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Success in the World of Comics

by Scott Lincoln on February 7, 2012 at 1:30 pm

Well I’ve booked my flight, my room and I’m all signed up for the “Success in the World of Comics”seminar in Las Vegas. Looking at the list of speakers, looks like it’s going to be a great opportunity to meet some great folks in the industry and obtain important information and tools to help take Ralf the Destroyer to the next level.

Some of you may know that Ralf appears on Comics Sherpa and mirrored to the GoComics Site. I did it to try different audiences and see how newspaper readers would respond vs web comic readers and the comments have been pretty encouraging on both fronts, here’s one from the GoComics site:

Buzza Wuzza said, February 07, 2012
This strip does everything right. Good jokes daily, a solid premise to begin with, really great art, subplots that don’t drown you, etc. Why are you in Sherpa and not in 200 newspapers daily?

That’s my goal, Ralf the Destroyer running daily online and in newspapers nation/world wide and I’m hoping this trip will be a step forward in that direction.

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Web Site update

by Scott Lincoln on February 1, 2012 at 12:11 am

Posted In: News, Events and Secrets

Just wanted to include a quick update about the website. A few people have mentioned the navigation glitch that impedes progress through the few most recent comics… I am attempting to upgrade to a newer version of Comicpress to rectify this error. I actually looked into a couple other comic plug-ins, but I am only so competent when it comes to PHP and CSS… And I am really slow and don’t want to risk loosing all the great comments and feedback that are stored up here. The site may appear slightly different when I attempt the switch (since child themes don’t work like the actual theme did on the older version), but I am trying to minimize the changes. I’m not finished yet, but just to let everyone know.

Another thing I thought I’d announce is that even though I won’t be running a full daily schedule I will be including Sunday strips more often, every seventh strip to be exact. It may appear on a Monday, Wednesday or a Friday but every seventh strip will be in a Sunday format. I’m doing this because if Ralf makes it into newspapers on a daily basis, I don’t want to be too far behind on my Sundays and I also want to make sure I can hit the right balance with them as individual strips as well as part of a series. It helps me feel like I’m moving towards the goal anyhow. For now they will be in Black and white as the consensus has been positive for that.

Thank you for reading!

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Ralf’s TV Influence

by Scott Lincoln on December 29, 2011 at 8:00 am

Posted In: Sightings & Sketches

I would like to thank Deb Wolfe for sending me this great fan strip of Ralf the Destroyer. Deb is a fan on Facebook and I had the pleasure of chatting with her there. She is also working on a strip of her own called “The Frenetic Adventures of Fred Barlowe” over at Comic Genesis. I think she did a great job and I do enjoy the gag having been a fan of all the Spielberg TV animation from the 90s.

Thanks Deb!

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For Those in Deutschland

by Scott Lincoln on December 15, 2011 at 10:30 pm

Posted In: Sightings & Sketches

For all those German speaking readers out there (Germany ranks forth in visits according to Google Analytics) Ralf the Destroyer is being translated into your native tongue. So far the comic network site “Streifenhoernchen” is only in its Beta format and there are only a few “Ralf” strips up but the translator did a great job finding a font and justifying it to fit in the word balloons.

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Comic Booked

by Scott Lincoln on December 15, 2011 at 3:01 pm

Posted In: Sightings & Sketches

Ralf the Destroyer got a nice mention over at the Comic Booked website for their “Webcomics Wednesdays”. Ralf got a mention in the “aliens category and listed second behind “Zorphbert and Fred” by Dawn Griffin who I had the pleasure of meeting at the Wizard Philadelphia Comic Con this summer. Feel free to stop by the Comic Booked site and comment!