Using Google Photos and Google Docs To Make My Webcomic Book

I came up with a way to use Google docs and Google photos to make my webcomic books

So whenever I draw my webcomics, the drawing program I use on my tablet saves them in a folder. I have Google Photos set up to back that folder up online.

At first, I just wanted to have them backed up there so I could have that "year ago today thing" where it would just show me my own comic from the past year in the app.

You know, so I could go, "oh I remember that happened this day".

That was the original reason that I did this.

Backing them up in Google Photos was a happy accident later on

In my first book, I just used Google docs to put it together. I downloaded the book template from Amazon KDP and uploaded it to Google docs so it would have the right format.

Then I just needed to add the comics.

I added webcomics the hard way in the first book

When I did the first book I thought this was genius!

I figured out google docs lets me add images by URL and I had been posting them on my website.

screenshot of a web page with a comic illustration

So what I did originally was I would go comic by comic by comic over the period of months on my website and I would copy the image URL. Then I would go to the Google doc and then I would paste that image in there.

But by the time I added the last month of webcomics to the document it occurred to me this was not the quickest way to do it. So... not so genius.

Then I figured out the easier way. My happy accident

Then after I realized that I was also backing them up on Google photos - when I clicked on the dropdown for the add URL, it also said "photos".

At the time I wasn't organizing my webcomic in Google photos in a way that I could just scroll through and add them by month.

So what I started doing is, when I backed up the webcomics that I drew each day to Google photos I would then put them in a folder for the month.

I named the folder with the month and year like January 2020 and so on for the year.

I do that each night after I draw the comic and now when I put the books together, it makes it super easy!

I open the template in Google docs for the book and click to add from "photos" then open each month's folders and add them.

It's one of the easiest ways that I found over the years to put the book together for me.

Check out the video

I made a video talking more about this and making my webcomic book. You can check that out on the site here! Making a book of my webcomic - Part 1

Artwork for the original Candy Land game by Milton Bradley from 1955.

I have a vintage Candy Land game from 1955 by Milton Bradley and I was about to sell it so I thought I would add it to my personal art history course concept I've been doing . I'm going to try and see if I can find out how this game was created, designed and why? Here is what I found out about this game https://candy-land.fandom.com/wiki/Candy_Land_Wiki Candy Land is a board game about children exploring a world made out of candy and other sweets that originally came out in 1949. In every version of the game, there are a group of children that go through Candy Land. In the earliest versions of the game, it was a realistically drawn boy and girl. Drawing of the Candy Land kids I did on my phone ☝ https://board-games-galore.fandom.com/wiki/Candy_Land The game was designed in 1948 by Eleanor Abbott , while she was recovering from polio in San Diego, California. It's rumored that Eleanor also did the original artwork but I didn't find anything that

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A quick peek behind-the-scenes of a new webcomic series. Coming soon!

I've recently paused my usual diary comic to dedicate my attention to an exciting new project—a fiction webcomic series featuring two characters that may be familiar to my long-time followers. These characters, Bobert and the Monster have made appearances on my website before , and now they're taking center stage. I'm working diligently with the hope of launching the series shortly. In the meantime, I'd like to share this behind-the-scenes video of the drawing process for one of the upcoming pages. Stay tuned for more updates as I bring this creative vision to life.

New song! Variation witch

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Tom Ray

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