David Revoy

🍄 Webcomic Artist • Fantasy humor
🌱 Weekly comic strips (Wed) • Longer series brewing in background
🎨 Only use Free/Libre & Open Source tools • CC-licensed • No AI

🔗 Blog/Shop/Support:: https://www.davidrevoy.com/linktree/

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2026-07-15 16:07:33 UTC

I'm sorry. Yesterday I reshared Morevna's derivation animation without considering (because ignoring) their support to Russian state propaganda during the Ukraine war (src: see https://awawa.club/notice/B8KQeteAjwfTJAYUEq or comments under my boost).
I let flattery, and my familiarity to this team blinds me, and boosted without studying it. That was a mistake.
To clarify: I don't support that AT ALL.
Thank you to those who pointed this out. I apologize for not thinking critically and will do better next time.

2026-07-08 16:52:47 UTC

Summer Witchcraft
Sources and bonus timelapse: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/060.html
#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater
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2026-07-03 17:29:15 UTC

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Yes, and a heavy one too. Very interesting about the Wacom movink15; usually Wacom share the spec, so 6 month (or so) after the release of a new model on the market (and on rolling distro) they are plug and play.
But I'll review also next month a 12inch from XpPen and a 11" from Gaomon that are also targeting this market: the one of the screen display tablet for less than 250$ , and with a single USB-C for power and data.

2026-07-03 17:16:59 UTC

Just contributed my first drawing-tablet driver! 🎉 It is for this giant XpPen Artist Pro 27 (gen2) I received (sponsored in exchange of a review on my channel). I adapted the existing specs of the 16" and 19" and it taught me so much, from compiling to submitting a MR. Everything now works perfectly on my GNU/Linux KDE Neon Plasma... Feeling accomplished! Review video coming soon!
MR: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libevdev/udev-hid-bpf/-/merge_requests/243
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2026-06-24 16:47:20 UTC

Adventure Calls (Clearly)
Sources and bonus timelapse: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/058.html
#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater
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2026-06-22 12:17:23 UTC

Why Drawing Tablet Brands Won't Collaborate on Linux FLOSS Drivers
After investigation; Gaomon, XpPen, and Huion won't collaborate on open-source drivers because of outdated naming conventions. Here's what I learned from direct contact with their technical teams, and what I plan to do to move forward.
Link to article: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1154/why-drawing-tablet-brands-wont-collaborate-on-linux-floss-drivers
#linux #drivers #tablet

2026-06-20 15:45:25 UTC

Just revamped my self hosted "link tree" page: a new look and easier access to my webcomics. It's a single HTML file, public domain: feel free to fork and customize it.
https://www.davidrevoy.com/linktree/

2026-06-17 16:27:33 UTC

The Nest and Travel Souvenir
Sources and bonus timelapse: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/057.html
#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater
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2026-06-10 18:14:09 UTC

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I'm sure many derivations were done around the Baba Yaga tales from Russia and eastern of Europe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tale_About_Baba-Yaga

2026-06-10 15:36:43 UTC

Home Sweet Home...Sort of
#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater
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2026-05-28 17:56:11 UTC

Dryad, a poster illustration for the Geek Faeries Festival.
#krita #illustration #digitalpainting #fantasy #dryad
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2026-05-27 16:19:08 UTC

Finally, a quest worth doing
Sources and bonus timelapse: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/054.html
#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater
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2026-05-25 09:42:33 UTC

Hey, next week (May 30th to 31th), I'll be at the Torino Comics festival in Italy, meeting the "Silly Studios" publisher on their booth (Zona Chiostro, Pagoda P10). If you are around, come to say a hello and get a signed and sketched copy of the paperback volumes of "Pepper & Carrot"!
See you in Turin!
https://torinocomics.it/
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2026-05-24 14:18:04 UTC

A new "Exquisite Corpse" collab! This time with artist the @npub1a0m…ejy5 (left), and me (right). The theme: animals. Fun! fun on the Fediverse :fediverse: :blobcatheart:
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2026-05-24 13:31:08 UTC

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Plop! Et voici ma partie de droite 😊
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2026-05-24 10:08:03 UTC

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By the way, I should probably update my article with a graphic representation of this 'death valley' 😆
Joke aside, in the Wayland era, the D.E. controls the color management and the tablet handling. (before on X11, we had CLI tools for that, that could work on all distro, not anymore). That's why now the choice of D.E. and its version is far more important than the choice of distro, imo.
The 26.04LTS has a descent Plasma version. Maybe a sweat LTS ecosystem once Snap removed (2/2)

2026-05-23 14:12:29 UTC

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My blog is back! I went into the logs to see the RSS code was the main culprit: huge and with 14K RSS bots hitting it over the last 10h.
So, I simplified the RSS because, meh: I was sending the full content of the article with 10MB of pictures and the code was dynamically converting the markdown to html, then html to special char, *each time* 🫠 hm hm, no wonder...
Now the website is back and up to speed, and the article received over 60K visitors, thank you!

2026-05-23 10:22:07 UTC

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Quick mirror of my article on my other server: https://www.peppercarrot.com/extras/html/2026-05-23_KDE-Neon-for-digital-painter-guide_mirror/ because my blog is in a overload situation, too many visitors, I hope it helps!

2026-05-23 09:30:18 UTC

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Oui 😅 Désolé, Je viens de regarder les logs du serveur: le lien tourne fort. Même très fort. Le serveur distribue mais en situation claire d'overload. Le temps d'accès est très long depuis hier.
C'est flatteur en tout cas après tout le travail dessus. Merci pour le message!

