id=33