Carpe Chaos News Roundup (October 26th, 2011)

Back again with the low-down for y'all:

  • First on the list is a very important thing: Comikaze is coming up, and Eric will be there at the Carpe Chaos booth on November 5th and 6th promoting the comics, selling the "shwag," and talking to everyone who'll listen. The booth number will be 3303, and he'll be sharing the space with others from The Antidote Trust including Dale Wilson of DWAP Productions and also Hannibal Tabu. If you attend and miss our table, we'll be so sad!
  • Finally, some new wiki content! The script for Reinvention is on our wiki now! As far as the next background article it's slow going, but the "Porg Homeworld" article is next I'm really hoping to get it done in the next couple of weeks. As a preview, here's a picture of one of the species of wildlife native to the Porg homeworld of Artacuse:

    An Evlucu. These are to Porgs what monkeys are to us humans.

  • I have uploaded all of our comics to our DeviantArt page. It was a bit of work because we have over 300 full-color pages at this point, but it's done and they're all organized into folders and everything. I guess some people like to read comics with their DeviantArt accounts, so now whenever I load a new page onto carpechaos.com I also add it to DeviantArt. I mean, why not? If you happen to have a DeviantArt account, you can click here and use the menu on the left to look through our comics and add your favorite pages to your Favorites List!
  • Speaking of social media sites, I activated the Graphicly Facebook App on our Facebook page here. So you can read a few of our comics right there from Facebook! I think the technology is pretty cool, especially how the Facebook comments are shared between the app and what's on the Graphic.ly website itself.
  • And that brings me to the latest Graphicly release, which is Trading Tales: The Myth of Midigan (Chapter 3). It's only 99 cents, and if you buy it now you can read the ending early! We would really appreciate the support! Just for fun, here it is embedded in this blog post! Graphicly has all these cool widget things.
  • I ran some banner ads in Project Wonderful both this month and last month promoting Reinvention, and before that Jailing Fortune Chapter 3. I thought they turned out pretty good, so why not share them here? If you're one of the people that found us through these ads, welcome!



  • Trading Tales: The Myth of Midigan's Chapter 3 is will be completely uploaded to CarpeChaos.com on November 1st, right on schedule. In fact, I just uploaded page 49:

    We then plan to start uploading the final chapter of Jailing Fortune on November 6th, so look forward to the suspenseful ending! It will be great! And you should trust me, because I know how it ends. The ending is awesome!

  • I feel like we have so many things going on that I can't talk about yet because none of them are ready to show off yet. But, I'll tempt fate by mentioning a couple of things we hope to be able to show off soon:

    • You know how we have two iPhone/iPad apps in the app store? One for Moments of Elation and another for Daniel Allen's version of Rurban Sprawl? No? You should go and download them, because they are free! Anyway, after Apple told us we couldn't keep releasing one app per chapter like that, we began working on a single app that could load all of our comics. It's been taking a while because it's pretty complicated, but we're in the home stretch and we think a release may just be a few months away. I'm probably jinxing things by mentioning it early, but once it comes out it will be AMAZINGLY COOL. And as you can tell by the two stories that are already available there, the reading experience is completely different because the comics have been "remixed" to fit the screen with no annoying scrolling or zooming required to read them. I can't wait until it's done...
    • Jason Brubaker of reMIND launched a new resource site for making comics called, aptly enough, makingcomics.com. He invited us to contribute articles to the site, which is an honor for us, and we plan to make some how-to articles for him in the near future. Again, it's pretty early to mention it because we haven't written anything yet, but of course I'll post again here when something of ours makes it onto his site.

    It sucks to have all of these plans in motion and none of them done! We've got a lot more going on too, but I really can't announce those yet. Stay tuned for more updates!

-Jason

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