Looking forward to perusing it....

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I seemed to have botched the initial upload. Should be fixed now.

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I've begun to read it-- pretty cool. I took the time to figure out how to use bit torrent and discovered .cbz only just this week, so good timing!

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I discovered some problems with the original file I posted last night (a couple of corrupted pictures, as well as some registration problems that have now been corrected). I just uploaded over the original, so the same link will work if you want to grab the new one.

Sorry. :/

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Please excuse my ignorance but what is .cbz format?

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Basically it is a set of sequential images compressed into a zip or rar archive and renamed with a .cbz or .cbr extension. There are several viewer programs out there which can take the single file and read them as if they were a book. Or, you can just unzip/unrar them and view the resulting individual images in a web browser, image program, etc.

Some viewer programs include:

CDisplay, CBView and FFView.

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I wondering why you use this format rather than something like PDF for example?

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Well, I fully intend to make both available, it's just that I haven't had time to make the .pdfs yet.

I have so far done two cut-and-paste zines that have (to date) only been released digitally (I will eventually produce a limited number of print copies of FUCK[tm].2004). The first one, Career Suicide, was .pdf only, and this was fully how I intended to circulate such publications in the future. Along the way it suddenly hit me that .cbz/.cbr is very simple for people to operate (there is a huge comic book scanning/trading underground that mainly uses this format), and I have also recently put out several of my comics in the same format under a Creative Commons license on BitTorrent, so I decided to use it here as well. My intention was/is to make both available.

Basically, I am so strapped for time this week that after spending a whole evening scanning and assembling the above file, it was late and I was tired and I went to sleep. I forgot about making a page for it on my new hosted site and creating the .pdf!

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Ah ok, I'm not into the underground comic scene so I didn't realize that is a common format. Very much a pdf oriented person.
But I'd like to browse your new 'zine, so if the pdf is not up when I have some time to do so, I'll install the .cbz viewer.

Career suicide. Now that sounds like the story of my career.

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BTW could you post the link to Career Suicide pdf? I've got the feeling it's going to be pretty amusing.

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Here you go:

http://www.inri.net/zines/Career_Suicide/pdf/Career_Suicide_01.pdf

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