2021 in Review

Happy new year! I’ve been sharing monthly status updates on this blog for the last few months. And I’ve had a lot to report, although most of the work I’ve been doing has been invisible to everyone else. You can get the details from these posts: Comic Rocket Updates October progress report November progress report …

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November progress report

I’ve continued working hard this month to bring Comic Rocket up to current standards. I also rolled out some subtle new features to improve the quality of comic listings and protect reader privacy. In this post, I’ll describe all that effort in detail. As a reminder, you can help keep this work going by supporting …

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October progress report

As I mentioned in my Comic Rocket Updates post a couple weeks ago, most of the work I’m doing right now should be invisible to everyone else. That makes it the worst kind of work. If I do it right, it looks like I didn’t do anything. If I get it wrong, people will see …

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Comic Rocket Updates

I’ve been the only person keeping Comic Rocket running since 2016. For a variety of reasons, I’ve had a difficult time doing any new work on the site since then. One important reason is that in 2012 and 2013 we tried putting in every feature we could think of. The result is a mess behind …

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13 webcomic creators list webcomics you should know

A week ago I asked Twitter: Who in webcomics do you think really deserves more attention than they get? Webcomic creators offered great answers, demonstrating that webcomic creators love reading webcomics just as much as the rest of us do! The most comprehensive answer came from webcomic creator Chris Williams: oh god, everyone imo I …

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Unshelved, the library webcomic, now on Comic Rocket!

I’m really pleased to report that Comic Rocket can now index the canonical webcomic about life in a library, Unshelved! My mom has a Master’s degree in Library Science, so this is a topic of personal interest to me; but besides that, Gene and Bill have been putting well-developed characters in interesting situations since 2002, …

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Kickstarter for Boston Metaphysical Society offers… tea!

I’ve never seen tea as a Kickstarter reward before, have you? The novelty was too much for me to resist, not to mention that of course I’d like to see how the Boston Metaphysical Society comic is going to turn out. Check out Madeleine Holly-Rosing’s creation, Boston Metaphysical Society. It’s a steampunk/paranormal story set in …

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A Mad Tea-Party concludes—with a Kickstarter

Props to Jonathon Dalton for completing A Mad Tea-Party, which he began in 2004, and best of luck on Jonathon’s Kickstarter for getting it printed! Check out Jonathon’s essay, “Writing the Future As It Happens“, on the challenges of serializing sci-fi stories. And if you haven’t read “A Mad Tea-Party” yet, give it a shot. …

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