comicpress question - setting up a webcomic that already has archives

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If any of you has experience with setting up a webcomic using ComicPress, I’d appreciate your input.

I have a webcomic on ComicGenesis (nee Keenspace) called Scandal Sheet! that has several years of archived strips. It’s on hiatus right now and has been for a couple of years, but I still want to start it up again someday.

When I’m ready to do that, I thought it would be a good opportunity to migrate away from CG to some other hosting arrangement, and several webcomics I like use ComicPress (I especially like the ability to let readers comment on a strip right there on the site, instead of using a separate forum or a LiveJournal).

However, I have all those archived strips, which makes me wonder: how hard is it to bring hundreds of previous strips into CP and have everything work?

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Using my one allotted bump in hopes that someone sees this.

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I hope someone sees this too. I’ve been wondering if Khendra’s dad ever recovered from the shock of learning that that his baby girl is into bestiality.

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This was purely from a Google search, but would the ComicPress Manager plugin help?

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That’s Khin’draa, not that you would have any reason to know that after more than TWO FREAKING YEARS.

You may be interested to know that I have written and drawn about five strips beyond the most recent on on display on the website, so if you really want to know how he finally reacted, I can tell you.

(I haven’t posted them because I am determined to at least finish the current storyline even if I don’t continue beyond that point, but I’m NOT going to start and then stop again – I’ve put people through enough of that. I’ll post them only when I have the entire story arc in the can and ready to go.)

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I’m gonna bump it too…

I’ve been half thinking of trying to start a webcomic.

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I don’t know whether to ask or not, because part of the story is the art. Lemme think about it.

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That’s nice of you to say, Lynn, but I think we both know the art in “Scandal Sheet!” looks like I drew it with my feet. :^)

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I didn’t say it was GOOD art. :wink: Seriously, you did do a lot of improvement over the course of the strip, and part of the story is seeing the visuals. I will buy a graphic novel of a book that I’ve read, and find new bits to enjoy in the graphic version. For instance, I own and enjoy Foglio’s comicization (if that’s the word) of the first couple of Myth Adventure books.