Funzietown

BIG apologies to anyone who tried to access the site just before 12:00 PM EST today (12/30/08) during our unscheduled disaster recovery test.

In other words, I am an idiot and deleted the entire site while trying to get rid of an older version I don't use any more. Yikes.

Fortunately I keep a copy in Microsoft MESH and was able to pull it out and put everything back pretty quickly. I'm guessing it was gone for about 10-20 minutes...

Again I apologize for my general lack of intelligence!

I hope everyone has a wonderful day with family and friends.

Saddly we missed our Christmas Eve candlelight service because our son was ill. I really enjoy singing Silent Night in the darkened sanctuary with the light of hundreds of candles. It is a truly moving time.

There won't be a new comic up today I'm afraid due to technical difficulty. I had to rebuild my computer and haven't yet gotten the scanner to work. I'm hoping to get it back among the living and get the strip on Friday.

Don't forget to click the Contact Us link up above and let me know what you think about the comic. I'd love to hearfrom you!

Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night!

jeffa

OK, so I did manage to get the scanner back online and get today's strip up. It's a Christmas miracle! Well, maybe not a miracle, but fairly unlikely...

Once again, Merry Christmas to all from Funzietown!

If you like comics like Tintin, Buck Rogers, and Little Orphan Annie, be sure to check out our Store!.

You can find collections of those comics and many, many more!

If you're like me you loved those comics as a kid. I'm really enjoying reading them to my kids now, too.

When I was in elementary school our school's library had Tintin's Destination Moon and Explorers On The Moon as well as a giant collection of Buck Rogers comic strips. Needless to say I read them every chance I got. I'd have to say those are the biggest influences on my comic here too. I hope you like it, by the way!

I'd love to hear what you think of my site and my comic, so please click the Contact Us link and drop me a line!

jeffa

After a fair amount of work I have the new site up and running.

It's been a long time since I did much webwork and this has been a chance for me to brush up.

Hopefully this site will be easy to use. I'm especially keen on making my site accessible to people with visual disabilities. Comics are an inherently visual medium, but I'd like to try very hard to make them enjoyable for everyone.

Towards that end I'm making the image's ALT tag include a summary of the comic. Don't know if anyone would enjoy this via a screen-reader or not, but I'd like to try... If you normally use a screen-reader and you give the comics a try, please send me a note to let me know what you think. You can send it to jeffa@funzietown.com.

A side effect of this process is that I can set up a Google search on my site so that you can search for a particular comic. Just type in a bit of dialog or a description and see how it works.

That's it for now. I have some more work to do on the website and then I'll get back to posting comics on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

jeffa