Sean and I will be at WonderCon this year. This will be our first con attending as an exhibitor together. We’ll be there for all three days of the con in the Artist Alley at table AA-140.

While we will have no merch on sale, we will have free postcards will exclusive CC! comics. We’ll also be doing what we call “Review Sketches.” The basic idea is you bring a comic to us. We’ll do a quick little review of the comic in comics form with Sean providing the words and me drawing the character.

So if you are going to the con, be sure to stop by and say hi and maybe pick up some free stuff.

The funny thing is it was a last minute addition to the Watchmen themed comics. We have a few more Watchmen comics coming up.

Now back to drawing.

Some of the ideas we’ve been thinking about trying in the coming months:

Leaving behind the “page” format

When we started the comic, we thought that a vertical comic page was a good way to go. It was a familiar format to people who normally read print comics and gave us a good structure to build upon. But at the same time, it forced us to sometimes stretch or cut back ideas.

We experimented with the Superman Crying comic as a way to see if a different non page bound idea would work. And for the most part, it seems people liked it.

So we are thinking of going with a format that changes depending on the idea of the comic. This way, we could have short gag strips if we want as well as longer more involved comics. Basically we would let the content lead the format and not the other way around.

This would let Sean write pretty much however he wants, and it would give me freedom to draw and pace the action in different ways. About the only restriction we would keep is it would have to be 500 pixels wide.

Increasing to twice a week

Along with the “un-formating” of the comic, we are thinking of going to a schedule of twice a week. We have been playing with the idea for a while, but we wanted to get a hold of the style and voice of the comic before we expanded.

Most likely sometime next year, we will go to schedule of two comics a week. We are still trying to figure out the best schedule. We are thinking either Wednesdays and Fridays or Tuesdays and Fridays. The second option would be a little unorthodox in terms of webcomics, but think it gives a little more room between comics.

We mostly added these ads to help pay for the hosting the comic. While we are not strapped for cash, it would be nice to have the comic pay for itself.

It you have any questions or concerns, let us know.

The only really thing that’s different, for now, is the comic navigation/title/date is below the comic instead of on top. I may try to change that in the future. There is also a comic nav in the top right of the menu bar.

Let me know if you like the new setup or would like to see anything changed.

A couple things that will need to be done over the next few days/weeks. I updated to WordPress 2.5 yesterday which makes the site more secure and usable, but it seems that it may have messed up the comic navigation. I may have to update to ComicPress 2.5 which would mean I would have to recode things to get the look back to what we like. So if you see things suddenly change and change back, then you know I’m testing things.

Wooooo.