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Valley of the Silk Sky: The Long Run – page 74

Drey? Quiet leaf? What the heck? If you need a refresher, pages 12 and 13 can help you out.

And now, page 73 of Valley of the Silk Sky

Page 73

It’s Thursday, which means it’s time for another installment of Valley of the Silk Sky. Page 73 is now up, and you can read it here:

on Studio NDR
on Tumblr

Since everyone knows teenagers always make good decisions, you can expect the next page to be the final page of the book. It just says, “And then everything turned out fine. The End.”

SPEAKING OF EVERYTHING TURNING OUT FINE: As I posted on Tuesday, I believe the redesign for Studio NDR is basically done. I’m sure I will find stray bits and pieces that need to be fixed/improved, but these should (in theory) be minor corrections.

So please do have a look around. I added a bunch of comics that hadn’t been collected on here before, and streamlined the content to focus on stronger, more recent work.

Cheers,

Dylan

Valley of the Silk Sky: The Long Run – page 73

Website redesign is basically done, I think?

I mean, there are more minor tweaks here and there, and I’m sure I’ll find some typos or whatever, but the bulk of the work is done.

I took down about 300 pages of comics and art, leaving a mere … 250 pages of comics and art for you to peruse. The guiding principle for what got cut and what stayed was framing this site as more of a portfolio and less of an archaeological dig through every single comic I’ve ever bothered to create. So the focus now is on more recent work.

That does mean I took down the anti-Valentine’s Day cards. They were at one time the most popular thing on this site, but they don’t really fit in with anything else I do (so they weren’t driving traffic to the rest of my work), and I haven’t felt motivated to make any new ones in several years. So eh. On to new things!

I also removed all the comment boxes. In the five years I had comments enabled here, I think I got a grand total of sixteen non-spam comments. Obviously this was not a feature people were all that interested in using! I’ve found people are more likely to communicate via Twitter or Tumblr than a comment box. Other cute but non-essential widgets got pulled, like tag clouds, cuz mostly it was adding clutter more than anything else.

Because the redesign involved a major under-the-hood rebuild, I ended up deleting basically all the old pages and started from scratch. That means any permalinks you might have set up will probably no longer work, so I guess check yer bookmarks.

There are some big improvements: the new structure is responsive, so you should now be able to view the site on tablets and phones and have it adapt to your device.

I also learned a new way to save graphics that cuts the file size dramatically without sacrificing quality. A great many comics on here are now bigger and clearer while also chopping about 1.5MB off the file size. That should mean faster load times (and less data usage for folks on mobile devices).

I finally added a new section for my autobio comics. Most of these weren’t on the site before (or were difficult to find), so take a spin around and see what there is to see!

Cheers,

Dylan

Nibbles – Gun Culture

This comic was originally published by The Nib as part of a multi-cartoonist Response feature on gun culture in America. You can read all the comics here.

Nibbles – Banned Books

This comic was originally published by The Nib as part of a multi-cartoonist Response feature on banned books. You can read all the comics here.

Nibbles – Trans Potty

This comic was originally published by The Nib as part of a multi-cartoonist Response feature on trans bathroom issues. You can read all the comics here.

Nibbles – The Shit I Gotta Come Out About

On Reflection – page 3

On Reflection – page 2