Seeya Old Archive!

Kris X · Post by **Kris X** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 7:43 am

Okay, IftP is actually going to be coming out with a plot and detailed comicking for my second year. I wonder how I can start fresh, but still keep my old archives. My best idea is to make an old archive button next to the first comic button. I like my old comics, but they might hold me back. So I guess I'm checking to see what other people do to truly archive their old comics.

The Neko · Post by **The Neko** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 10:00 am

I created an entirely separate site for my old comics. I also only have one link to it on my site, so... yeah. I'm not proud of my old work, but sometimes you have to swallow your pride and bite the bullet of previous mediocrity.

Dotty · Post by **Dotty** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 10:07 am

I have three old versions of the comic I'm doing now. The comic I'm doing now runs on a different story, but as far as what I do with them? They're all online at http://www.tdotcomics.com . The first two incarnations are there, but not on the page anywhere. You have to manually type in the days for them, cause I don't really wish to keep them anywhere.

War taught me if you keep your old stuff up with the new, people will constantly piss you off talking about how the older stuff is better.

Keffria · Post by **Keffria** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 7:33 pm

I hide mine on a Tripod site where no one will ever find them...

...Unless they look in the threads where I've linked them, or on my archives page...

Of course, if you really like your archives, don't distance yourself from them -- keep them easily accessible. I'd probably leave them where they are, unless your comic changes so dramatically that it'd be overly jarring for a new reader.

KathleenJ · Post by **KathleenJ** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 8:57 pm

I have my old comic archived seperately on my site, with a link in the menu bar. It varies from day to day whether I'm proud of it, or whether I want to take a blowtorch to it.

Kris X wrote:I like my old comics, but they might hold me back.

That was exactly my situation. The whole thing grew up to be a far different beast than the one I'd started three years earlier, and I didn't want the new stuff forever yoked to the crap at the beginning. So I made a clean break.

Leko · Post by **Leko** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 9:37 pm

I'd say leave 'em. I enjoy watching an artist's style evolve through all the strips. Course, that's just me, and it's pretty much proven that I'm insane. Anyway, I don't think you need to be ashamed of old strips. If anything, they make current art look better, and if you're afraid of them holding you back, just remember that it's YOUR strip--not the archives'. They don't decide what to draw, YOU do. Release your psychological shackles and taste sweet freedom!

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 2:15 am

I keep all my mcDuffies comics in one place.

Luprand · Post by **Luprand** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 8:38 am

One thing to remember is that once you separate the old archives from the new stuff, you cannot refer to anything that happened in them, because in the new story they technically didn't happen.

--Sij

Christwriter · Post by **Christwriter** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 11:56 am

I'd say leave it. Everybody else said the reasons. I'm another one of the people who enjoy reading the older stuff. Plus, when I look for a new comic to read, I look for a large archive with a recent update. And so much of the old IftP appeals to the bizzare part of my humor, I think it deserves to stick around for a while.

CW