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Another Sci-Fi Webcomic Birthday

Wednesday, May 4th, 2011

One Small Step by Joe Kandra just turned five years old!

Here’s what I said about it when I did a guest strip there last year:

“For those of you (anybody?) unfamiliar with the comic, it’s a sci-fi comedy about a guy named Doug who accidentally creates a hyperspace generator in a prototype minivan, and winds up traveling with some aliens he meets on the first planet he crashes into. (I could go into more detail here, but it’d be a lot more fun for you if you just go read the archives there!)”

(And that’s still true!) :)

Next Month

Saturday, April 30th, 2011

Station V3’s 8th birthday is coming up next month (on the 6th), to be followed by the annual guest strip week!

In the meantime, there’s a new voting bonus up at TopWebcomics – a sprite strip, with a topic taken from the bonus requests topic on the forum. (Which has been pretty active lately! Check it out, even if only to vote in the favorite robot poll.)

More Fun with the Drawing Tablet

Monday, April 4th, 2011

I’ve been having fun with the Wacom Bamboo tablet… I’m still not sure if I’d use it on a regular basis for Station V3, but I have been drawing Z7 with it for the past few weeks!

Also drawn with the tablet… A new voting bonus! This one’s from a request on the forum.

A Webcomic Rumor

Thursday, March 24th, 2011

Rumor has it Willow’s Grove is a fun sci-fi comic!

Some guys from a town in Pennsylvania find a spaceship – which then takes off with them in it. Read it today and see what happens next! (And I recommend the book, too!)

Years In Review

Sunday, January 9th, 2011

My goals for Station V3 for the past few years have been pretty basic: 1. Keep updating. 2. Try to get more people to read it. 3. Keep having fun doing it.

So how did I do?

Goal 1: You can see on the archive calendar that the first goal was accomplished! Z7 and Silence in the Darkness on Q16 also kept updating on schedule, and even Ebb’s Children had a few new strips go up.

Goal 2: The site logs are telling me this one was accomplished! 2009 was a very busy year for Station V3 in terms of site traffic, and 2010 was even better. So a big Thank You to everyone who read the comic and/or helped spread the word!

Goal 3: If this one wasn’t accomplished, I wouldn’t be here telling you this! :)

The goals for 2011 are the same, but with “Get the second book finished already!” added. Also I’ll try to be a little more active in terms of updating the blog, putting up bonus strips, drawing guest strips for other comics, etc.

Some info from the 2010 site logs:

  • The top 5 browsers being used to visit the site are Firefox (47.2%), Internet Explorer (29.4%), Chrome (9.5%), Opera (7.1%), and Safari (3.7%).
  • Windows led the operating systems list at 86.7%, followed by Linux at 6% and Mac at 5.9%.
  • The top 10 countries with the most page views were the US, the UK, Germany, Canada, Australia, Poland, the Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, and Romania.
  • The most visited archive page for the year was the first one. (No surprise there! That was also true in 2009. And I think every year before that.)
  • The top 3 most visited archive pages for new strips in 2010 were June 26, February 28, and March 13.

Again, thanks for reading in 2010, and I hope you enjoy what’s coming in 2011!