Directions “Up” – (2003)
“Up” is the final piece in Directions. Trying to get a webpage to scroll up is difficult, so I went the route of having the viewer position themselves on the page. Kind of a cheap trick when you think about it. But back then, I was no html expert! Funnily enough, the original page had plenty of […]
Directions “Left” – (2003)
“Left” was the most problematic of the Directions installments. The biggest difficulty was in making a comic that reads from right to left. It’s counter intuitive for sure. Also pretty much all of the internet, from code-writing to browser rendering, is based on top-right orientation. So I employed a few tricks back then to make it work. Unfortunately, […]
Directions – (2003)
So there used to be this thing called Bitpass. When it was originally launched, it focused pretty heavily on monetizing webcomics. I was invited to be a beta tester of their system and create content for sale. This was 2003 and although it seems somewhat silly now, there was very little movement in terms of an easy […]
The Jerk – (2001)
This comic was first published sometime at the end of 2001. It gained some popularity at the time it was published and was the most ambitious hypercomic I had attempted. It’s an Infinite Canvas style scrolling narration with embedded interactive flash files that add depth to the narrative. The horizontal section of the comic features […]
Set-up, (Beat), Punchline – (2004)
According to the internet wayback machine, this horizontal scroller was made sometime in 2004. There are many in-jokes and references to mid 2000’s webcomics in here. At the time, web-publishing meant that you could instantly comment on trends and work. Although the idea is ubiquitous now, it was a fairly new idea at the time. So the […]