The FenReview
Back in April
(10 Mar 2009)
I clearly need a hiatus. It's not a vacation, actually, but Harmless Free Radicals and my other comics will need to be put on hold until April.
There are several reasons for this that will ultimately benefit the comics.
First of all, I'm moving. Normally, I wouldn't let this interrupt my work, but it comes in combination with a couple of other things. Moving will help with the production of the comics, though, because I'm moving into a duplex with one of the other most prolific webcomic authors in Bellingham, Eric Iverson, and his wacky family!
Secondly, I'm shoring up various aspects of my business. I have a couple commissions I need to finish up and another art show to organize, but more importantly I must better organize my work flow. I've been cramped and wasting time on all sorts of weird little things, and it has brought my work nearly to a halt. Which segues nicely into my third project.
Making the comics look better. I'm on the verge of dramatically improving the look of all of my comic works, and I'm at a good transitioning point for that. I'm between scenes on Harmless Free Radicals and between pages on Par For the Core and it wouldn't look too weird if the art suddenly tightened up a bit. But I need some time to let some things percolate, and the time to experiment. Again, this is part of reorganizing my work flow, as a large part of the quality of my work has to do with the processes I use to create it.
Finally, I'm working on this thing I call the FenWISE project, or the FenWorks Intertubes Site Engine. I'm scratch building a content management system that will be able to host comics for numerous authors at once, run a forum, several blogs, any number of guestbooks, and my businesses customer accounts, all with distinct and and concise security measures that allow these services to share users if they want to while absolutely insuring the privacy of my clients.
It's actually amazingly simple and a lot of fun to work on, and it has been monopolizing my time.
My two reasons for making this thing, instead of using MoveableType or WordPress, are that I want it to be able to do everything I want it to do with no unnecessary frills and probably more importantly I want it on my resume. The tools I must create in order to make this thing will be invaluable in designing other people's websites.
The benefit to my comics, however, should be most obvious, as their websites will look and work so much better.
I'd like to thank you for your patience while I work on this transition.
Posted by Fenmere
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