Todd

For a few days now I’ve been preparing my Frik comic for ebooks. Because people will be able to zoom in on their phone or tablet and get really tight on the details, I noticed that since I was still learning the ropes with my volume one, that most of it is incredibly sloppy work. In print you don’t notice this so much, but if you zoom in you absolutely will see the flaws.

One of the wonderful things about creating a digital comic is that I can go back and fix these flaws now that I’m better at the craft, but on the other hand, because I CAN go back and fix them I HAVE to fix them because I’m OCD enough about my work where it’s just something that has to be done without question.

This means, at least to start, this is going to be a very slow process converting this over. Oy.

Five years and 100 episodes later marks the end of FRIK, and today is the last episode. It’s hard to believe I’ve been working on this for five years. It feels like yesterday when the idea solidified in my noggin and just a few months later it was online. I can’t say it was a whirlwind, but more like a steady race to the finish line throughout its run.

I am proud of this comic for multiple reasons. For one, FRIK is the first comic I created since I was a teenager. It’s also something that I could truly call my own. Anything I made as a teen was a crappy knockoff of some 1980s cartoon. FRIK is also better than anything I could come up with artistically back then.
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In a few weeks my FRIK website will be going away as the comic is coming to an end. In the meantime I’ve been moving content over from there to here so I don’t lose it. You may find that this site evolves a little bit over the course of the next couple of weeks. Also the Theme change caused a couple of things to break, so I’ll be fixing those as well.

I am extremely picky when it comes to what WordPress theme I use. Being an artist and a designer can do that to you, and for the past week I’ve been trying to find a new theme. The problem is I hate everything I see out there. I picked this current theme because it didn’t look like all the other themes and stood out. There’s a very cookie cutter approach to a lot of the themes on the net, even ones you pay for. Heck, I probably spent a few days looking before I stumbled upon this one.

The problem is, I didn’t realize this theme is not search engine friendly. None of my posts get seen by search engines. Sadly, I didn’t know this till after using the theme for two years. As my Frik comic comes to an end, I am merging that site into this one in June. This means all my “how to” articles will transfer over here, and I don’t want them to get thrown into the abyss that is “unsearchable posts” land.

So expect a theme change in the next week or so. Most likely what I’ll end up doing is using the theme my comics use, with a few modifications. It’s simple and clean and does everything I need. It’s no where near as fancy as this current one, but I have no choice but to change it.

EDIT: The latest WP update that came out today actually killed my theme somehow. This means instead of the revised look happening in a couple of weeks, it happened today. Things will be a little messy for the next few days as I get this all sorted out, thanks!