Please Stand By

This week, many people had problems viewing the comic both on Boing Boing (fixed as of Wednesday afternoon) and Gocomics (not yet fixed fixed as of Friday evening).  It's a shame, because I'm as happy with the way this one came out as any comic I've done in a long time.

 

I suspect both viewing problems are my fault.  A couple of weeks ago, as if acting in concert, both Boing Boing and Gocomics simultaneously approached me about my posting the comics to those sites myself.  The previous method was that I'd email the comics to them, and they'd do whatever magic was necessary to make them appear on the websites at the proper time.  They both sent me instructions on how to do this myself, which were detailed and thorough, but unfortunately not idiot-proof.

 

As an example:  Gocomics sent me instructions on labeling the posted file with the code 110211 for the year, month and date.  Then Boing Boing sent me instructions to use the code 20110209.  I actually wrote an email back with what may be the dumbest question I've ever asked:  I said that I understood that 11 was the year, 02 was the month and 09 was the date, but asked what the 20 prefix was.  Apparently I forgot what millennium I was in.

 

Anyway, I ended up making what I think was the same technical mistake on both (RGB vs. CMYK?!), causing the comic to be unreadable by Internet Explorer.  Since the issue still isn't fixed on Gocomics, here is the comic, in a form that should be visible to everyone (I hope!).

 

000louis

 

By the way, one reader reported that he can only see the comic's colors, which is strange.  But he linked to that image — it created an interesting effect:

 

000louis colors