{"id":1866,"date":"2011-01-06T05:00:03","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T10:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/?p=1866"},"modified":"2011-01-02T18:38:09","modified_gmt":"2011-01-02T23:38:09","slug":"2010-whoops-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/2010-whoops-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"2010. Whoops! 2011!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"NewYear2011\"<\/a>After uploading comic strips to this blog for the first two weeks in January, I noticed that I forgot to change the copyright from 2010 to 2011. How many times will we fail to write “2011” and instead, accidentally continue to write “2010” in the days ahead?\u00a0 Well, it happened to me at the digital level.\u00a0 The copyright that I\u00a0 digitally drop in read, “\u00a9 2010 Mark Szorady.\u00a0 Distributed by georgetoon.com.” It should have read, “\u00a9 2011<\/strong> Mark Szorady.\u00a0 Distributed by georgetoon.com.”\u00a0 This is the little bit of print that runs vertically in the comic panel’s gutter.<\/p>\n

Whoops.<\/p>\n

As I’ve mentioned before in this blog, in preparing art for my comic strip George and cartoon other features, I make extensive use of digital tools.\u00a0 And these tools come directly from Linux.<\/a> And I use only\u00a0 Linux applications like Gimp<\/a> and Scribus<\/a> to help produce my cartoon art.\u00a0 (My brother Dave says that before long, I’ll probably be known as “The Linux Cartoonist.”) Both of these applications come pre-installed, or easily obtained from a repository, in Linux.\u00a0 And that’s what is so absolutely wonderful about Linux.\u00a0 These tools are available to everyone! You don’t need to lay down thousands of dollars to purchase “professional level” software. Linux software gives you the same results and are just as easy to use.<\/p>\n

And those tools came in quite handy in correcting this minor error.<\/p>\n

I noticed my mistake a few hours after the upload.\u00a0 I needed to correct things. I opened Gimp and it was a simple matter of a couple of clicks.\u00a0 I dropped a “1” over the “0.”<\/p>\n

Do you have a budding artist or cartoonist in your family?\u00a0\u00a0 Then download Linux <\/a>and install it on a spare computer. All these digital graphic tools will be right there when you boot up! \u00a0 They’ll be able to create to their heart’s content.\u00a0 And Linux is immune to Windows viruses, Trojans, and spyware.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In addition, Linux is more secure than Windows.<\/p>\n

And the best part.\u00a0 Linux is free.<\/p>\n

It’s 2011!\u00a0 Ring it in, creatively,\u00a0 with Linux!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After uploading comic strips to this blog for the first two weeks in January, I noticed that I forgot to change the copyright from 2010 to 2011. How many times will we fail to write “2011” and instead, accidentally continue to write “2010” in the days ahead?\u00a0 Well, it happened to me at the digital […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[23,22,108,9,10,87],"class_list":["post-1866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-behind-the-scenes","tag-drawing-george","tag-gimp","tag-linux","tag-pclinuxos","tag-scribus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1866"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1888,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866\/revisions\/1888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}