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Battle Cry Manhattan 5
This is certainly the largest strip I've ever done in terms of screen real estate, and it took more time than any other strip to create, with the art tiles needing to fit together and all the html table code... 750 by about 8000 pixels makes 6 million pixels. As a normal gif or jpg, an 87-panel strip this size would end up being at least a megabyte or two... instead it's 37 small image files totalling 67K, and the html code is another 65K...

I played around with unusual dimensions for a strip before with Bench 2270 (It's a long way down). The only previous strip I did with an html table was a simple proof-of-concept Stuff About Jeffles, which was hardly the browser stress test this one is! :) [If your browser can't see this strip, please let me know! I think most browsers should be able to handle this, but you never know...]

Some inspiration came from Scott McCloud's comic My Obsession with Chess. That's the only other online comic site I'm aware of that uses html tables to help lay out a very large comic which would otherwise be too large as a single image file. If you know of others, let me know!

Some inspiration of an entirely different sort came from Superosity's October 3 1999 strip.

10/5/2000 Tech note: the final panel seemed to sometimes not be displayed for some browsers; it's the only area of the table that uses rowspan as well as colspan, so I've broken it into halves and just used colspan. No panel should be displayed as black; all should show 3 people.

The first one in this series is September 25.


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