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I only seem to use this journal when I have something to promote...

Tuesday, 20. February 2007, 21:43:14

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... and today's no exception. Nothing against this community site; it's a fine one with some nifty posting software. I just never got into it because even when I started it, I had more or less decided I wanted my own blog on my own space, and for the community stuff I ended up getting a livejournal.

Anyway, here's what I'm promoting today!

New Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan story "Invasion".

A new Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan story, Invasion, began yesterday, both on the ROCR.net site and on the Chronicles of the Witch Queen website. The story is about an invasion of nightmarish creatures in the peaceful Clwydian town of Dungill Fens, and about the search for the faerie Abúi, who has gone missing from her home in the capital of the Gnomian Republic. It reunites Jodoque, Kel, Ragnarok, Jake and Hildegard with some of Kel's friends and family from the Gnomian Republic, last seen in The Rite of Serfdom. The action of the first chapter is set in a forest on the farthest edges of the Gnomian Republic, where humans do not go. We will see humans in the second chapter though, as well as some very strange creatures indeed...

We've got some great artwork lined up for you, and I use the word "we" advisedly. The colour work in the opening chapter is done by Drooling Fan Girl, already a recurring guest colourist for ROCR. As the chapter progresses, you'll find she's outdone herself this time. Someone should give her a paid colouring job! She doesn't want me to say that, though. The second chapter will have colour by Mravac Kid and backgrounds by my studio-mate Calvin Bexfield. I hope you'll be as blown away by his drafting skills as I was when I first saw them.

The publication of Invasion happens while that other story, Feral, is still on hiatus. We'll be, er, co-ordinating with some other webcomics later on, and as a result, Invasion has to be run on a fixed schedule. Feral isn't abandoned, though; there are 10 new installments on my hard drive, which will only have to be cleaned up, coloured, lettered and prepared for web publication.

A preview (not safe for work due to nudity, but showing off DFG's colour work very nicely:
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Remastered Guðrún ends today

Monday, 30. October 2006, 14:28:42

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The remastered edition of Guðrún ends over on the Chronicles of the Witch Queen site today.

As far as I know, it's still very rare for any webcomic to be remastered, though reruns with commentary have occurred in a few places. Guðrún was the story with which I finally got serious about publishing Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan online six years ago. But that doesn't mean I immediately got it all right;the digital cleaning, lettering and resizing were done very clumsily and no high-res masters were kept from which I could re-do the work. So I eventually bit the bullet and re-scanned the whole thing from the original art. The new version looks a lot better, even though, in many ways, it's "rawer" - there is less tinkering with the analog art than there was the first time around, simply because it's no longer needed to make tiny scans presentable or preserve bandwidth.

I'll still need to replace the image files on the Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan site. To do that, I'll go back to the master files, cut the pages in half and upload those half-pages at a width of 800 pixels instead of the 600(-ish; getting a consistent width was one thing I did wrong at the time) pixels wide images the site has now, so that the originally-intended presentation is left intact and any pages containing comments can be preserved. That's a bit of a chore, but I'll get around to it eventually.

Potentially the best thing about the project: I now have lettered master files that are suitable for print, if anyone's interested...

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Alcydia ends today

Thursday, 26. October 2006, 08:40:33

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Today, some ten years after Geir, Daniel and I first discussed the concept of having their characters and mine crossing over, Alcydia ends. If you haven't read it yet, why not go to the beginning of the story, sit back, relax and enjoy the devilish laughter rending the night over Iceland? Countess Alcydia orders you to!

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Roadworks Goblins at rocr.net

Thursday, 24. August 2006, 07:07:39

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To fill time while buffering up on the next Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan story, I'm running a short story set in the present day at rocr.net. Roadworks Goblins is a tale of the hidden dangers that stalk the city of Groningen (NL) by night. All-night drinking comes at a price....
"Roadworks Goblins" features the characters from Little Cottage in the Woods, a comic that Geir and I made several years ago.

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Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan back on Modern Tales as a free comic

Wednesday, 19. July 2006, 19:25:43

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All for one!
Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan's archives at Modern Tales are now free as Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan has become part of Modern Tales' Strip Lounge. Nearly all of the comic's 15-year run to date can now be read at Modern Tales.

I left Modern Tales almost a year ago, but it turns out it's one of those setups where you can leave but never actually be gone. Like being a musician in Fairport Convention. I never deleted my archives there, simply because I couldn't bear to have my data entry work destroyed, and when Joey Manley announced soon after that he was going to make most of the content on the site free under non-exclusive terms, I eagerly agreed to be part of that. This week, the new version of Modern Tales went live, and I spent a bit of time getting the archives back up to date with the main site. And here it is! Table of Contents
Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan will continue to be primarily published at rocr.net, but starting with the next storyline, it will update simultaneously on its main site and on Modern Tales again.

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The New Sheriff - New old Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan storyline

Monday, 19. June 2006, 20:51:06

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A "new" Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan storyline started today: The New Sheriff from 1994. It'll be the last of the 1990s storylines that I will publish on the site. In fact, in my opinion it pretty much represents the final scrape at the bottom of the barrel; there is more unpublished stuff but I think I might just burn it, and this one only just about made the cut, mostly because it introduces the Sheriff as a character. He will play a major part in the revised "King Groy" story and in the short story
"Feral" that I've got planned.

