16 entries tagged
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This is a selection of
images collected at the CAPTION96 comics convention (in the
summer of 1996).
Attentive readers will have noticed that there is almost a
year-long gap between the con and the photo album. This is partly
explained by the amount a manual labour involved in scanning all
those 7×5 photos on my none-too-fast scanner and moving the
files from the Mac with the scanner to the Linux box with all my
web site stuff on.
Update:
With the creation of the CAPTION
web site, this album has moved home and in the process has been
redesigned with a less archaic look.
Update (23 April 2010):
I have created a new version of the CAPTION96 album on my
Ancient Photo Albums site.
I took almost 200 pictures of small-press-comics folk
at the convention
EuroCAPTION97. Here's
the finished album,
with many of the duff pictures discarded.
Update:
With the creation of the CAPTION
web site, this album has moved home and in the process has been
redesigned with a less archaic look.
I have uploaded
an electronic version of
the minicomic I did in Jeremy’s workshop at
CAPTION2000.
The original was drawn as 16
panels on some page sized a bit over A4, and cut and folded in to
a 16-page comic.
We have created a new web site for CAPTION:
http://caption.org.
The CAPTION material on this site has all been moved across,
and on this site will be replaced with redirections to the new
site. This is just as well, as the Alleged Literature site had
used up 20750438 bytes of its 20971520-byte
quota—that’s 98·95% full!
It is a tradition of Caption that the photos of the event take
months if not years to appear. This year is no exception—I am
still working on indexing the pictures nicely... but the first
cut of my Caption 2001
photo album is now on-line, and not before time. I’m even
trying to munge several of the photos together in to animations.
I have now converted the photo albums
(Aviemore, Roch
Castle, and Bologna) on my old site
(http://www.alleged.demon.co.uk/)
to go on
the new site (http://www.alleged.org.uk/). In the process I have ripped out the old
HTMLgen code that generated them and replaced it with the more
streamlined TclHTML equivalent (using the code I concocted
when building the photo albums on the
CAPTION site). As a result,
the last vestiges of the old Alleged look and feel
(with the tabbed-notebook style) is gone! I guess it must
be time for a redesign, then... :-)
No update to the Alleged Tarot (yet) this week...
Jeremy
needed the Mac to do her flier for the exhibition for CAPTION 2002, so it wasn’t
available for me to finish drawing Judgement and The World—and
I do not want to skimp on this fairly elaborate card. Also
I had some work of my own for the CAPTION web site
I’been puting off.
After a few false starts (and some confusion as to which server
I should be publishing it on) there is now another page or
two on caption.org.
And my Mac has stopped talking to the laser printer attached to
my Linux box. To be honest, I can’t quite remember
how we got it working last time, but I think in the end
I used Apple’s own LPR-based printer driver (as
opposed to netatalk’s AppleLink printer daemon). My
attempts to use this again result in a useless error message
(‘internal error’). Presumably it got broken in the
upgrade to Mac OS 9. It doesn’t help that Macs just
will not print unless you can point to the physical hardware.
Presumably there is some dance you can do to get around this,
given that one is supposedly able to send a disc full of
PostScript to a bureau whose printer would not even fit in your
house.
I have added a couple of pages about how to draw
minicomics to the CAPTION
2002 web site. Not a very profound bit of writing, but I
hope some people will find it useful.
There is also now a proper biog page for Jeremy’s section
of this site, complete with some new pictures.
There are still some links left to the old site,
but we’re working on it...
Update (20 June 2010)
Jeremy]s sectio has been obsoleted by the
Jermey Day web site.
Jeremy has created an advert for CAPTION 2002 for which we have
the screen version seen here (add it to your web site today!)
and high-resolution versions
suitable for printing (150 mm × 58 mm at
300 dpi). Note that the high-resolution files are not
planned as permanent links.
This weekend was
Caption
2002—‘Caption Noir’.
It all seemed to go really well—not that I can take
much credit for it, since all I was responsible for was
making the badges for attendees, and as it turned out
I didn’t make enough! That means we had many more
walk-ins than were were planning.
Jeremy
was very busy, as always. She had big
tasks: the mail-art exhibition (which this year took the
forms of dozens of black butterflies fluttering on invisible
threads down a corridor), and a workshop during which three
teams drew ‘noir’ comics based on plot points drawn at random
out of beer glasses.
More
snapshots of my nephew Darren (my brother’s been
upgrading his web site).
Photos from
CAPTION 2002 by
Matt
Brooker,
David
Goodman, and Matthew
Lawrenson. Jeremy’s workshop
report also has photos of the participants at work.
My back-burner project for the CAPTION web site is something
that I shall give the working name of Picky Picky Game.
This game will work in rounds, with everyone able to vote for
a picture from this round at the same time as people are
submitting pictures for the next round.
The idea is that we make a comic strip out of
the favourite pictures from each round.
A round might last a week or a month (depending on how often
people submit new pictures), so I want to make it a
configuration parameter. The code I was working on today
was the routine that works out the current round number, given
today’s date, the start date, and the period. For example,
if we had 2-week rounds and had started on 1 January 2002, then
we would today (2002-10-31) be in Round 21.
Having taken a week off work, I have belatedly updated the CAPTION
2004 web site. It includes tabbed sections using a technique
taken from the article Sliding Doors of CSS on the A List
Apart web site.
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On my server I use D. J. Bernstein’s Daemontools package to run the servers for my web sites (other services are automatically installed in to the init or init.d directories).
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Some friends and I started a small comics convention in Oxford called
CAPTION a few years ago—so long ago, in fact, that it predates web sites
for events like or anything like that. I started created brochure sites for
CAPTION from 1998 (though I think that SpaceCAPTION1999 was the first to have
a real promotional site). Reading through the old archives it’s interesting
seeing the capabilites of web styling—and my facility with them—improving from
year to year. So here is a slideshow!
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In my previous article I showed off 14 old CAPTION web site designs. Here’s a little about CAPTION 2012.
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