nicubunu presents: a Fedora WEBCOMIC

Introduction

This is A (Free) webcomic about Fedora, Linux, computers, life and stuff made by nicu. Read it. Enjoy it it is enjoyable. Comment if you want. Share it if you want.

Cast of characters

Meet the characters: the heroes, the villains damsels in distress, innocent passers-by and more. Find about their names, hobbies, weaknesses, maybe some background info and plans for future. You may get in there also some source code (SVG) for developing your own webcomics.

Romanian version

The webcomic is developed primarily in English but its creator prvoides also a Romanian version, which contain only the translated version of the comic strip.
Being an Open Source and freely redistributable webcomic, you are free to run your own translation.

Latest issues:

Fedora Webcomic, FOSDEM Special: The Lame Sellout

So my soul is sold for a couple of beers, I have no shame. And because people waited so long. this one is bigger, has more panels and more people.

Now back to the planning for today's beers...

6 Feb 2010 | 4:35 am | Read/Leave comments

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Sorry, I couldn't resist:

17 Sep 2009 | 12:18 am | Read/Leave comments

Photo cartoon

Since months ago, while I was running my webcomic I wanted to experiment with something different (no worry, is an one-shot, will not transform in a series), but I needed a lot of logistics for it and had to wait for the right time, the eLiberatica conference when I got the actors, the costumes, the props, the background, almost everything (not everything since I lacked the time to develop a better story).

[fedora photo cartoon]

When I took the photos the story was supposed to be different but when looking at the photos I noticed the boys are doing "the sign" wrongly so my first reaction was to crap the photos and ask them removed from Fedora for not getting such basic things. But then I realized the photographer (me) is guilty, as he has the duty to ensure the subjects are in the correct place and position, so scrapped the plan B and went back to the cartoon but with an adapted story.

Note: it was made with a combination of GIMP and Inkscape, maybe one day I will get the time to write a tutorial about the process.

28 May 2009 | 3:21 am | Read/Leave comments

Fedora Weekly Webcomic: The End

Q: How long is the life of a certain Fedora release?
A: About 13 months.

Q: When the Fedora Webcomic started?
A: Roughly 13 months ago.

Q: Do you get where I am going with this?
A: I'm afraid so...

Q: Why it died?
A: Mostly by loneliness.

Q: So will it disappear from the face of the web?
A: No, it will remain archived, together with the SVG sources at its canonical location.

It was a hard decision, as I had a lot of fun working on it and it was a fruit of passion, but the decision was taken long time ago (October-November) and the final graphic was implemented back on February: the writing was on the wall for quite some time. I continued it for months mainly due to my stubborness and waited for a milestone and a credible(?) excuse to get out.

Good thing I didn't set any performance metric for the comic, otherwise I would have been sad about it not meeting any of the expectations... So not having enough data, I can't make any conclusion: it failed due my poor implementation (graphics, stories) or due to my decision to address such a narrow niche (Fedora and Fedora on the desktop). But I have enough data (comments, traffic, link backs, translations) to conclude it was a failure.

21 May 2009 | 5:54 am | Read/Leave comments