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Moving to a new blog!
From now on I'll be blogging at my new comics site. If you'd like to keep up with me, there's an RSS feed you can subscribe to (even by email). (If you like RSS feeds, I highly recommend you take feedly for a spin. It makes you a personalized magazine with all your feeds!)
Why am I moving?It has been a long, long time since I seriously kept up ( Read more... ) -
Rachel the Great is live
What better time to launch my new comics site RacheltheGreat.com than on my 26th birthday? Help me celebrate 9 years of pure awesome ( Read more... ) -
This show is over.
I turned in my resignation at my job yesterday, Valentine's Day (the perfect day for ending--and starting--relationships). It was a good job with cushy benefits, and it helped me get my jaw surgery done. But I'm bored, and I need more from life ( Read more... ) -
My Best Practices Guide to Designing a Web Comics Site
While designing my new site, I've been running readership surveys and wireframe tests, and you, my friends, have been helping me by participating.
From the results I notice a lot of recurring annoyances and frustrations with many prevailing web comics site design trends. So I made a guide to designing your web comics site to help you avoid all the ( Read more... ) -
Designing the "coming soon" page for RacheltheGreat.com + Contest!
Behold, a post about designing the "coming soon" page for RacheltheGreat.com. I thought it might be of some interest to those building their own comics sites. (Now quickly, read it and point out what atrocious spelling/grammar/political mistakes I have made ( Read more... ) -
Another way you can help me make the new rachelthegreat.com rock!
It's as simple as taking this survey. All I want to know is what you love and hate about web comics sites, their archives, their updates, their layouts. I thank you for your time! -
I left my spiked bracelet in New York City.
When i was recoverring from surgery, I prepared myself to have some kind of revelation about who I was becoming and what I should be doing with my life. Instead I came away knowing only that life is too short to spend living in uncomfortable climes ( Read more... ) -
Going to NYC, Oct 8th through 11th
I'm heading up to New York City on the Oct 8th through 11th to meet with several people I have not seen in a long time (or at all ( Read more... ) -
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina are misleading bastards.
This post started as a cheery update of how I'm doing, but between when I started writing and when I finished, I got some bad news. So that post is coming later.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina only wants to reimburse me for $2,000 of my $16,000 worth of pre-approved jaw surgery. Here's how my conversation with them went ( Read more... ) -
NYC in October
I have a friend from the UK who's touching ground in New York City from the 8th to 12th of October. I want to go up and battle Pokemon with him as well as see all my NYC friends (who I never see--pipe up, I'm making a list ( Read more... )