He’s here! Our reveal for the 100 Facebook likes milestone is the last unrevealed hero: The Velveteen Rabbit. Known here as Velvy, he’s cute, he’s sweet, but he’s anything but cuddly. Check out his character page for the squishy, disease-ridden details behind Velvy, and keep looking on Fridays for the rest of his prologue!
Also, his gravatar is up and running as well as the incentive for voting on topwebcomics.com this week is a sketch of Velvy!
Here ye, here ye! Extree! We have a new Extras page up at the top menubar. On that page to start with we have every gravashard (shards gravatars) is up and anyone can put it on their gravatar account and use it wherever. Just be sure to tell people where you got it from! I haven’t included our milestone reward character yet because the big reveal is this Friday. His introduction will officially be our first reward post this Friday so come by then to check out his gravatar, name, first prologue strip, and all of it! They have alt text on them but for some reason it isn’t working yet. Hm. Well, that’s next on my list! Enjoy!
Hurray for Shards achieving the “100 Facebook likes” milestone! As mentioned before, we’ve got some fresh Shards character gravatars for the commenting portion of the site. Thanks to David Bibb for the request of doing gravatars. Now for the real treat…
For supporting us and helping us get to 100 likes on Facebook, as promised we are going to be putting up the character sheet, character page, gravatar icon, extra sketches, and one extra strip a week to introduce the last Shards hero starting on this Friday, June 3rd. He is being introduced before the full cast intro but we are so eager to show him to you, we’re using him as the reward for helping us achieve our milestone. Most of this will be put up within a week of this post so keep looking for these announcements and I’ll tell ya what’s new and been put up!
Shards has been around for nearly a year. I’ll do an extra drawing or two to mark the actual date but I wanted to point out two things that are changing a bit around here:
1.) Dorothy in conglomerate form shall appear in grayscale from hereon out if I do pin-ups, posters, or colored strips. Makes sense, and there’s a reason behind it, never fear:) It’s already been changed on her character page.
2.) Miss Muffet is getting a new dress. Look forward to a strip introducing a slightly altered look, or keep voting for Shards to see some of the dress designs. One is currently up but will be replaced on Thursday so don’t forget to vote! Do so ever day!
Just in time for our long-awaited 100th Facebook like (one of many milestones we are achieving before our first year is up), I have started a collection of gravatars (the icons by your name) for the comment section of the comic. Right now their assignment is random and for anyone not displaying their own personal gravatar but I’m figuring out how to assign them to people because I’m sure to get requests. Isn’t there a way for people to select ones they want? I can also make them all available to put on your own computers for your own gravatar collections if ya like! In the meantime, I hope you enjoy them and feel free to let me know what you think.
Hey, all! Just wanted to say we really appreciate the response we’ve gotten so far in our request for donations. I know times are tough so even seeing a few bucks trickle in is appreciated greatly. You know who you are! I’d name names but I dunno if you wanted to be singled out for being so supportive of our efforts. We just wanted to say a great thanks again and anything you can do to help is always welcome. Like spreading the word about this strip! We need readers! It’s taken nearly a year to get so close to 100 Facebook likes. Heck, I have almost twice that many friends on FB! I know. It’s lame that they don’t all “like” the comic on FB. I say shame to those who haven’t read us yet. Shame!
We hope to have a flier or at least a person or two in a t-shirt to help advertise Shards at San Diego Comicon. The tees will be made special for some of my friends who were lucky enough to get their admissions early. We can’t go:( I have been talking to one of the board members in charge of allowing publicity and they say they have a flier table. I’ve submitted one already. Still awaiting word if our site is PG enough for them LOL. I took out all the wangs, I swear!
The incentives are moved to Friday updates now. Today’s was a bit late as TB reconfigured my computer to accept our scanner so I could ink and color this week’s incentive. It is a sneak peek so check it out! Miss Muffet in a new dress design. TB thought she needed a little makeover. I might try a few designs and use them as incentives until that strip comes out revealing her new look. Feel free to tell us what you think of them as well! We’re also curious if people even LIKE the voting incentives. I received no feedback on them so far:( Bummer. Cuz I L-O-V-E hearing from you all!
Also with a donation received in the mail, we got a great letter from a fan. Our first ever! It was touching:) And it also cemented what we’re gonna do about our donation button. You asked for it, you got it! Soon to come will be a rotation of the Quadrate (Lion, Tin, Scarecrow, and Conglomerate Dorothy) beggin’ you all for spare change;P And check out the Gallery called Concept Art. Two new pieces in there so far!
Check ya later!
JG