Update: M_F (https://sh.itjust.works/u/[email protected] has ) has kindly stepped up to be lead moderator on all the comic communities! That makes me very happy that they will continue!!! If you reached out to help, please work with M_F directly. Thanks again M_F!!!

TLDR: I’m sad to report that I will no longer be posting daily comics as I just don’t have the time :( If anyone wants to take over the daily posts, please DM me. Ideally, there would be 2-3 people to split up posting duties to make it easier.

The longer story is, I run my own graphics business which is my regular full-time gig. On top of that, at the beginning of the year. I started my lifelong passion project and created my own comic strip called Bello Bear (https://sh.itjust.works/c/[email protected]). Sadly, there is only so much time in day and running a full-time business, a passion project, and also having some sort of home life at the same time is just not possible.

Even though posting the daily comics is only about a half hour of my time, it adds up. It’s also 7 days a week and though I’m a creature of habit, it is a grind. I would rather dedicate that time to my passion project, which is currently limited to only Mon, Wed, and Friday releases as I’m already stretched thin.

This is effective immediately for the following communities…

Calvin and Hobbes https://sh.itjust.works/c/[email protected]

The Far Side https://sh.itjust.works/c/thefarside

Garfield https://sh.itjust.works/c/[email protected]

Bloom County  https://sh.itjust.works/c/[email protected]

Cyanide and Happiness https://sh.itjust.works/c/[email protected]

If you are interested taking over the reigns for any of the comic communities, please DM me.

  • @IMALlamaEnglish
    17•5 days ago

    Thanks for posting the comics and congrats on running a successful business!

    This seems like something that a bot could do via the Lemmy API, no? Granted, a number of folks block bot posts.

    • MrSebSinOPMEnglish
      14•5 days ago

      You are welcome and thank you very much. I’m guessing a bot could do it, but that is certainly not in my wheelhouse of expertise to setup.

      • MentalEdgeEnglish
        20•5 days ago

        It would be mine.

        My mind-boggling rate of posting is enabled by my augmenting the process with custom tools I maintain myself.

        It’s also how I post to [email protected] which I started inspired by the calvin and hobbes posts. (Though I haven’t yet made it run daily without my intervention, each post only takes a second of my day, zero, when I get around to have it run on its own).

        If you have all the strips and their dates stored digitally in some way, I’d be more than happy to help keep the daily posts going, by potentially entirely automating the process.

          • MentalEdgeEnglish
            20•5 days ago

            I hope you find some other people to moderate, as I have already taken on more than enough on that plate (two dozen communities and counting). Sooner or later I’ll be in your position, looking for people to help me mod, rather than being the one offering to mod 😅

            But, the short term work of writing a bot to do this and perhaps then even running it for you (indefinitely even) is within reason. If you like, DM me with a way to contact you on discord or matrix. I’d love to hear where you source the comics and dates for all your comics communities.

            Perhaps I can make something generic enough that with just some configuration it could work for all your communities.

            • ChrisEnglish
              7•5 days ago

              Please take MentalEdge up on this offer! ☝️

          • MentalEdgeEnglish
            5•5 days ago

            I’m using the pythorhead library in python.

            Makes interaction with lemmy in code very easy.

        • @hereforthepopcornEnglish
          7•5 days ago

          Oh that would be so great to keep the daily posts going through an automation!

        • @IMALlamaEnglish
          3•5 days ago

          Thanks for stepping in, I was hoping my post would prompt someone to either point to an existing solution or offer to help. You did both!