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Head in the Clouds Comic Strip
a bird-brained comic strip updated every Monday and Thursday
So Head in the Clouds (and many other sites) got hacked on Sunday, and some redirection code was inserted into the site which sent unsuspecting RSS Feed readers to a MalWare site in Moldavia.
We have now corrected this problem (with little help from our ISP I’m sorry to say) so it just remains for me to apologize if you suddenly found yourself on some strange new site!
If anyone a) lives in Moldavia and b) does cheap assassinations, please contact Twiggles and Cobbe. They may have a job for you.
Twiggles and Cobbe are back, and as you can see, feisty as ever.
But I hope you enjoyed the Eggs earlier in the week- we’ve got quite a few of their strips lined up; we just need to decide whether to post them on here or give the Eggs their very own site.
Twiggles is off today, trying to track down Cobbe who, as you know, was last seen screaming (literally) through the air at 220mph on the back of a magic broom.
They’ll be back in the next few days, but until then we’ve a guest strip to share with you: “Eggs is eggs.”
Starring, well, three eggs, the new strip will pop up on every now and then. I hope you enjoy.
I hope you’ve all got your Jack O’ Lanterns carved and your scary costumes at the ready for tomorrow night. The scariest thing about Twiggles’ costume was that we let him use scissors in the first place: as you can see he didn’t quite get the hang of cutting eye-holes.
Anyway, in special celebration (let’s call it our treat for all you would-be tricksters) we’ll be uploading a bonus strip on Friday the 31st too, so be sure to come back and see us then!
The frumph WCRCA votes are in! Alas, no, we didn’t win, but did place a fairly respectable 7th in both the Design and the New Strip categories. Not bad, I think, for a comic that was only 20 strips old at the time.
Thank you again to all of you who voted, and of course congratulations to the winners.
Luckily, Jason Sigler of Digital Strips & Amazing Superzeroes fame was kind enough to point out that we have been reviewed on Show # 145
http://www.digitalstrips.com/2008/10/digital-strips-show-145.html
This show is in the form of a ‘cast which you can listen to online. It’s a very entertaining 25 minutes and we’ll be tuning in regularly from now on.
Huge thanks to Jason for picking Head in the Clouds, and of course to Steve and Brigid for so many kind words.
… about the Fleen review. How could you tell?
Cobbe is feeling especially smug, since he wrote his own Haiku on the spot in panel 3. What a clever bird!
In other news, the Frumph voting is going well, and we greatly appreciate your support. No idea if we win a prize or anything, but as you know we’re only in it for the glory and the greater good of mankind… pffft.
I had a couple of people contact me this week asking about voting on the WCRCA at frumph.net, so here’s a simple step-by-step you can follow to make the magic happen:
1) Go to http://wcrca.frumph.net/
2) On the top middle you will see a link to “REGISTER”. Unfortunately you do have to register to vote, but frumph is a good site to be a member of if you like webcomics.
3) Sign up via the registration link, and wait for your confirmation email. This might take a few minutes, and watch out that it’s not in your SPAM folder.
4) Now you can go back to http://wcrca.frumph.net/, and this time on the top bar click the “LOGIN” link.
5) Now on the left you will see all the categories. We’ve been nominated in two of the categories: Design and Newest
6) In each category you will see the nominees. Please note you can only vote for one comic per category, so I hope you can guess which comic will benefit from your wild clicking.
7) Anyway, look for “Head in the Clouds” and give it a thumbs up!
(Obviously you can vote for any comic you like in any category. As much as we’d like you to vote for us, there are loads of excellent comics in there)
If you’re new to the strip, you may wonder how Twiggles and Cobbe ended up stuck to the front of a Jumbo Jet. Well, as they say on all the best TV series: “Previously on HITC” should explain everything.
Voting has started for the Web Comic Readers Choice Awards over at frumph.net and I’m really pleased to say we’ve been nominated both in the Design and the Newest categories, and have even picked up several votes already.
If you would like to show your support, why not head on over there right now and give us the thumbs-up? A big thank you to all who have voted, or who will do.
First, I need to apologise for the bad pun that graces today’s cartoon. Waddya mean, you don’t get it? Am I the only one with a thesaurus around here?
Second, you’ll notice we dropped the banner from the top of the page. Part of our drive to ultimately become an ad-free webcomic! As soon as this thing is self-sufficient you will enjoy pure 100% HITC without the fluff. Until then, we just have to suck up those AdWords.
Last, but very much not least (well, from our egos’ point of view anyway) we got a really nice mini-review from the Fleen Team (find the blog here at www.fleen.com) so thank you very much folks!
