Hi Maggie. I've been enjoying your blog (and linking to you regularly from my blog at stwallskull.com). The comic strip reprints are great... especially this one! However, they would be GREATLY improved if you provided links to larger versions of the images. Thanks for the comics, and please keep up the good work!

At this point, there is no set-up to permit larger versions, and I'm posting the images at the maximum width I'm supposed to use. I've raised the point with Kindly Matt, who helps us with many online concerns, and he has added the request to his Things To Check On list.

In the meantime, I'm struggling (could you tell?) with a recalcitrant scanner and software. My primary scanning computer has decided it has never been introduced to the printer-scanner, nor will it use the software, because the computer has decided it only has 16 colors available to it, yadda, yadda, yadda. Friends have come over from time to time to take a whack at the elderly computer and have succeeded in getting it to defrag itself and remove some nasty things. But Norton is rearing its ugly head and gumming up the works -- and when I tell computer people about it, they wince and shake their heads and mutting unprintable things about Norton. All of which is more than you need to know -- but goes to explain why I, too, am dissatisfied with the images.

If we all cross our fingers, I may at some point be able to re-scan the images in the future and/or have larger versions online someday. In the meantime, thanks for the encouragement and I'll go back to digging out material you may not have seen.

Hi again Maggie,

Thanks much for the reply. Odd Bodkins now too, this is good stuff!

I can't really advise much on the scanner or computer... my machine is showing its age too. I can offer a little advice on getting the images online, though. There are a number of free image hosting solutions out there where you could upload the images if you wanted and then have links to them from the posts. It is pretty common on blogs reprinting old comics to have a small image in a post with a link on it to a larger version of the image (this is what I do on my blog at stwallskull.com if you want an example... any of the "Crumbling Paper" posts do this). One very good and frequently used one is flickr.com. Note that if you decide to use flickr, you'll want to upload photographs there as well as comics and illustrations, as for some reason they don't like people to use it only for hosting artwork.

Thanks again, and good luck with the computer!

Thanks for the feedback! I'm still wrestling with my scanner but should have more material up shortly. One of the situations we have here is that this is a corporate site -- so posting such material as additional images elsewhere isn't an option for now. I have a different set-up on my personal website, www.maggiethompson.com, but even there we're not outsourcing images.

And, as noted, my scanner isn't letting me provide good images at the moment. Thanks for the good wishes; I AM planning more fun material!