Opening the door to a wider world of expression
ANNUAL REPORT20251-800-GAIL-BEAR TO OUR AUDIENCE Strategic Highlights The elimination of the 1-800-GAILBEAR Twitter account has left a bit of a void in terms of distribution of links to submitted reports and the publicizing of the site’s existence. Given that the site only exists as a bit of fun, there are currently no significant strategic plans
Last week while I was writing a Pull List post on Comics Unbagged, I found that I was unable to upload an image. After doing some troubleshooting based on the error message, I determined that the problem was that I had hit my server s limit of 250,000 files. This actually explained a problem I d had
It s been a while since I last posted anything here, as most of my efforts have been focused on Comics Unbagged, but this seemed like a better place for this. After so many years and so many offers of any amount of money, the legendary 1982 DC Comics Style Guide is going to be released
ANNUAL REPORT20221-800-GAIL-BEAR TO OUR AUDIENCE Strategic Highlights In the chaotic and turbulent environment that Twitter has become since being purchased by store-brand Tony Stark who seems to be doing his best to destroy the platform, Gail Simone has managed to thrive, as chaos is her natural habitat. And Elon is a fool if he thinks
Just wanted to post a quick note to point out that the new site that will be the home for Spotlight Sunday-style posts finally has a name and is live. You can see it here. There s not much to see yet beyond a welcome post, but the first actual post will show up soon, so
I left the poll for naming the new sub-site that will replace Spotlight Sunday open through Election Day here in the US, and the results of that should not surprise anyone. Very few votes resulting in a tie. Yep, that checks out. I could do another poll to try to get a tiebreaker, but I m
It was Bruce Wayne talking to himself, reaffirming his own identity … He s saying it to himself rather than proclaiming it to the world. He s psyching himself up … If you do it like a histrionic speech then it sounds ridiculous. But if you do it from inside, like you re trying to convince yourself, you re
As an addendum to yesterday s post, I should mention that the existing Spotlight Sunday posts aren t going anywhere. The only real change that s happening is that there will be no new posts, and that all similar posts will appear on the yet-to-be-named site that will serve as their new home. And they won t be limited
As mentioned in my final Spotlight Sunday post months ago, I m planning to launch a new site here at OpenDoor Comics that serves as a dedicated location for those kinds of posts, and I noted that the first hurdle is coming up with a name for it. I also asked for people to submit some
It took more than two years, but I finally managed to exert some control over my life. Yes, that s right: all of my comics, trade paperbacks, and hardcovers have been entered into my CLZ database and are all organized and neatly put away. Over the past few days, I built up enough motivation to finish