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Bando's Comic Wizard

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Do you have a long-form comic and want to publish it online, especially on Newgrounds? Well, wait no longer! Here's Bando's Comic Wizard! This utility allows you to embed your comic pages or even just images into a viewer ready to be uploaded to the Games Portal.


Smooth streaming comics and image viewers can be yours in just a few steps! The wizard itself will walk you through the entire process, but basically you number your pages, put them in a folder with your comics title, and drag and drop. The utility then let's you download a zip file that's ready to upload.


This is the same technology that we here at Montrose use to publish Paradise Slice, but now in easy to use drag and drop "wizard" form that's hosted right here on Newgrounds!


The viewer features:


  • Smooth streaming of pages using intelligent preloading
  • No additional image compression
  • Loading indicator
  • Mouse navigation
  • Touch navigation
  • Arrow-key navigation
  • Browser navigation (forward and back)
  • Compatibility with browser zoom-in and zoom-out
  • Bookmarking
  • "Right-click* image saving


In addition to being ready to upload to Newgrounds, the zip files the wizard produces are a hybrid format that's also ready to server from a generic web server (just uncompress into a served directory) and can be read by most dedicated comic viewer apps (you may need to rename the .zip to a .cbz). So it's a very useful for comic artists!


If you like this sort of thing, check out our Newgrounds Art Scheduler.


We're always on the lookout for bugs! Please let us know if you find any or have any questions! Happy Comicking!


Browser Requirements:

Bando's Comic Wizard requires folder (webkitdirectory) drag and drop support. Brave, Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Safari have been tested and are known to work. Opera GX in unsupported.


Credits:

Programming: @alsoknownas1

GFX: @KittyhawkMontrose

Music: @Dieswyx

Fonts Used: League Spartan

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Everything was fine, until everyone, even the artists, got upset about The Nintendo 64 Collab Gallery because they wanted music and backgrounds, and the artists gave up to zero stars to the collab gallery just because it was made.

This has already become stupid, and I think people would throw shit at this game because of the above.

I prefer not to get involved in this controversy since I am new since January 19, and I do not want to get into controversy now.

I hope you are not offended by what is happening, but they will make another art gallery, but this time from a different game engine.

This has already become a circus or a zoo.

Also this a good concept.....

KittyhawkMontrose responds:

Hey, it's a good collab. All collabs have some drama. If they don't, they don't get seen usually! :D But no worries, Bando's for Everyone! We're gonna add some new features soon, so that'll help future collabs too. Take the criticism, hate the haters, and make good stuff. 💖

This looks cool, and it looks ideal if you make comics or even host a collab. The only thing I will suggest is to add an MP3 or WAV input if background music plays on a HTML file we prepared. It would be much nicer than without any music.

KittyhawkMontrose responds:

Yay! I'm so glad you think it's cool, and I'm also happy to hear you want to use it on the next collab. 💖 No worries about music. It's on the list, along with some other fun stuff.

When newgrounds says “Everything by everyone”, I’m pretty sure Tom didn’t expect people to go this far! Good job @kittyhawkmontrose and @alsoknownas1

KittyhawkMontrose responds:

Thank you so much! We want to give back to Newgrounds because of how much this place does for us and means to us. 😊

I Love It!

Hey this is sick! I might have to give this tool a whirl but I was wondering if there was any way for the pages to be in two-page view by default? It's just how I prefer my comics to be presented, and if that's not an option should I just make every page a "spread" to achieve that effect?

Again, really cool tool! I've been wanting NG to have something like this for a bit now.

KittyhawkMontrose responds:

Hey! I'm glad you like it, and I hope you have fun using it. That's a good idea for an update, adding spreads! For now, just combine two pages for a spread effect, that's what I do.

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