Logomacy
Between logomachy and logomancy . . .

I’m planning on getting back into doing comics, to give myself a creative outlet.  One minor problem: my wife glommed onto the Macbook Pro that I used to use for these things.  She’d be willing to loan it back on an as-needed basis, but I know myself well enough to know that if whenever I wanted to sit down and do some art I’d first have to go get the laptop and bring it up, plug in the monitor and so on, I’d never get around to it after the first couple of times.  So instead I’m planning on reproducing my environment on my Vista box.  My Wacom tablet works, no problem, and I’ve just downloaded trial versions of Comic Life and Corel Draw Painter (which is up to 11, from version 10 last time I touched any of this stuff).  I’ve got 30 days to decide whether I like the Windows versions enough to pay for them, or want to try to find something else.  As an added bonus, I’ve just stuck a Seagate 1TB external drive on this machine, so I have plenty of backup space.  I lost way too many of the original files for my last comic when my prior Macbook Pro was stolen.

Now I just have to decide little details, like what’s the comic going to be about, the format, and so on.  One thing I have decided is I want to actually draw it instead of using mostly photos of Legos, but I haven’t yet decided whether to do a gag-a-day, a continuity strip, or what.  My wife says I should do something funny, so even if I do a continuity strip it’ll be humorous as best as I can make it.  I’ll probably set it up as its own WordPress blog on this site, using the ComicPress theme.  I do still have a Webcomics Nation account, but I kind of like the idea of being in control of the whole thing…and it’s not like the bandwidth is going to kill me, even if it turns out to be more popular than my wildest dreams.  Ok, maybe in my wildest dreams, it would require me moving it to Webcomics Nation for free hosting, but those are some pretty wild dreams for somebody who doesn’t have much more than an idea that he wants to do a comic and there are certain genres he enjoys.