I think we can be magnanimous

July 13th, 2010 | by root
Posted In: Blog, Blog, News and Updates

I’ve had a few people over the last few days asking me if it is okay to make usericons for livejournal, twitter, DA, FA, gravatars, instant messengers, forum signatures, etc, out of images taken from the comics, and I figure there’s probably more people who are wondering who haven’t asked, so I’ll go ahead and answer it here:

Yes, you can use Dawn Chapel art for user icons. You’re welcome to recolor it, caption them however you like, go nuts. I’m not particularly picky about attribution (since it’s kind of tough to fit a source citation on a usericon), but if you do get asked where you got your lovely user icon, you know I’d surely be pleased if you sent them this way.

I’ve been meaning to make a page to keep downloadable goodies like wallpapers, icons, and link banners for a while now but, I mean, look at me. I got stuff to do.

Whoa, whoops

July 10th, 2010 | by root
Posted In: Blog, Blog, News and Updates

I edited the Early Bird comic because (as I’m sure basically everyone noticed) I negected a word in one of the dialogue balloons that kind of muddied the joke. I noticed, though, that it seems to have bumped it up or reposted it in some of the RSS fetchers (the Livejournal one was where I saw it) so you may have been attacked by that page unexpectedly. Sorry!

Also, you probably don’t need me to point this out for you but I’ve completely disabled comments on entries. My opinion on comments sections in general is no secret, but considering there are maybe like, four regular readers, having only one or two comments on some of the entries leave a more lonely impression than no comments at all, if you ask me.

Besides, I do get plenty of feedback from readers directly, or through twitter, and (again, if you’ve visited the site lately, you don’t need me to tell you this) I’ve added a twitter search widget to the sidebar. If you want your tweet to appear there, linking to the comic is good enough, and if you don’t necessarily have a link but would like to comment, just tag it with #dawnchapel and we’ll consider that hashtag to be our open forum.

If you’d rather contact me directly, I’ve added a feedback form. I don’t get a lot of email, so you can pretty much count on me responding to you.

Finally, I’d like to thank the bazillions of you that have tweeted the latest comic right up into orbit, and the handful of you that vote regularly, and the other handful of you that have added The Dawn Chapel to your belfry subscription list, and the other other handful of you that upvote and/or submit comics to Reddit. There are not enough high-fives in the world.

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