Archive for September, 2009
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Originally, I’d planned on some really elaborate changes to JPTM before the relaunch. I had a lot of ideas… I was gonna do them all old-school pen and ink on paper, or I was going to completely redesign the look and feel in one direction or anotherl, or I was going to switch programs and make all my strips in photoshop and color them all…
…and so for a while I’ve been messing around with all that for the last couple weeks, and I realized something… I realized that I’d originally spent a lot of time developing the look and feel of the strip, so why throw all that away?
That being said, there are going to be some changes to the strip, but they should be mostly small cosmetic changes. This is partly due to my own personal preference, and partially due to the fact that I’d forgotten how to draw my characters, so I’m just winging it. We’ll see how it all goes.
Over the next week or two I’ll be posting some more sketch book stuff while I work things out, then I’m going to pick the strip back up. It’s not going to take up where it left off, but hopefully those few of you still reading will approve.
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I know it’s not a comic, but it is an illustration with it’s artistic roots in the world of JPTM. Enjoy.
Technical Pen on Bristol Board – 12″ x 12″
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I got an email a couple days ago from my comic compatriot Jarrett Osborne of The Pursuit of Mandy and Some Day Hero.com. He was asking me how to get rid of an infestation of spam comments on a site. I explained that he’d have to activate a spam blocker then manually delete the aforementioned spam. What I didn’t realize at this point, was just what he meant by infestation. Luckily, I have admin access to his site, so while I had some down time, I went to check it out… and I realized just what a problem he had… ALMOST 200,000 SPAM COMMENTS!
Now, wordpress lets you mark these suckers as spam manually, but only about 20 at a time, and it takes like 20 seconds or so to do each page… OUCH.
Luckily, Jarrett isn’t the first person to ignore his website for a while. After a quick google search, I found a solution that involves using phpMyAdmin and a simple SQL query (in jarrett’s case, two actually) that really helped out a lot, so I thought I’d better post it. Here’s the link: How to Mass Delete Unapproved WordPress Comments
Hopefully, in the future Jarrett will keep a better eye on his websites, but at least there is hope for anyone who hadn’t realized the importance of activation AKISMET and managing spam when administrating their sites.
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It’s been a long time since I’ve posted anything. It’s been a while since I’ve drawn a JPTM comic too. I’m fixing the former now, and hopefully, the latter will eventually change. I’m not going to give any dramatic announcements or bold promises of content any time soon, but I will say that I have recently been thinking a lot about my comic, and I’ve been starting to draw the characters again, as well as working on a few new ones. I’m just posting now to let the few RSS subscribers and other random comic reading wanderers know that JPTM is not dead, and neither am I.
In the mean time though, let me give you all some updates regarding what I’ve been up to. First off, as some of my more dedicated readers and fellow cartoonists know, I work as a graphic and web designer. It’s been a cause of some embarassment that the company that I work for, Smart Marketing, and advertising, marketing, and web and print design firm operating out of Chandler Arizona, has gone website-less for the majority of the 3+ years I’ve been working there. What can I say though… It’s like a mechanic who drives a broken car… We were building other websites and marketing other companies too much to have time for our own stuff.
As you might have guessed by the link about, we’ve finally changed that. We also set up a website for a client of our who offers auto repair and maintenance out of Gilbert, Mesa, and Tempe, AZ, amongst a number of other sites I don’t feel like linking to right now.
Basically, I’ve been doing a lot of logo design, SEO, programming, and graphic design for quite a while now… and making a living doing it. You know what all this work made me realize? I really miss cartooning. Not just drawing, not doing freelance illustrations or comics for corporate clients, but I miss doing my own work. I miss weekly (if sometimes late) postings, I miss interacting with readers, and I even miss the mental effort of constantly combing through my life and experiences (sometimes desperately) for any material I can use.
I’m not giving a date, but I will say, I’m coming back.
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