Who knew that rebuilding over 20 years’ worth of website could be such back breaking work. I dove in, planning to work on only one thing. Three days later I have but was it worth the cost?!? Oooowwww..
Anyway, the Akashik website is far from pretty again but it does at least sport one comic. An old one, one of the ones that was mostly kept under wraps because of how it was released. Things have changed, and I’ve had to change with it this time instead of standing on my front porch shouting for people to get off’n my lawn.
Because of how the systems changed on me, some things for all of the comics are changing as well. The biggest change is that I’ll no longer be posting pages as they come to the website itself. I’ll only be doing it with Patreon, maybe permanently. That depends.
The biggest reason is that website upkeep per page is time consuming and tedious. I wouldn’t say I have a lot of irons in the fire – I’ve actually thrown some out and set others aside for when a previous iron is doing being fired. I simply don’t want to add more. Besides, it protects that patreon cubs club feeling. If you’re invested in me, you get things first. WAY ahead of time in some cases. Woot.
I’ve went through a lot of trouble to figure out how to put the stories and chapters as flipbooks onto the site. That way there’s a comic dynamic feel to them, and the glorious memory of inhales paper. This also protects things from future breakdown. It’s easier to put up posts by “chapter 1” and then have the entire chapter there than to argue page by page by page.
I actually have a couple of Akashik stories that seem to want to be prose more than art. I’ve been planning a light novel approach to them. There’s only a couple of them, sitting under wraps all this time waiting for me to somehow draw what wants to be words.
I personally like the idea of prose additions to the World Akashik because prose enables me to talk about things that can’t be added into a comic book flow. I could do explanation sequential art on the side, sure, but it’s cleaner to simply go with the prose.