Lots of changes going on here! Phil Hofer has worked tirelessly (He stayed up all night!) to get the site working again after its database corrupted. It ends up that a plugin was at the root of the problem, so now it’s gone.

This also explains why I haven’t been blogging—I couldn’t. The blogging part of the site was the first part that broke, leading to the discovery of the other problems. It’s like getting a sore foot, and finding out that your spine is out of alignment. (OK, terrible analogy, but you get the basic idea). The posting function is fixed now (Thanks, Phil!).

eShop, the source of our problems, is out of the picture, the plugin that powered our store. I’ll have a new store up and running by Monday, one with more options. For now, if you feel you need a copy of “Johnny Saturn: Sins of the Father“, you need to go to Amazon.com for it.

If I can draw your attention to the new navigation buttons under the comic, and the pull-down menus in the top nav bar, these are some of Phil’s additions to the site, and they are damn tasty!

I’d also like to mention the Johnny Saturn will be taking part in the “Frumph.NET’s Great Holiday Hunt,” which you can read more about here.

I’ll probably post more this afternoon!

Scott

Good friend John Wilson has made “Johnny Saturn” today’s Sketchmag Spotlight over at the Sketch Magazine site.  We are, of course, quite honored.  Plus, he mentions Benita’s spinning wheel, which is a long-standing presence when we do comic shows.

You may have noticed that there is no Johnny Saturn store up.  I’ve had technical difficulties, to be honest.  I’ve tried to install Zen Cart three times, all failing, and the third time it took down the whole site for a while, forcing me to do a restore.  I can’t go back to eShop, because it did a real job on our database.  So, a store is coming, and it will be sooner than later, but I’m just not sure when exactly.

Over at Webcomics.com, I put Johnny Saturn up for a critique by my webcartoonist peers.  The advice and observations I’ve received have been invaluable.  I mention this because, if you think I’m above criticism, you are incorrect.  I will never be too good to stop working on improving the strip.  I consider myself to be a journeyman, and my masterwork is still out there, in the future.

Speaking of “Sketch Magazine,” I would like to make sure that at least all the readers of this blog know about it.  Having been published for well over thirty issues, and featuring interviews with many of the comic industries top stars, Sketch Magazine has offered valuable advice for learning cartoonist for some years now.  It has covered every aspect of the comic creation process in some detail, and it has adapted to the times by recognizing and offering instruction to the world on the rise of webcomics.  I have been very proud to be a semi-regular contributor to this fine publication, and I would strongly urge all learning cartoonists to buy or subscribe to it.  It’s available in virtually all comic shops, and online.

Scott.