I'm going to talk about updating my old comics web site johnscartoons.com. I created the site way back in 2002, which is 15 years ago now... man, that sounds like a loooong time ago. Anyway, the site was where I published a whole bunch of my cartoons that I made during my *cough* younger years. A few years ago the site got out of synch and stopped pointing to the right sever, or something like that - internet stuff has never been my strong suit :-) But I decided enough was enough and figured it was time to work out what the problem was and use the site as a great little project to apply my new JavaScript skills (step 1 is to get the site back up, step 2 will be JavaScript - so don't expect much at the moment).
So as you may have guessed I used to draw single panel gag strips and write comics back in the nineties while I was making games. In fact, after I quit my original day job around 1992 I actually supplemented my savings by selling the occasional gag strip and co-writing a comic series with Pete Mullins.
So while I was programming/designing/writing Flight of the Amazon Queen and designing Halloween Harry I was writing and drawing comics for money. Not a lot of money, but enough to cover rent.
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Anyway, I've set up the site again and built it with some basic HTML and CSS using Bootstrap. Previously I had used some drag and drop web site builders - but now I can go crazy and test out my JavaScript skills to do some interesting stuff.
I have a big backlog of cartoons, so I'll try and update the site with new "old" strips every week and slowly build the site out as I learn new stuff.
At the moment the site only has 12 cartoons and the links in the menu bar don't go anywhere, but they will soon.
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Enjoy!
- John
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