Why?
I wanted something to portray the trading folklore with and laugh at, while trades are rolling and trading algorithms are being tested. [Because I don't smoke]
How are the comics licensed?
You don't have to worry much about ethics and "stealing", we keep a link to margincalled.com in our comics. We
You can simply grab the .png URL of the image, or of the post off the blog, whichever you like, embed them wherever you like. This link attribution will help the comics family get a wider reach, it's not interesting to publish and maintain content that people do not read.
If you use the .png URL on a non-final comic:
As of now, they are hosted on a blog which adds "salt" to the image URL, and I just happen to edit the comics at times, so when I upload them again, it does not replace the old ones but instead gets a new "salted" URL.
Where will the comics ultimately be published?
Ultimately, they will live under www.margincalled.com/comics, with pretty URLs that have stable IDs to identify them and "URL slugs", i.e, www.margincalled.com/comics/1/chuck-norris-of-forex-trading
They'll be posted without my personal comments, as to leave door open for the reader to use it in a suiting context of his/her/its own, as a response or contribution to a forum, chat, blog, and discussions for example.
Later on, www.margincalled.com will have more features under it.
Who makes them and how?
The Who:
`hawk` makes the scripts, not much creativity claimed, most of them are just a funny rendition of what I witness in the "folklore".
They are drawn by a girl artist, so kudos to her for the wiz dresses and hat from "Comic #1: Chuck Norris of Forex Trading" ;)
The How:
The "story" starts from something that I see on the internet, a website, a chat log, or a book etc. Then I make a script in a text file that has the dialogs, the emotions etc, with pictures to illustrate what I see in my head. Everything lives in a synchronized files repository for the collaborative process.
So for example to make the "Comic #1: Chuck Norris of Forex Trading", I'd just include a picture of a wizard with his hat, the dialogs, the emotions (see the ROFL). That's pretty much it, and we do lots of spins to converge into something easy to read and grasp.
Gear:
The How:
The "story" starts from something that I see on the internet, a website, a chat log, or a book etc. Then I make a script in a text file that has the dialogs, the emotions etc, with pictures to illustrate what I see in my head. Everything lives in a synchronized files repository for the collaborative process.
So for example to make the "Comic #1: Chuck Norris of Forex Trading", I'd just include a picture of a wizard with his hat, the dialogs, the emotions (see the ROFL). That's pretty much it, and we do lots of spins to converge into something easy to read and grasp.
Gear:
- Text editor software
- Files synchronizing software (we use this to sync text and images)
- Screenshots software
- Graphics authoring software
- A mouse [soon a graphics tablet]
