Aha!! So it could be my pop-up blocker! Right, that's now off.
Here (I hope) are the artworks I have been trying (and trying.....) to load.
DCThomson's Judy Comic late 1970s/early 1980s
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I think this is about as straightforward as it gets, Ron. It can get more complicated, believe me.
a. Scan your image on your A4 scanner.
b. Crop it.
c. Resize it to 750 pixels high (or wide).
d. Give the image a name.
e. Save it as a jpeg file.
For each post you are allowed to upload three images so you can do the above twice more if you wish.
f. Write your post.
g. Scroll up to Upload attachment.
h. Click on Browse. Your document file will appear.
i. Find the name of the jpeg file you have just created and click on it.
j. Click on Open. Your jpeg file name will then appear in the Filename box.
k. Click on Add the file in the File Comment section, which is just below the Filename section.
A box will appear at the top of your screen indicating that the file is being uploaded. When the box disappears the file will have been uploaded.
l. Click on the Preview box below your post, NOT the one below Posted attachments.
You should then see your post, below which will be your attachment(s).
m. If you are satisfied, click on Submit.
I will add an attachment to this post to show you what your finished product would look like. It will soon become second nature. Good luck.
a. Scan your image on your A4 scanner.
b. Crop it.
c. Resize it to 750 pixels high (or wide).
d. Give the image a name.
e. Save it as a jpeg file.
For each post you are allowed to upload three images so you can do the above twice more if you wish.
f. Write your post.
g. Scroll up to Upload attachment.
h. Click on Browse. Your document file will appear.
i. Find the name of the jpeg file you have just created and click on it.
j. Click on Open. Your jpeg file name will then appear in the Filename box.
k. Click on Add the file in the File Comment section, which is just below the Filename section.
A box will appear at the top of your screen indicating that the file is being uploaded. When the box disappears the file will have been uploaded.
l. Click on the Preview box below your post, NOT the one below Posted attachments.
You should then see your post, below which will be your attachment(s).
m. If you are satisfied, click on Submit.
I will add an attachment to this post to show you what your finished product would look like. It will soon become second nature. Good luck.
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f. Write your post.
g. Scroll up to Upload attachment. – I have to scroll down for the “Upload attachment†box, but I can cope with that
h. Click on Browse. Your document file will appear. - There is no Browse instruction on the page I get – I get a “Choose File†button, but I can find the file that way
i. Find the name of the jpeg file you have just created and click on it.
j. Click on Open. Your jpeg file name will then appear in the Filename box. - There is no “Open†button. I get “Choose†which appears to offer the same thing, so that seems fine so far. At this point the file name appears next to the “Choose File†button
k. Click on Add the file in the File Comment section, which is just below the Filename section. - Yep! That’s the same
A box will appear at the top of your screen indicating that the file is being uploaded. When the box disappears the file will have been uploaded.- Yep! It does that.
l. Click on the Preview box below your post, NOT the one below Posted attachments. - At this point only my verbal message shows up. This is evidently the stage at which things go awry.
I’m using a Mac G5 and Safari. I’ve done this kind of thing before on another website with no problems. I should be very sad indeed to find that I’m not going to get anywhere with this. But it’s certainly got me baffled
g. Scroll up to Upload attachment. – I have to scroll down for the “Upload attachment†box, but I can cope with that
h. Click on Browse. Your document file will appear. - There is no Browse instruction on the page I get – I get a “Choose File†button, but I can find the file that way
i. Find the name of the jpeg file you have just created and click on it.
j. Click on Open. Your jpeg file name will then appear in the Filename box. - There is no “Open†button. I get “Choose†which appears to offer the same thing, so that seems fine so far. At this point the file name appears next to the “Choose File†button
k. Click on Add the file in the File Comment section, which is just below the Filename section. - Yep! That’s the same
A box will appear at the top of your screen indicating that the file is being uploaded. When the box disappears the file will have been uploaded.- Yep! It does that.
l. Click on the Preview box below your post, NOT the one below Posted attachments. - At this point only my verbal message shows up. This is evidently the stage at which things go awry.
I’m using a Mac G5 and Safari. I’ve done this kind of thing before on another website with no problems. I should be very sad indeed to find that I’m not going to get anywhere with this. But it’s certainly got me baffled
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Re: DCThomson's Judy Comic late 1970s/early 1980s
Here's an easier method:
Save your image as a 72dpi image that's about 20cm wide. (Any wider than that and readers will have to scroll to see it fully.)
Go to http://tinypic.com/
Upload your image.
Copy the code for message boards.
Paste the code into your message that you post here and it'll appear as a picture.
Save your image as a 72dpi image that's about 20cm wide. (Any wider than that and readers will have to scroll to see it fully.)
Go to http://tinypic.com/
Upload your image.
Copy the code for message boards.
Paste the code into your message that you post here and it'll appear as a picture.
Re: DCThomson's Judy Comic late 1970s/early 1980s
Ah, that explains that part, Macs have different screens to Windows. The Open button is part of the standard Windows Open File dialog.RonTiner wrote:j. Click on Open. Your jpeg file name will then appear in the Filename box. - There is no “Open†button. I get “Choose†which appears to offer the same thing, so that seems fine so far. At this point the file name appears next to the “Choose File†button
I’m using a Mac G5 and Safari.
Re: DCThomson's Judy Comic late 1970s/early 1980s
and the school story fragment
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Hi again Ron, I remember your work from Tammy - there was "Linda's Fox" and various other stories. Seeing the illustrations of the "twins" story and "The Fifth Swanchild" has intrigued me - I'd love to find the comics these were in and read them! Did these both feature in Judy in the late 70s?
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Ah, good, you've got the attachments working now. 
