StripReprints.com

Comic strip reprint books you'll want... nay, need!

Development notes

November 9, 2026

  • The site now has a Bluesky account at https://bsky.app/profile/stripreprints.com — when you add a new book, a post will automatically be generated, with the featured image and the opening text.
  • Consider adding either a sample strip or a sample book page/spread to the bottom of your posts; that is apt to give a better sense of the work than the cover does. Examples: Spreads, strip sample (in that case, just half a strip.)

November 1, 2026

  • I’m realizing that the “Publisher” cateogry is not actually needed, because the publisher of each post is identified by the post author. Eliminating the category will reduce the visual noise on the images on the front page of the site. I will take at least a day to make sure that I’m not missing some way in which the categories are needed.
  • If I do eliminate the categories, I will replace the publisher links on the menu with ones linking to the list of your posts as an “author”. The bad side of this is that it will actually say “author” (rather than, say, “publisher”) at the top. The good part of this is that you’ll be able to put a description of your publishing line that will appear at the top of the page. You do this by filling in the “Biographical Info” field on your user profile. It does support basic HTML. I have now done this with the About Comic page on the menu, take a look.
  • The “Biographical Info” will also appear at the bottom of each of your books’ pages.
  • Stefan raised a concern about the Featured Image being farther left than any images in your post. Unfortunately, I do not see around this. (The free version of the template doesn’t have any settings that would change that that I can find. There is a “pro” version of the template, but that’s a $60/year subscription to use, and I’m not sure it has that particular setting either.)
  • I’ve started work on a possible press release to announce this. Suggests, concerns welcome. Also, if anyone actually has good press release disitrbution… well, I don’t.

October 31, 2026

  • I have fixed the problem with previews in social media. Now, if you post a link to a book, it will show the cover of the book.
  • The “theme” I am currently using is designed for news. It gives us a lot of good thjings, but listing all of the categories in front of the cover on the front page is annoying.. It may be beyond my limited WordPress powers to get rid of them.
  • I wish there was a way to get the top portion of the front page to show a random selection of books. At this point, the left column shows the two most-recently-added complete-in-one-volume books, the right column the two most recent selection reprints, and that slidy part in the center the four most recent reprint series.
  • The sidebars now have sections marked “Some books we love” and “Get these books today!”. Each of the multibook publishers gets to select one book for Favorites I’ve selected one for you just to set it up. You can change it by going to your post for the one currently marked as a favorite and deselecting the Highlights > Favorites category, then going to the book you want listed and selecting that same category. I ask that you pick a book that’s horizontally-oriented or square, which will render better in the space given, and suggest that it not be your most recent book, which is likely to show up elsewhere on the. page. (Why is there a separate category for the currently-one-book publishers? Because the display widgets are limited to 4 books in a section.)
  • Every Amazon link that anyone creates will now automagically have a referal ID added to it, to my account. I doubt thijs will generate much money (most fo the links are to Lulu), but it’s the one thing I’ve done to defray my costs on this.
  • I have set up the menu system. Under the publishers meny, the individual publisher names go to a category listing of that publisher’s book (example: Smallbug Press) except for the one for About Comics, where I have set up a page with information about the publisher (to be expanded) and a list of books. I actually prefer the way that the books are listed on the category pages… but if you would like to have a page like the About Comics one, well, set up a page, let me know, and I’ll add the stuff that lists the books below it and integrate it into the menu system.
  • The screens are obviously filled with whoever-was-the-last-one-ti-be-adding-books, but since everything is geared to the most recent, as we continue to publish and add books, it should just be whatever happens to be the new projects.
  • I have not yet decided what to do if a traditional publisher of strip reprints (say, Fantagraphics) asked to join up. While this was set up to help us miniscule fish big enough to see, it might be a rising tide to have this be a general central place for strip reprints. Okay, I don’t know what fish do in a tide. If I had to mix metaphoirs, I shouldn’t have made them all aquatic.
  • I am open to requests and suggestions… knowing that many of the things I’d like to see (and likely you as well) are beyond my technical ability. If someone wants to do a better pass at the logo or whatever, fine by me. But the site is at a point where, if it went public now, I’d see it as functional.