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ICECUBES the comic strip. #0291
Posted on April 21, 2016 by Leroy Brown
Speaking of technology, did you know that you can navigate through all the past ICECUBES comic strips on the website by simply using your arrow keys? Try it! Just tap the back arrow and watch last week's comic pop right up! If you think that's amazing, you're right and it's all in large part thanks to a guy named Philip Hofer, otherwise known as Frumph. testscreen-buttons Back in the day when I decided to put ICECUBES online, I had no idea how to design a website. So I did my best to cobble together a botchy WordPress site. Little by little, through intensive research I finally came across ComicPress. ComicPress was a way to publish comics that could be read online in an intuitive, user friendly way. Setting it up wasn't easy especially since I wanted to customize my page. That's when I reached out to Comicpress's creator Frumph. Lo and behold he didn't hesitate to teach me all kinds of things about php, css and sundry variables that would allow ICECUBES to end up looking the way it does today. Over the months and years Frumph was always there to help with coding. Recently he helped me with a new comics project I am about to launch. So I decided to thank him in this post and point out that he now has a Patreon account where you too can get help with your comic site.

2 thoughts on “ICECUBES the comic strip. #0291”

  1. Mark Stokes

    There’s a first time for everything!

    1. Leroy Brown

      Freeze is a typewriter noob! 🙂

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Retro Ads.

Posted on January 6, 2012 by Leroy Brown
Hey, cool ICECUBES readers, here’s a new feature I’m including for 2012! Retro ads. They often have great illustrations, funny copy and hilarious tag lines. They are so cool I thought we could feature them in the ‘Cool Pix’ section of the ‘Icebox’. If you didn’t know it already, the ‘Icebox’ is the blog section of ICECUBES. Take a look here and explore more than 120 pages of random coolness! Thanks and tell me what you think! 🙂 Leroy Brown 1947 Here’s our first entry. It’s a Bendix washing machine ad from 1947 featuring a great cartoony illustration by ‘Pony’. If anyone knows who that is please share it with us. Note the machine is also available in Canada and Mexico! 😉

Year End Review 2011.

Posted on December 30, 2011 by Leroy Brown
©ICECUBES Well, there you have it, the end of another year of ICECUBES the comic strip! 2011 was a banner year for ICECUBES with the most online visits ever. The strip has more readers, more subscribers, more Facebook fans and more Twitter friends than ever. Here are the year end numbers:
  • 145,000 total lifetime visits with over 10,000 return visits this year alone
  • over 120 Kindle ebooks sold (click here to get your copy)
  • 1055 Facebook friends (click here to become friends)
  • 205 Facebook fans of ICECUBES the comic strip. (click here to like the fan page)
  • 555 Twitter followers (click here to follow)
  • 70 feed subscribers on average (click here to subscribe)
  • 4 podcasts (click here to watch them)
  • 3 conventions
  • 1 printed book coming soon!
    •  2012 will be a make it or break it year for ICECUBES. The biggest milestone will be getting the first book printed. I have been carefully researching printers to get the best quality for the most reasonable price. I want this book to be a collector’s item that you will want to own and hang on to. I also want it to be affordable! Your comments fuel my motivation to make the strip and I want to encourage you to please take this opportunity to tell me what you think of ICECUBES. Positive comments are most welcome of course but if you see something you think could be better by all means let me know. Your feedback is essential in helping make ICECUBES even better. Thank you so much for reading ICECUBES and have a Happy New Year! 🙂     Leroy Brown