Original Comic Artwork

September 7th, 2008

From this point forward, I will publish all new comics and artwork on this blog to my Google Code project:

http://code.google.com/p/stuffthathappens/

I plan to create all future comics using Inkscape, which uses SVG as its native format. I will add the original SVG files and the PNG bitmaps to the Google Code Subversion repository.

The Creative Commons license allows anyone to download, modify, and use these comics, provided you provide “attribution” back to me. All I ask for is a link back to my blog.

What about Old Comics?

I have no plans to add old comics to this new project. Up to this point, I’ve used Xara, which has a proprietary file format and does not export well to SVG. Furthermore, Xara has no OSX version. I plan to use this Subversion project for all future artwork.

Off to the Races

Yesterday’s NOWOPR comic is in the repository now. Have fun!

Posted on Sunday, September 7th, 2008 at 9:48 pm in Comics.

Mario Aquino Says:

Bravo! This is a great idea. Thanks for putting the source out there.

September 7th, 2008 at 10:42 pm

Peter Neubauer Says:

Hi there,
great move, but how are we supposed to conveniently subscribe to a RSS feed of the new stuff then? Is one supposed to do svn up every now and then?

/peter

September 8th, 2008 at 1:44 am

Axel Says:

Same problem for me as for Peter: I also read stuffthathappens also only via feeds. I couldn’t find any feed for the Google Code project, although similar systems like Trac or SourceForge offer that.

If Google Code doesn’t offer such feeds, I see several options: You always post new comics in the blog as before (no work for us, hehe or you setup something at http://www.rsspect.com/ to parse the Google Code website. Another possibility would be to creates a feed for it a http://feed43.com/.