Not dead, still alive
As you may have noted, the bobbins.horse site has been down for a few months. The Grawlix CMS that I had been using was abandoned by its creators and after a MySQL upgrade by my host, no longer worked. So I have started to rebuild the site using WordPress, which is not ideal, but maybe we can think of it as my new hobby. It will take me a little while to get things ship-shape. I may never get all the comic descriptions and titles back up as I would have to copy-paste them out of the old database and I am not going to live forever. We all have our limits.
I don’t have any new webcomics to run at the moment (I am writing and drawing something for print that will keep me busy into September) but I do have plans for a few months of new strips roughed out to follow the February 4th post, and will switch the old factory back on when I have some idle time – probably in the autumn (but no promises).
In my continued absence I hope you will check out the final five issues of Giant Days, the final By Night (#12), and something else new that is coming soon. All available at your local comic shop or via Comixology.
Thanks, as ever, for reading!
Hi John, it’s always good to hear from you. I wondered what the Hello World post earlier today was all about. Cheers, Mark.
Real Men do their sites with hand-coded HTML! π
It should be possible to export the information out of the old database into a file (like a .csv or something) and import that file into the new database.
Yeah, what Cornelis said. I’m happy to donate some time to whip up a script and wouldn’t need any special access, shoot me an email
I am glad that you are alive and creating! I look forward to seeing your new things!
Oof… rough. Sorry to hear that, but glad you’re back up and running!
I’ve found picking technologies to build on is a tough call. I want to support small, plucky innovators, especially the ones that come out with features that work perfectly for whatever it is I’m aiming to do. But those are also the platforms that seem most likely to vanish on me.
Then again, sometimes it works out. Years ago, a little frustrated with Blogger, I made the jump to a feisty new open-source blogging platform I’d heard good things about. I did my due diligence, keeping my eyes on the exits by making sure it would be easy to export my data when the time came.
It was called WordPress. Haven’t had to use the exits yet. π
I have no idea if you’ll ever read this, but congratulations on winning the Eisner for Giant Days!
Happy to be reading the archived episodes. I’ve missed your humor.