Gallery: Life’s a Witch

Life's a Witch

Zelda Johnson is just your average suburban hausfrau, struggling with parenting, dieting, housework, and all the problems of modern life. Except, of course, for the fact that Zelda is a practicing witch (complete with pointy hat and black robes) whose friends include fairies and werewolves.

Life’s a Witch, a lighthearted look at fantasy characters integrating into the modern world comes courtesy of Samantha Wikan, one of stripShow’s earliest adopters. Here’s a small art sample:

Life's a Witch

Life's a Witch

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About stripShow Sandbox Options

One feature I may have overlooked from the announcement of stripShow 2.1 is one some users may find confusing. I thought I’d mention it here for clarification.

stripShow Sandbox now has an Options page. Here it is:

The options page for the stripShow Sandbox template

The options page for the stripShow Sandbox template

Here, you can configure a few options for the stripShow Sandbox template, without having to edit your child theme’s files.  You can rename or remove the blog header, for example.

One thing that has changed significantly is that you can now configure your column layout from this page. Previously, every stripShow Sandbox child theme had to import a stylesheet like so:

@import url('../stripshow_sandbox/library/styles/columns/3c-b.css');

What this means, practically, is that if you have such a line in your child theme, you should remove it, and use the dropdown menu in stripShow Sandbox to select your column scheme. The line has already been removed, in 2.1, from the included child themes and from stripShow Sandbox itself.

I look forward to using this option in the future to include more layout possibilities.

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stripShow 2.1 released!

stripShow 2.1 badgeI’m inordinately pleased to announce the release of version 2.1 of stripShow, the all-in-one solution for running a webcomic on WordPress!

New features in 2.1 include:

  • COVER YOUR SHAME! If you happen to draw a comic that is sometimes just nasty, filthy, disgusting… well, we don’t judge. But sometimes people shouldn’t be browsing that sort of thing from work, and for the benefit of those readers, creators can now cover NSFW strips with a cover image that must be clicked on before the real comic is displayed.
  • CUSTOMIZE YOUR THUMBNAILS! Now, if you’d rather thumbnail images were something a little more personalized than just a scaled-down version of the comic, you can stick alternate images in a subfolder of your comics folder and show those instead.
  • SE HABLA FRANCAIS, MEIN FREUND! stripShow is now fully internationalized, and ready to be translated into all the languages of our big blue planet!

Obviously, all the great features that made stripShow the finest solution for WordPress webcomics, such as searchable, formatted transcripts, nested, low-maintenance storylines,  easy upload of comics, and an awesome theming template, are still present, and ready to propel your webcomic into the 2010s.

Download stripShow today from the WordPress Plugin Directory today, or visit our support site and join our community!

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Old forum posts are back!

Because I’m a little obsessive about thoroughness, I spent the day (yes, the whole day) figuring out how to get all the old forum users and posts into the new forum. The good news is, it worked! Now all the old support issues and announcements are there for all to see.

If you had an old forum account, and you ever posted, you have an account here on this blog now. However, you don’t have a password. So what you need to do is hit “Login” (either on the sidebar, or on the forum page) and it will take you to the login page. Hit “Forgot password” and it will send you an email with a link — follow that link, and you’ll get a second email with a temporary password. Use that password to log in, then change it in the Profile page.

Since I did this conversion myself, I expect some things may be a bit wonky. Let me know if you have any issues. Private Messaging works, or if not, email bhawkins AT monkeylaw DOT org.

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New Forum

I have created a brand-new forum for stripShow support… well, OK, not totally new. All the posts and user accounts are still there. But now it’s located right here on this site. So if you have any support questions, feature requests, or other concerns, come in and post about it!

Oh, and yeah, I know right now it’s kind of ugly. Trying to integrate phpBB and WordPress isn’t all that simple. I’ll have it worked out soon.

UPDATE: OK, about the whole keeping-the-existing-posts thing? Uh… well, not so much. The phpBB system I installed had some wonky weirdnesses with WordPress that I didn’t feel like dealing with, so I installed Simple:Press instead. So if you want to post in the forums, you’ll need to register. Sorry.

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stripShow Sandbox Diagram

To aid in modifying stripShow Sandbox, through the addition or removal of actions, I have created a reference diagram showing the important structures at play in stripShow Sandbox.

You can download a copy of this diagram in PDF format here.

stripShow Sandbox Diagram

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Seeking stripShow sites for Gallery

If you’re running stripShow, I’d like to hear about it! And if you’d like to have your site included in the stripShow Gallery (which isn’t much of a “gallery” at the moment, just two comics), please send me the following information:

  • Your name
  • Your comic’s name
  • Your comic’s URL
  • A brief description of what your comic is about
  • A sample strip; put your best foot forward!
  • A 128×128 icon representing your comic. This is optional, but if you don’t provide one, I’ll make one, and I suck.

Eventually, I will have some kind of form to upload this stuff, but in the meantime, you can shoot an email to bhawkins AT monkeylaw DOT org, and I’ll be happy to add you to the gallery.

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Gallery: Borderline Boy

icon_borderlineFrom Jackson Ferrell comes Borderline Boy, a comic about the post-collegiate transition that hits pretty close to home for those of us who’ve gone through it.

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Gallery: How to be Bulletproof

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Kirt Burdick’s How to be Bulletproof is a tough-as-nails, action-packed supernatural thriller in graphic novel format. Follow the adventures of Joe “Bulletproof” Blue, Sailor Mick, and cast of colorful lowlifes in a tale of revenge that transcends life and death!

How to be Bulletproof screenshot

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stripShow 2.0 released!

Version 2 BadgeI’m pleased to announce the release of version 2.0 of stripShow, the all-in-one webcomics package for WordPress!

Overview

stripShow 2.0 includes a WordPress plugin providing easy-to-use administration pages for the uploading or importing of comics, and an all-new theme framework for creating your own stripShow themes.

stripShow operates by associating comic files (usually graphic images) with blog posts. Comic posts are kept separate from regular blog posts, which can continue to be used as normal.

stripShow is not just a theme — it’s a complete, all-in-one webcomics solution. Included with stripShow is the powerful new theming package, stripShow Sandbox, which provides a basic theme for webcomics display. You can easily create child themes which can customize the look of your site. Elements of stripShow Sandbox can be removed or customized to your liking in your child themes without ever modifying the parent theme. Never worry about theme upgrades destroying your work again!

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