Posts Tagged ‘comic’

I have been an avid Bitstripper for the last year and a half. Recently, I have been making efforts which causes me to not be on the site as much. Nonetheless, when I get some down time, I will spend it making a new comic.

On Dec 4th. Bitstrips came out with a new builder and added more items to their builder. In this screencast, we go over the items added and show you a little bit about creating a character and a comic. We also talk a bit about Bitstrips for Schools – a site for teachers and students.

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1894 – The first Sunday Comics section is printed by the New York World

1985 – 91 years later, Bill Watterson syndicates a comic about a boy and his stuffed Tiger. Calvin and Hobbes will bring laughter to millions for the next ten years. It reached through 2,400 newspapers (at it’s height) and spun off 18 books. Bill Watterson ended the comic on December 31st, 1995 and has left it retired since.

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Other Day in Tech History items:

• A court says Microsoft is free to market BASIC
• International Cryptography Framework (ICF).
• DivX sues Yahoo over Google-Yahoo deal
• Macy’s Department Store launches largest Internet shopping website to date.

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It has been a long day. It all started yesterday when we began the process of moving a website to a different server so I could put up the new version of said site. All heck seemed to happen after that.

We’ll leave the water heater out of this story, let’s just say I have taken 3 cold showers in the last 3 days. YAY!

I have found I not only hit the limit on my website, I went WAYYYY past it. I had to remove 2/3rds of the podcasts just to get under quota. I am not sure what happened – but now I am on the hunt for a service to store the data. Once it finds a new home, I will make all adjustments. For now – Episodes 1-52 of the weekly podcast and the first 24 Quickcasts / 5 min show. are down.

So in momentus fashion, I offer this week’s Bitstrips to use part of an old favorite Edgar Allen Poe poem to create the scene and this week’s comic. Enjoy. (BTW – no Week in Tech History for the weekend due to the podcast space problem. Sorry).

Happy Halloween!!

This week we talk with Groucho Marx – famous Comedy legend from early film and stage.

The facial features seem to need work from Bitstrips. But we’ll overlook that and post this weeks’ strip. Bob Barker from the Price is Right.

Every Friday I will be posting a Bitstrip. This week, were talking with Albert Einstein.

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