Head in the Clouds Comic Strip

Today marks our eighth week for Head in the Clouds, and so far I must say I’m having a lot of fun with the site (mainly because all I have to do is write a bit and do some uploading) and it’s really satisfying to see Twiggles and Cobbe’s characters developing, largely thanks to Nick’s marvellous artwork. If you saw my original scratchy drawings that he has to work from you’d wonder how on Earth he puts up with it.

You will be glad(!) to know that we have plenty more in store for Twiggles and Cobbe - some longer story arcs and maybe even some “Sunday-size” strips.

We’re creeping up in the rankings on some of the comic sites, so a big thank you to all of you who click those buttons on the left, and an extra big thank you to all of you who have given us such great feedback here or on the forums.

Thank you to everyone for kind words and nominations for the WCRCA over at frumph.net. Voting takes place in October so no doubt Twiggles and Cobbe will mobilise the full power of their election campaign at that time.

Don’t blink or you’ll miss it.

I put a custom version of “Twiggles Wants YOU” into our E-card section, since he makes a great invitation card. Just add your own custom text on the bottom and blast him out to all your friends and family.

Our friends at frumph.net are running their WebComic Reader’s Choice Awards this month. You can make  nominations and view the canidates here at wcrca.frump.net

Twiggles heard about this and is now sending out a Call to Arms to all of his loyal fans. Or, as Cobbe put it: both of his loyal fans. You know who you are! Make him proud.

Well as you can see, we’re going to have to change the site admin password again. Twiggles got hold of it and now look what he’s done. Luckily Cobbe saw the funny side, in the end…

Of course when Twiggles gets his own website, he can do what he likes.

Also today: some new e-cards uploaded. They’re free to send and receive, so have a blast.

In fact, it would be a fine thing if Mr Googlebot would visit our site. At the moment he is studiously ignoring poor little Twiggles.

Thank goodness the web is not totally dominated by Google just yet - I’m delighted to say we seem to be making a lot of new friends even without the big search engines.

What the world evidently needs is a custom-built, niche targeted search engine just for online comics and web comics.

Our cameras were able to capture some footage of the kid in question:

YouTube link

I think I can safely say that we are brimming with pride to be able to bring you an online webcomic that engenders such happy emotions in our readers. Enjoy!

As well as today’s comic, I just added two more strips to the webcards area. The site is filling out nicely now - I think we’ve hit a rhythm.

Hope you enjoy today’s strip - it’s the start of a mini-story and may just be based on how I was when I set up my first website. “Build it and they will come”, my @$$

Incidentally, for you trivia afficianados, the use of characters such as “@#$%*!!” to represent swearing or bad language is called a grawlix. Mort Walker, the creator of Beetle Bailey coined the word in the 1960s.

Along with today’s strip, I’m really pleased to tell you that we have a new wallpaper design in our downloads area.

Secondly, you will spot a new link at the top right of the comic strip. This takes you to our brand-new e-card area where you can send Head in the Clouds comics to your friends and family, complete with your own message. It’s free, of course, easy to use and cards can be scheduled for delivery on a selected date, and picked up any time.

We’ll add new cards and strips as we go along; please let me know if there’s a specific strip you wish to send and I’ll make sure it’s available.

We’ve been running the site for a couple of weeks now, and things seem to be working really nicely. To everyone who was kind enough to give us feedback, subscribe or link to us: thank you very much. We appreciate your support and interest, and I hope we keep you entertained for a long time to come. We’re still just warming up!

Something I’ve noticed is that the characters are starting to take on a life of their own, and I confess that as I go about my day, I sometimes find myself wondering, “what would Twiggles do?”

It’s getting to the point that occasionally I start a strip with one idea, but by the 3rd or 4th panel Twiggles or Cobbe has taken the story somewhere else because that’s what they want to do, not what I want them to do! At this rate I’ll have a rebellion on my hands, and knowing Twiggles, it will be catered.

Till the next time,

Nick & Tim

A quick post to apologise to new subscribers who may have discovered that instead of receiving our Head in the Clouds RSS / email, received a feed from Codex Transportica, one of our sibling sites.

We’ve now corrected the problem, so normal service will be resumed. But I hope you enjoyed the Codex Transportica even if you didn’t expect it!