Hey guys! I was in Wisconsin all weekend for Easter so I didn’t have time to get a comic done. However, I got something special for you today!
I recorded my screen when I made Heartaches Page 8, and uploaded the process up onto Vimeo for curiosity’s sake!
I’ve just been informed that I am going to have to put in 8 extra hours a week at work for an unknown number of weeks, which means I will be getting home sometime around 8pm instead of somewhere around 5 or 6 like usual (I don’t have a car anymore, so I am at the mercy of the bus system). As I can only work on Skin Deep after I get home from my full-time job, I don’t know yet how this is going to effect Skin Deep’s update schedule, and I hope that I’ll be able to make the pages on time without any sort of hiccup, but I thought I would let everybody know in advance that I am anticipating some rather severe cutbacks on the amount of time I’m able to work on the comic.
On the plus side, the overtime will help me out a lot in the financial department! Whee!
In other news: I’m in the process of getting the Nemean Lion medallion ready to be made (see this poll for more details), and I have a new Sketchbook that is in the works, so hopefully those will be available to everybody within the next month or so!
It seems that Girlamatic is tentatively back up and running for the meantime. There are still some bugs on my end, but I am not sure about bugs on the reader end. If you are still having trouble displaying pages, tell me here. I will try to keep ya’ll updated on the site status!
This site will remain as the “secondary” site (with the WCN Mirror acting as the main site and the site that the www.skindeepcomic.com URL points to) until I am positive that the site issues have been fixed. Until then I am using this time to clean up the site a little bit. I have moved the Reader Questions off the main page, but they can still be read here. I will put up a proper link to Reader Questions in the Extras section as soon as I’m able to edit pages again (this is one of the bugs that are still being worked out).
I’ve also finally uploaded all the Fanart that I have gotten over the years. It’s not in any sort of order since the page arranges the pictures on date added rather than date created and I just kinda updated them willy nilly as I went along, but they’re all there! If I missed putting up your fanart, it’s not because I hate you! It’s because I only just recently started organizing fanart in any sort of logical fashion on my computer, and it’s very possible I just forgot yours. Give it to me again and I’ll fix it!
I also moved Ridiculous Creatures into the main Skin Deep archives, so it will show up between Exchanges chapter 1 and 2 while reading through the archives. Since it has similar themes to Fiddler’s Cave I thought it would be nice to include it in the archive run.
I’ll try to keep ya’ll updated on the site status as I get news!
February 2nd update: Girlamatic is back up and running, but there are still bugs being worked out of the system. As of right now I cannot update the comic or make new blog posts. The comic is still being updated at WCN, and the www.skindeepcomic.com URL has been changed to redirect there. The www.skindeepcomic.com URL will ALWAYS point to the comic, no matter where it is being hosted.
As you all have probably noticed, the site has been acting up lately, displaying broken images, giving commenting errors, not loading all the way, etc.
I am aware of the problems. They are problems caused by Girlamatic updating Wordpress over the weekend, and I have 100% absolutely no ability to fix any of the problems. Let me repeat: I have no way to fix the problems. The people who DO have the ability to fix the problems know about it, and they’re working on fixing it, and it has gotten steadily better since the weekend. Telling me that an image isn’t working will do no good, as I am at the mercy of Girlamatic with this issue.
If you do feel the need to tell someone about the problems, you can contact Girlamatic through their twitter or make a post on the forums about it. Like I said, they are aware of the problems and we’re all working as fast as we can to fix the bugs. The problems have largely been fixed for most people, but it’s still acting up for some people.
Workarounds and Tips until the Site Is Working Properly Again
• I’ve been posting the reader questions every week at my deviantART account
• If you are trying to comment and you get an “Internal Server Error” message DON’T PANIC. 9 times out of 10 the comment has been successfully posted. Try refreshing the page to see if your comment is there before making a new comment.
• Some readers have told me that downloading the image by right-clicking on it and saving it to the desktop will work, if the image is not loading all the way.
• Try clearing our your cache, as the site problems may have been fixed, but your browser is still loading up the buggy version of the page.
• Be patient! If these problems continue into next week when the comic starts up again, I will mirror the comic over at my old WCN page, so you’ll be able to read the comic no matter what happens.
Thank you all for your patience, and I’m sorry this is happening! Just take solace that it is happening during the comic’s hiatus instead of in the middle of a comic scene, right?
I don’t mean to sound grumpy, but people keep telling me about the site errors, and it’s making me feel pretty worthless because there is nothing I can do about them!
Holy crapping poops, you kids! The response to the Bonus Comic Ransom were TREMENDOUS and the ransom has been paid in less than 24 hours!
So go and read the bonus comic, Ridiculous Creatures! I hope you like it!
Hey kids! Reader Questions sure are keen and all, but I bet ya’ll are hankerin’ for some of that sweet sequential art action. Well have no fear, because a Bonus Comic is here just in time for winter!
There’s a new button and link on the right-hand sidebar all about Bonus Comics, and a brand new page devoted to them! Click here for details!
If you’ve always wanted to help support the comic but haven’t been terribly interested in any of the merchandise, Bonus Comics is the perfect solution for you!
Medallions for sale! Click here to buy!
Hey guys! No Reader Question for today (but keep asking questions! I have a whole month left before Exchanges chapter 2 starts!) because I was working on getting these little beauties up for sale! While I love the sphinx medallions a lot, I learned a bunch from them and feel like I made the gryphon design a lot better and more readable! I also learned about shipping, and both medallions now have lower shipping costs! Hooray!
I’ll have another reader question up for tomorrow!
Hey guys! I hope you liked Exchanges Part I: Handshakes! I am taking a break from doing the comic for a month, and Exchanges Part II: Heartbreaks will start on February 2nd!
But what’s going to happen in the meantime? Fear not! I have a fun game we can all play every day until Skin Deep comes back! What is that, you ask? It will be kind of a mixture of this old sketch meme andDoodle-a-Day!
This is what’s going to happen:
Ask a Skin Deep character a question, any question
- I will pick one of my favorites every day and doodle an answer to post on the website every day until the comic comes back!
What do you say? How does that sound, kids? Ask away! I might draw your answer and feature it on the website!
GUIDELINES: You might have a better chance of having your questions drawn out if you ask very specific questions. General questions are harder to answer and I will most likely not pick it to draw! : ) I also tend to favor questions that don’t have anything to do with the plot of the comic, or ask some personal preference or factoid about a character. Go nuts!
Sphinx medallions for sale! Michelle only wishes her medallion looked this cool, kids. It’s copper-plated and about the size of a quarter. It’s a pathtag, so you can log it’s location on the Pathtag website using the numeric code on the back! Seven bucks!
Feel free to ask questions!
This is kind of last minute as I didn’t realize it was live until right now, but I am being interviewed with a few other Girl-a-Matic creators at the Webcomic Beacon today! It’s at 2pm Central (which means in 10 minutes) so if you want to listen to it live, show up!
