Comments on: The Hots return – and need your help http://blog.ninapaley.com/2009/07/22/the-hots-return-and-need-your-help/ Formerly America's Best-Loved Unknown Cartoonist, now independently animating a feature film, "Sita Sings the Blues." Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:55:48 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Tim http://blog.ninapaley.com/2009/07/22/the-hots-return-and-need-your-help/comment-page-1/#comment-37174 Tim Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:35:30 +0000 http://blog.ninapaley.com/2009/07/22/the-hots-return-and-need-your-help/#comment-37174 It looks like all of the color Sundays are fine. I've got the dailys and the B&W Sundays all fixed with a .png extension. It looks like all of the color Sundays are fine. I’ve got the dailys and the B&W Sundays all fixed with a .png extension.

]]> By: Tim http://blog.ninapaley.com/2009/07/22/the-hots-return-and-need-your-help/comment-page-1/#comment-37173 Tim Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:02:21 +0000 http://blog.ninapaley.com/2009/07/22/the-hots-return-and-need-your-help/#comment-37173 OK, I've fixed the missing .png problem. I just need to download the B&W and color Sundays to fix them and know where to upload them up back up to. We want to be careful of version control (and have some people working off of one set of files and another with a different set). Next is the file renaming. Did someone come up with a list of file names and associated dates? OK, I’ve fixed the missing .png problem. I just need to download the B&W and color Sundays to fix them and know where to upload them up back up to. We want to be careful of version control (and have some people working off of one set of files and another with a different set).

Next is the file renaming. Did someone come up with a list of file names and associated dates?

]]> By: admin http://blog.ninapaley.com/2009/07/22/the-hots-return-and-need-your-help/comment-page-1/#comment-37172 admin Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:40:15 +0000 http://blog.ninapaley.com/2009/07/22/the-hots-return-and-need-your-help/#comment-37172 Olz - YES! Please share. Thanks! Olz – YES! Please share. Thanks!

]]> By: Holly Duthie http://blog.ninapaley.com/2009/07/22/the-hots-return-and-need-your-help/comment-page-1/#comment-37170 Holly Duthie Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:37:28 +0000 http://blog.ninapaley.com/2009/07/22/the-hots-return-and-need-your-help/#comment-37170 I think you should. I apologize for not putting the .png on each one; I thought Photoshop would do that automagically but I was wrong. I do think it'd be easier for whoever works on those files to just fix it than for me to do it and re-upload the whole shebang, anyway. I wonder if it would make sense to break the three big files into smaller files so more people could work at once? Then we could "sign them out" here in this thread to avoid duplicating effort. But if someone is working on a way to automate the whole process, this step would be (happily) obviated! I think you should.

I apologize for not putting the .png on each one; I thought Photoshop would do that automagically but I was wrong. I do think it’d be easier for whoever works on those files to just fix it than for me to do it and re-upload the whole shebang, anyway.

I wonder if it would make sense to break the three big files into smaller files so more people could work at once? Then we could “sign them out” here in this thread to avoid duplicating effort.

But if someone is working on a way to automate the whole process, this step would be (happily) obviated!

]]> By: admin http://blog.ninapaley.com/2009/07/22/the-hots-return-and-need-your-help/comment-page-1/#comment-37169 admin Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:08:30 +0000 http://blog.ninapaley.com/2009/07/22/the-hots-return-and-need-your-help/#comment-37169 That's what I was hoping the Crowd could figure out. Although we do have the same set of Hots strips from King Features' digital archive, which have publication dates. Someone could match up my versions (which are slightly better in that none of the art is obscured by the "Dist. by King Features Syndicate Inc." ) with King's dated versions. But it will require looking at each and every strip. It's a big project. Should I upload those for reference? That’s what I was hoping the Crowd could figure out.

Although we do have the same set of Hots strips from King Features’ digital archive, which have publication dates. Someone could match up my versions (which are slightly better in that none of the art is obscured by the “Dist. by King Features Syndicate Inc.” ) with King’s dated versions. But it will require looking at each and every strip. It’s a big project.

Should I upload those for reference?

]]> By: Tim http://blog.ninapaley.com/2009/07/22/the-hots-return-and-need-your-help/comment-page-1/#comment-37168 Tim Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:04:40 +0000 http://blog.ninapaley.com/2009/07/22/the-hots-return-and-need-your-help/#comment-37168 Nina, any chance of being able to come up with a list of which comics were published when? Nina, any chance of being able to come up with a list of which comics were published when?

]]> By: Olz http://blog.ninapaley.com/2009/07/22/the-hots-return-and-need-your-help/comment-page-1/#comment-37167 Olz Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:04:19 +0000 http://blog.ninapaley.com/2009/07/22/the-hots-return-and-need-your-help/#comment-37167 I saved these strips when they first ran and named the files- The Hots yyyy/mm/dd. If it would help I'd be happy to provide a copy of my archive. I saved these strips when they first ran and named the files- The Hots yyyy/mm/dd. If it would help I’d be happy to provide a copy of my archive.

]]> By: Tim http://blog.ninapaley.com/2009/07/22/the-hots-return-and-need-your-help/comment-page-1/#comment-37166 Tim Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:08:44 +0000 http://blog.ninapaley.com/2009/07/22/the-hots-return-and-need-your-help/#comment-37166 We can probably strip all the names off and rename the files TheHotsDailys0001.png but I don't know what order the files should be in. Also, I'm not a web guy so trying to decipher the Wikimedia form to upload a file is proving to be a challenge. We can probably strip all the names off and rename the files TheHotsDailys0001.png but I don’t know what order the files should be in.

Also, I’m not a web guy so trying to decipher the Wikimedia form to upload a file is proving to be a challenge.

]]> By: admin http://blog.ninapaley.com/2009/07/22/the-hots-return-and-need-your-help/comment-page-1/#comment-37164 admin Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:26:10 +0000 http://blog.ninapaley.com/2009/07/22/the-hots-return-and-need-your-help/#comment-37164 Good point michael. If I'd named the original files consistently back in 2002/2003, that would have helped. But I didn't. Indeed, cataloging these things is a mess, which is why I just threw everything out there. Good point michael. If I’d named the original files consistently back in 2002/2003, that would have helped. But I didn’t. Indeed, cataloging these things is a mess, which is why I just threw everything out there.

]]> By: michael http://blog.ninapaley.com/2009/07/22/the-hots-return-and-need-your-help/comment-page-1/#comment-37163 michael Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:48:10 +0000 http://blog.ninapaley.com/2009/07/22/the-hots-return-and-need-your-help/#comment-37163 would love to help - but there is no easy way to know what someone has uploaded already and hasn't... You'll need to provide some way for people to know this. would love to help – but there is no easy way to know what someone has uploaded already and hasn’t…

You’ll need to provide some way for people to know this.

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