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"Ah, good, you've got the attachments working now"
Yes. Your site seems to be a bit oversensitive when faced with Safari running on a Mac OSX. It's a lot easier using Firefox
"Didn't you hang on to copies of your work....?"
Perhaps it's difficult for fans to appreciate how very time-consuming drawing comics is. For DCThomson there could often be as many as twelve or fourteen frames to the page, and they had to be drawn twice-up on A2- size sheets of board. Thomson's page rates were not high so you needed to do at least four pages a week. For any artist this means working very long hours. Thomson tended to stockpile stories, and never told artists when the work was due to be published, nor did they send them copies, so keeping a record of everything was difficult. Almost everyone who worked for Thomson in those days has stories to tell of the frustrations they met with - especially regarding the way speech balloons and text panels were stuck on to the drawings, covering up vital areas of the frame or obliterating areas of drawing that the artist had taken special care over. The big advantage of working for them was that they always paid within a couple of days, and although we like to think of our art being above such mercenary considerations, the family's got to be fed and the bills paid.
So ......... no, I didn't keep copies very often, although at first I had photocopies of every page I did, and seeing them in print made me feel great, but ultimately you have to see it as a job. I always loved drawing comics, and Thomson scripts were varied and interesting, but there are far easier ways of making a living.
Yes. Your site seems to be a bit oversensitive when faced with Safari running on a Mac OSX. It's a lot easier using Firefox
"Didn't you hang on to copies of your work....?"
Perhaps it's difficult for fans to appreciate how very time-consuming drawing comics is. For DCThomson there could often be as many as twelve or fourteen frames to the page, and they had to be drawn twice-up on A2- size sheets of board. Thomson's page rates were not high so you needed to do at least four pages a week. For any artist this means working very long hours. Thomson tended to stockpile stories, and never told artists when the work was due to be published, nor did they send them copies, so keeping a record of everything was difficult. Almost everyone who worked for Thomson in those days has stories to tell of the frustrations they met with - especially regarding the way speech balloons and text panels were stuck on to the drawings, covering up vital areas of the frame or obliterating areas of drawing that the artist had taken special care over. The big advantage of working for them was that they always paid within a couple of days, and although we like to think of our art being above such mercenary considerations, the family's got to be fed and the bills paid.
So ......... no, I didn't keep copies very often, although at first I had photocopies of every page I did, and seeing them in print made me feel great, but ultimately you have to see it as a job. I always loved drawing comics, and Thomson scripts were varied and interesting, but there are far easier ways of making a living.
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Re: DCThomson's Judy Comic late 1970s/early 1980s
In American comics the inker Vince Colletta, when faced with a lot of detail eg Jack Kirby art, would simply erase some of the pencils to give himself less to ink. Artists weren't happy with this but as Vince had gangland connections nobody complained. I've noticed that some artists leave a space (or less detailed part of the panel) in anticipation of the lettering.
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".....I've noticed that some artists leave a space.... in anticipation of the lettering."
Yes. I once ,made the mistake of doing that on a strip I drew for DCThomson. The letterer just ignored the spaces I'd left, and stuck the balloons over drawn areas. The pages ended up looking very empty, with the spaces I'd left still blank, while areas that I'd drawn were obliterated by speech balloons. I had to admit that they held the upper hand and never did it again.
Dave Gibbons (I think it was Dave) told the story of a western script that required a frame in which the hero is shown riding over a hill to be confronted with, as the scriptwriter put it, "The entire Sioux nation". This was early in his career, and determined not to be beaten, he actually drew thousands of Indians ranged across distant hills, only to find the whole lot obliterated by the speech balloon saying something like "Ooh, look! Thousands of Indians!"
Yes. I once ,made the mistake of doing that on a strip I drew for DCThomson. The letterer just ignored the spaces I'd left, and stuck the balloons over drawn areas. The pages ended up looking very empty, with the spaces I'd left still blank, while areas that I'd drawn were obliterated by speech balloons. I had to admit that they held the upper hand and never did it again.
Dave Gibbons (I think it was Dave) told the story of a western script that required a frame in which the hero is shown riding over a hill to be confronted with, as the scriptwriter put it, "The entire Sioux nation". This was early in his career, and determined not to be beaten, he actually drew thousands of Indians ranged across distant hills, only to find the whole lot obliterated by the speech balloon saying something like "Ooh, look! Thousands of Indians!"
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This reminds me of a conversation I had about twelve years or so ago with the late Alan Hemus, a freelance writer who had quite a number of his text stories accepted by Thomsons. I remember asking him at some point if he could tell me the titles of all his serials that the company had published in any of their boys' papers. He was quite happy to give me details of those he could remember but, as in Ron's case, Alan didn't keep copies either, so in some instances he could just offer aspects of a theme or a plot and then I was usually able to give him the title. To other suggestions, he sometimes had to say things like I think I wrote that or I don't think that was one of mine. He did say that at the time he was writing his stories, and amending them when asked to do so by the editor he had been assigned to, he was just incredibly busy so he simply didn't have time to keep stock. For him also it was just a job. He also told me that he couldn't always recognise his work from the title Thomsons used for the published work because the editor was in the habit of changing the title without any consultation if he felt that Alan's working title wasn't sufficiently attractive or catchy. This policy did lead on one occasion to a real faux pas when the title of one of his serials in The Wizard in 1961 was changed to Where The Cold, Cold Chinook Blows. Alan was really scornful, saying that there was no way that was his original title because, as any fool knows, the Chinook is a warm wind.RonTiner wrote:Thomson tended to stockpile stories, and never told artists when the work was due to be published, nor did they send them copies, so keeping a record of everything was difficult.