Right now, I'm not sure which of those two I'll run first, by the way. For the past few months, it's been my intention to run "King's Drama" first, because that would immediately close the gap that exists in the archives. But the writing on a crucial early scene has proven to be difficult, and it may soon become harder for me to work on a project of that size, because I just might have a 32-hour job soon. "Feral", in any case, is already largely scripted; the script already exists in at least two revisions. And it's a much more manageable story of about 20 pages.

Neither story will run immediately after "The New Sheriff", anyway. I will first rerun some material that has been published here and there on the web, and maybe some of the guest comics that I never fully transfered off the Keenspace server when I switched to using Xepher.net and WillowCMS. Those things together should tide me over through the summer without missing any updates.

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"Alcydia" starts on Webcomicsnation

Tuesday, 6. June 2006, 09:08:16

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Alcydia page 1 - click!


Alcydia by Daniel Østvold and Geir Strøm has started on the Chronicles of the Witch Queen website. It will run in full-page installments on Tuesdays and Thursdays, until finished. Alcydia is intended as a companion piece to Guðrún, which relaunched yesterday. Or vice versa. In both stories, Duchess Guðrún of Dungill Fens is kidnapped during a stay in Iceland, and it's up to Tamlin's gang and the Baron von Fieffelfalsfaffel to find and rescue her. The events as told are not exactly the same though: think of it as a crossover told from the points of view of both casts involved, with both stories being incorrect recollections of what actually happened.

Many thanks to Adam Cuerden for his editorial input, especially in the second half of the story.

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Guðrún remaster at Webcomicsnation.com

Monday, 5. June 2006, 13:19:23

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Intro to Gudrun - click!

The first, introductory, page of the Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan storyline Guðrún is now up over on the Chronicles of the Witch Queen website. The whole 64-page story will run there in three full-page installments a week, on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.

Guðrún is the story of Duchess Guðrún's kidnapping in Iceland. Tamlin's gang join up with the infamous Baron von Fieffelfalsfaffel to find out what exactly has happened and rescue the Duchess. Guðrún was previously published on the Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan website and is one of the most popular storylines in that series. The quality of the scans, however, left a lot to be desired, so to take care of that, here's a new, revised and enlarged edition.

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Some more sidecomics

Friday, 23. December 2005, 23:28:24

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I've added some more old, but re-scanned and re-processed comics to my website:

I've been rescanning other comics for my website. So far I've done:
Nightmares featuring the characters from Santa's Revenge;
When We Had Tails, a wordless, biblically-inspired comic with a script from Geir Strøm;
Tree Test a story of two individualists in conflict. Or something like that; and
The Grim Barrowman, a tale of Death stalking his prey with glassy eyes and a wheelbarrow.
I've just noticed that the final comic has some grey stains on it that I didn't see while scanning. Apologies - I'm still breaking in a new monitor at the studio. Will fix in the morning.

There is a Full Listing of all the comics I have online, which I update regularly. New material is also announced on my (non-Opera) weblog, which has a Livejournal feed if you don't like adding another bookmark. There's an RSS feed that you could add to your links in my.opera if you're so inclined.

Christmas at Blocksberg finishes tomorrow, and that will be that for Christmassy things from me and the COTWQ team until - well, until next summer, I suppose. Those things don't actually get written and drawn during Christmas, you know? I have plans for Christmas 2006...

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Christmas at Blocksberg - seasonal comic

Monday, 5. December 2005, 09:19:46

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First page of Christmas at Blocksberg. Click to see full-size
Christmas time is upon us, so over at Chronicles of the Witch Queen, we're running a seasonal story. In the dark days of December, witches ride out on a Wild Hunt! But then they like to follow that up with a cozy evening around the Christmas tree unwrapping presents. One year, though, Santa goes missing. Will Queen Elspeth find a replacement in time? And just what is Countess Alcydia up to? Read all about it in Christmas at Blocksberg! Art by Daniel Østvold; writing by Geir Strøm.

If you have a website you want to liven up with a seasonal comic, you can use our Tooncast: cut and paste <script language="javascript" src="http://www.webcomicsnation.com/tooncast.php?series=blocksberg"></script>into your website.

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I feel dirty now, but it's a good kind of dirty.

Saturday, 10. September 2005, 19:12:25

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So the Comixpedia Webcomic Wiki has been going for almost ten days. Initially I was just going to sit it out - I was planning to wait until somebody else would put up something about Rogues of Clwyd-Rhan and then put up corrections for those errors that only I was in any real position to correct. ROCR was not on the initial big list (which was mostly imported from Wikipedia), but that didn't bother me so much. After all, ROCR doesn't have the level of mass popularity where you'd expect it to be listed in a major webcomics encyclopedia immediately. If it had it in itself to get that level of mass popularity, it would have bloody well got it by 2001. No, make that 1994 - when it was a small-press comic and making its first steps on the web.

So I gave it some time. Even though the rules of the Webcomic Wiki allow it, writing an encyclopedia entry on your own work is a bit tacky, so I didn't want to do that.

But today, I saw that the list had grown to include what seemed to me like some pretty obscure webcomics (not naming names - this is not about envy). So I decided it was time I started looking after myself a little better, swallowed my pride, and wrote the entry. It's very basic - just an overview of the series' history, main cast, influences, that sort of thing. It does include something that is very important to me: the dates of the initial online publication. 1994-1996. I would really like to see that early entry into webcomics acknowledged some time. Doing it myself somehow isn't as satisfying.

Writing for that Wiki is interesting. I'll try and dig into my archives and look for some material on the very earliest webcomics, some of which are now gone and unacknowledged as well (Afterlife of Bob, anyone?)

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