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Coming to America

I’ve been noodling about in Inkscape, and reading The Order Of The Stick, a webcomic. It’s got a unique visual style, which always makes me laugh, and I thought (despite my lack of artistic ability): I wonder if I could do that?

LugRadio Coming to America

(there’s the SVG too to look at, which is a better size, although it’s 1MB because of the embedded images)

I’m not brilliantly happy with Chris or Adam, but I think Jono and I came out OK :)

Maybe I should do a LugRadio webcomic.

Inkscape’s a really good tool, by the way. The people who do it should feel very proud. I am distinctly short of artistic ability, and I’ve barely used Inkscape before, and I managed to put that together in relatively short order. Good work, Inkscape team.

Oh, yes, and LugRadio Live USA is this Saturday. We’re coming to America. Get ready.

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11 Responses to “Coming to America”

  1. Haha, well done. :D

    Eyegore
    87 minutes later

  2. +1 on the webcomic, and +1 for inkscape.

    But your openid is not working, I logged on my provider after posting the comment, but I was redirected back to a login form on your wordpress blog, and not back here.

    Rob
    2 hours later

  3. Rob: hrm, yeah. I’ve upgraded to WP2.5, and I’ve just upgraded the wp-openid plugin, and OpenID auth doesn’t seem to be working properly. Bug filed at googlecode.

    sil
    3 hours later

  4. ROFL - Excellent!

    mrben
    19 hours later

  5. Looking at it again, Chris looks a bit Family Guy-ish….

    mrben
    23 hours later

  6. mrben: and I quote, “my lack of artistic ability”. This is a bit new to me, this :)

    sil
    26 hours later

  7. i agree that Chris does look a bit family guyish in the pic, but is a good cartoon otherwise!

    i think you should do a regular LUGRadio webcomic!! you could tell us all abnout your trip to US then!!

    hope everything goes well for LRLUS and see you at LRLUK

    Babyron
    46 hours later

  8. Haha, nice. Make sure you vacuum defs if you have unused gradients and other definitions which will – depending on their complexity – lower the file size down further. See File -> Vacuum defs.

    Finally, saving it as an SVGz should help too (and it can handle embedded raster images).

    Have fun at LRL US; wish I could make it, but being Down-Under kinda messes up that idea.

    Kudos.

    Simon Pascal Klein
    4 days later

  9. bit bored when i came back from the pub tonight, so i made this..

    http://mat.tl/img/aqjono1.png

    also, svg in the same folder. i’d like to release it as BY-SA, if that’s cool with you? i couldn’t find any license on your blog.

    matt lee
    8 days later

  10. Matt: fine, no problem. Consider the image above licenced as CC-BY-SA.

    sil
    8 days later

  11. Did you hear the Inkscape tutorials at Linux Reality? They were pretty good:
    http://www.linuxreality.com/podcast/episode-82-inkscape-part-1/
    http://www.linuxreality.com/podcast/episode-83-inkscape-part-2/

    mjjzf
    2 weeks later

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