Webcomics in Drupal: the future
Greetings, webcomic-y people!
There hasn't been activity in this group for a while, mostly because the people who started it have been busy, but I think it's high time to kick things off. I discovered Drupal a couple of years ago when looking for a nice CMS to host my webcomic, and the cloud of information I wanted to use to document the fictional world it took place in. I whipped up a very (very!) simple module called 'comic' that was available for download on Drupal.org for almost a year.
Along the way, I learned a lot about Drupal and got sucked into the community's vortex of awesomeness. Early this year, I started work on an advanced replacement for comic.module called, conveniently enough, webcomic.module. It's in a just-usable but still-experimental state, and it has a long way to go before it can really be the basis of a solid comic site. The purpose of this group is to gather insights from people who either run webcomics, are looking for tools to do so, or want to help build those tools. I know what MY needs are, but I want to make sure that Drupal has the tools necessary to meet other comic sites' needs as well.
Later today, I'm going to write up the revised battle plan for webcomic.module, and outline what features it will provide and how they'll work. In the meantime, feel free to chip in with your thoughts on what Drupal-As-A-Comic-System needs to succeed, what features are essential, and what you've learned in building any existing non-drupal comic sites.
Trying to Develop Interest At Comixpedia
I've posted once about this at Comixpedia with apparently no posting here yet. I'll try again.
In the meantime, two good sites/scripts to look at their functionality would be at zwol.org and moderntales.com
Zwol.org in particular does multiple comics on one site (which I think the Webcomics module absolutely must do) very well. (I have the source code for it although I'd have to check with the developer to see if I could share it).
Moderntales (similar setup on WebcomicsNation.com) does a lot of things very well beyond just presentation and archiving.
Any news?
Sorry, not a lot to add but just curious what progress (if any) has been made on this project? Thanks.
As a matter of fact...
...Yes!
At the beginning of the month I'll be moving to doing Drupal work full time. In addition, I've been working with Jeff Robbins of Lullabot to finish a module that solves one of the fundamental problems I was facing with the webcomic module: generating clean, easy-to-theme first/prev/next/last pagers for comics in a variety of formats, regardless of hos they're organized. (Using views.module, using a taxonomy, by author, etc.)
It seems like a little thing, but handling that stuf in a flexible way was giving me conniptions, as I wanted the module to be easy to set up for various types of comic sites. More news as it comes...
YES!!
WooHOOO!
Been waiting on this module!!!!!!!
Keep up the work, jeff- there's plenty of people who will adopt drupal for this module alone!
Coming Soon?
Will the finished webcomic.module be coming soon- say, around the 5.0 release?
Thanks for your work on it!
Progress?
The last snapshot release I see is from 11/13. Is this being maintained elsewhere now, or has development stalled?
I have just joined
part of the project that i have been working on is to get writers and artists to collaborate so that web comics could be created. I very much like the idea of www.globalcomicjam.com and how that operates. As I am just getting my site fixed up can you advise me on how i would go uploading the comic module so I can test it out, I am a totally newby with drupal and am trying me best.
Kerry
I am curious if you are
I am curious if you are still working on this module. I would like to install it for a friend's web comic (www.vendettacomic.com), but I really need it to be for 5.1. I am happy to make some suggestions about what all is needed, but I would like to be sure it is still active first. :-)
Thanks for all the great work.
/carmi