{"id":1040,"date":"2009-02-19T18:39:01","date_gmt":"2009-02-20T01:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/?p=1040"},"modified":"2009-02-19T18:41:19","modified_gmt":"2009-02-20T01:41:19","slug":"dogs-a-webcomic-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/?p=1040","title":{"rendered":"Dogs: A Webcomic Experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d like to invite everyone to participate in a comic experiment I&#8217;ve just started, called Dogs.<\/p>\n<p>The idea is based a little off of some meditations on Charles Dickens public readings, the nature of the internet, and just wanting to have a little fun.\u00c2\u00a0 The comic is not.<\/p>\n<p>So what I&#8217;ve done is draw the first 27 pages of story, which provides a cast of characters, a setting, and several possible plot devices and hooks.\u00c2\u00a0 The hope is that you, the reader, will drop by and leave comments.\u00c2\u00a0 Who you think is who.\u00c2\u00a0 What you think is what.\u00c2\u00a0 What will happen next?\u00c2\u00a0 And so on.<\/p>\n<p>Then I draw more pages of story and around and around it goes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uttertoadcomix.livejournal.com\/2009\/02\/17\/\">The full &#8220;rules&#8221;, and story, are here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(I know, I know.\u00c2\u00a0 LJ is made of blinking lights and fail.\u00c2\u00a0 So is my knowledge of code.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/heavenrender\/sets\/72157613936662299\/\">You can also find it here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A sample page:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3397\/3286027747_e734a62e48.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"331\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Oh, yeah.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m also doing it all in a ballpoint pen.\u00c2\u00a0 No, seriously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d like to invite everyone to participate in a comic experiment I&#8217;ve just started, called Dogs. The idea is based a little off of some meditations on Charles Dickens public readings, the nature of the internet, and just wanting to have a little fun.\u00c2\u00a0 The comic is not. So what I&#8217;ve done is draw the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/?p=1040\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dogs: A Webcomic Experiment<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd8gD-gM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1040"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1043,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040\/revisions\/1043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}