Whew.
Well, it's getting close enough that I can finally make the announcement--Graphic Smash is spinning Digger off and giving it its own site! They think that Digger was pretty much the breakout hit of the site, and they've wanted to do this for awhile, but there was some buying out and corporate stuff, so everything was on hold for awhile. But now it's back on track! We'll have our own site! Woot!
(Yaaay! Much rejoicing! )
On the downside, this means that I have spent the past three hours manually re-naming files and uploading them in batches. I have to do this for the ENTIRE ARCHIVE.
(sobbing, tearing of hair, rending of garments)
However, once it goes live--and I'll have links hopefully soon, we don't have the site designed yet or anything, so it'll be a little bit--it will hopefully be very cool!
It will also be going off subscription, and over to advertising--Graphic Smash is pretty much abandoning the subscription model. I'm pleased that we'll get more traffic as a result, and that people will finally get to read the whole archives for free, but I also find myself wanting to do something nice for all my faithful subscribers, who quite literally paid my rent a couple of times--without them, Digger would have been abandoned long ago, and I owe them big time for having sustained me and my comic so wonderfully and well.
So if anybody has any suggestions--downloadable wallpaper or whatever hardly seems like ENOUGH, but while I'd love to offer a limited edition print free to past subscribers, I learned my lesson mailing the Taxman prints--I can't afford another thousand dollar mail bill! If anybody's got any thoughts, please feel free to post below...
Also, Kevin just called me down to see a big-ass possum sitting on the fence looking grumpy. (He had a right to be grumpy, Brandon had been trying to herd him, and possums are not good herd animals.) He didn't move when we got close and shined the flashlight on him, possibly hoping we'd go away. His tail had dark bands of pigment at the base, and a few dark spots, and he had a twitchy little pink nose. So that was cool.
(You could offer the prints for free if people cover the shipping? Some free wallpapers for everyone, prints for people who will cover shipping costs?)
And second, errmm, third by now, the idea of prints that are free except for shipping.
Also possums have a lot of sharp teeth, therefore I give them space. They look very cool and prehistoric, though.
do possums have an expression other than grumpy? if they do, I've never seen it, despite the fact that they share turned-up mouths with dolphins....
I will be able to drag friends to the Very Beginning to hook them! *starts her alphabetical list of Friends Who Haven't Read Digger Yet*
or a free little perl script
http://scrye.com/~tkil/perl/pmv
The time I was subscribed to Graphic Smash was solely for Digger archives. I finally let it lapse a while back when I made sure my family knows whenever a new one goes into print it should be given to me as a present for the next birthday/christmas/whatever.
i'm another one who subscribes to graphic smash just for digger (i keep meaning to check out some of the other strips, but that would mean catching up on the archives, and somehow i just don't seem to have that kind of time). i hope both of you prosper with a subscription-free business plan!