No Rain, Annie. Snow, Though?

[dewline]

That was this morning. Not very much of it, to my ongoing surprise. It is December in Ottawa, after all: you expect to see more snow than the light dusting we've gotten in this city thus far. This sort of visual tends to wreck the images evoked by your music.

Anyway, almost done on Local Hero # 1 as I type these words. One more page, and a bit of tweaking on some of the others, and it will all be "in the can".

Meantime, I've been working on a commission for someone else -- yes, I do those, too, friends, neighbours and strangers. Just e-mail me if you're interested -- and looking for other work as well as taking care of assorted housechores.

Something else I've been wondering about of late is called comicspace.com. Seems to be patterned after myspace.com, but billed as tailored for the comics pros, semi-pros, amateurs and fans alike. I know that budgie_uk's taken out an account, as has warren_ellis among others. I'd be interested in opinions on the service from anyone willing to share.

Comments

[quietdarkness.livejournal.com]

I wasn't aware of comicspace, either. Thank you, I'll have to check it out. Just what I need...another place to post things:P

[dewline.livejournal.com]

You'd think the founders believed there was a real dearth of such venues!

[jcoville.livejournal.com]

I think they just knew that instead of comic fans trying to find each other via myspace, livejournal, blogger, etc.. they would all join together in one spot.

I hope it works out well. Online comic fandom feels way to fractured sometimes. Maybe it will be like RAC* again.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

RAC* hasn't exactly gone away, as I recall...

[jcoville.livejournal.com]

No, but it doesn't have the traffic it once had with like *everybody* reading it.

Hell, I remember when Paul Levitz would give a surprise post here and there.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

His visits weren't that long ago, were they?

[jcoville.livejournal.com]

I joined up too.

http://www.comicspace.com/comichistory/

[quietdarkness.livejournal.com]

I can't even access your comicspace site: "Too many users are trying to access the database."

This doesn't exactly bode well for it's capacity to be a central place for comics fans:)

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Yeah. That's right next to my concern over the whole operation needing to be for high-bandwidth users for it to really work. Not unlike myspace.com and deviantart.com, if I understand the concepts of those sites correctly...?

[jcoville.livejournal.com]

Warren Ellis apparently linked to it.

He kills many sites he links to because of the massive amount of traffic / bandwidth that flows that way.