Happy Independence Day!
Friday ? July 4th, 2008

Happy Independence Day!

Aaaannndddd belated Comic Anniversary and Strip #100. An welcome to the Year 2 Special Content theme: Paper Dolls!

Okay, so it’s only 1 doll and 2 outfits, so far, but this will grow over this year. The way I saw it, when the idea came to me earlier this year (yes, I’ve been planning it for a bit, time just got away from me) is the first anniversary is the paper anniversary and since this comic is run by a clotheshorse of a girl with more than a minor penchant for accessorizing, I thought paper dolls would be a fun thing for the holidays throughout the year and just whenever I get inspired to put together another doll or outfit.

(the following links are for PDFs of the different pages composited above and will open in a new window; to save simply right click (control-click for Macs) and ‘Save Link As’ to your computer)

Originally, the doll base [color, b&w] was going to a special download on May 1st but with wrapping up Script Frenzy I just couldn’t get it together in time. Then I was going to release the base along with the Safari outfit [color, b&w] at Strip #100 but June was so crazy that, you guessed it, it didn’t happen. It would have been a much more mundane outfit but I just fell in love with the Safari Scraps art that I knew it had to be the first outfit, and it was right there on Comic #99 so why not? Now, with June out of the way, deadlines all satisfied, I finally had a chance to finish up the drawings and get those two sheets plus the July 4th outfit [color, b&w] ready. Now we’re all caught up!

I really hope you enjoy these as much as I did creating them. Even if you don’t print them and actually play with them, it’s okay, but there is something very child-like and simple about paper dolls and we could all use a bit of simple fun from time to time.

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…the Need for Feed

Just an update for those who view the strip through the RSS feed. I have attempted to route/transfer the RSS subscriptions through FeedBurner so that I can see how many people are actually subscribed, etc. Hopefully I’ve done everything correctly and you should see no changes when it comes to reading the strip via whatever feedreader you choose, I even set it up so that it aliases through randomactscomics.com and not the convoluted feedburner address. I think. Let me know if anyone has any issues with the feed and I’ll try and figure out what I did wrong.

Now, if you really wanted to be wonderful helper monkeys, leaving me a comment saying you subscribe to the RSS feed will help me verify FeedBurner’s numbers, but this is purely optional. But since I found out that my daily haunting of my Google Analytics stats does _not_ include RSS subscriptions makes me really wonder how many wonderful readers I have!

I’ll be at Wrath of Con this weekend.

No, not as a vendor or artist–I didn’t think this strip was anywhere near scifi enough to fit in–but I do plan on having flyers available and maybe passing some out. It’ll be my first Con (yes, really) so might make for some interesting material for later on down the road and, well, it does involve a (brief, 2.5 hours, it’s practically in my backyard!) road trip with both Jen and Todd so anything’s possible.

Wrath of Con

Banner Delay

I think I forgot how long it takes [me] to clean up images in photoshop, etc. I decided to redo the logo in the adjusted colors but had done my old image all on one layer (don’t ever do that, btw) so then I was like, hey, sure, great time to redraw it and make some adjustments. Ugh. I hate my ideas, sometimes. Lots of time has been spent with the stylus set to eraser and my hand on the undo buttons but it’s closer. Hopefully by _this_ weekend I’ll have the new banners up, etc. But, you know, the comic is getting done and that’s what is really important.