2026-05-23 02:28:55 UTC

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Yes, unfortunately, Debian 13 is one of the distro that is in the "valley of death" of being released with not good enough Wayland tech; and X11 support starting to be neglected and buggy... That's a shame, I really liked my years on Debian!

2026-05-22 17:31:40 UTC

:linux: After months of testing, weeks of writing, here is finally my new full Linux install guide: "Interim Install Guide: KDE Neon User Edition for a professional digital painter workstation": https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1145/interim-install-guide-kde-neon-user-edition-for-a-professional-digital-painter-workstation
Everything about Drawing Tablet, Color Management and Calibration/Profiling on KDE Plasma 6 Wayland, and all to survive the packaging mess with eg. built-in tutorial to revert version of Flatpak, scripts to beta-test Krita, and more!
The most complete article I ever published!
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2026-05-21 20:04:33 UTC

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😍 Nice! Thank you for taking the full pack!

2026-05-21 09:20:20 UTC

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ewww. He bien idem. Bien dommage, va falloir sans doute que je m'adapte et si ça devient un évenement pro-AI que je passe mon chemin.

2026-05-21 09:05:02 UTC

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Je suis curieux, comment c'est visible? ( celui là https://capitoledulibre.org/ ? Ce n'est pas du "Sealioning" comme question, tu sais que je suis pas pro-AI du tout du tout, mais vraiment de la curiosité pour savoir si il y a une méthode ou des indices criants que je ne vois pas.)
En tout cas, l’e-mail du jour contient un beau em-dash pour faire une pause dans la phrase, ce qui se trouve parfois en anglais mais jamais à ma connaissance en Français.
Un coup de LLM sans doute? 🤔
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2026-05-21 06:18:33 UTC

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It is printed in French since ten years now, search for "Pepper et Carrot, edition Glénat". But they never did the Artbook.
About the "Episode 39: The tavern", no, it's not the last episode, I'm continuing, surely but slowly. It's frustrating because I spent the past month on many Yak Shaving (operating system, Krita release and videos, improving MiniFantasyTheater, etc... ).
I'm right now at the Layout step of the episode 40. I'll try to make a post on the blog about it!

2026-05-21 05:40:48 UTC

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Thank you for taking them! 💜 He he, same, I even didn't notice it until I received a DM of the publisher who really felt super bad about it; he told me he sent a general message to the Kickstarter and felt he ruined the batch by this mistake that went under their radar.
I told him and to the graphist to not worry and blame themselves that hard, I find it fun and "collector" too and haven't even noticed it at first. 😅 Really a minor typo, and a fun "made in Italy" souvenir.

2026-05-21 05:35:48 UTC

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Hello! Fin de semaine un peu compliqué et j'ai pas ma partie de prête (mea culpa); peut-on remettre ça pour ce week-end? Dimanche je devrai avoir ma moitié de prête.

2026-05-20 17:02:38 UTC

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This episode was totally screen-recorded and I had no issues with OBS+Wayland+Plasma+Krita. The full process was also commented (audio recording) and it's from A to Z: from scratch to posting. The scenario in Kate, to the panel making, text, everything fully in Krita 5.3 with the new text tool and comic panel tool.
Now I have over 20 hours of video editing to do in Kdenlive; many sequence will be accelerated as time-lapse. ETA of this big tutorial bonus: maybe start of june.
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2026-05-20 16:23:40 UTC

Ep 53. Breathing Underwater
Sources and bonus timelapse: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/053.html
#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater
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2026-05-13 16:05:55 UTC

Classic vendor move
Sources and bonus timelapse: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/052.html
#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater
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2026-05-06 20:12:16 UTC

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oh, what he did is bad, I'll work on making this backfire to him.

2026-05-06 16:11:15 UTC

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Yes, "Hereva"; but take it as a parody of lore and universe rather than something really trying to be serious and coherent to the detail by design.

2026-05-06 15:52:19 UTC

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Real loot: "wild ferocious wild forest octopus meat", equally disappointing 😅

2026-05-06 15:32:58 UTC

The loot
Sources and bonus timelapse: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/051.html
#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater
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2026-05-06 14:30:57 UTC

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Cool! Par contre, on prend le temps, ~ 21 Mai? Je bookmark et je me mets un rappel sur le calendrier 😅

2026-05-06 10:46:56 UTC

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Super, je te donne alors cette partie gauche, je prendrai la même en miroir pour faire la partie droite.
Un thème? (je pensais à zoo, animaux; pour le fun mais dit moi et on adapte)
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2026-05-04 15:48:01 UTC

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Oui, le légendaire "Tac au Tac", j'en ai revu un ou deux en entier dernièrement.
D'ailleurs, faudrait qu'on s'en fasse un aussi de Cadavre Exquis. ^ ^

2026-05-04 14:40:30 UTC

A Fediverse experiment! an "Exquisite Corpse" collab with artist @npub1lym…fqe3 (left), and me (right). Fun fun!
Full original thread: https://fe.disroot.org/notice/B5c8qmENlmX1kjRXMm
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2026-04-29 19:51:43 UTC

The comic I posted today is the first one that I have created from A to Z under a Wayland session (KDE Neon User Edition, Plasma 6.6.4, Krita 6.0.1), and that after 17 years under X11.
A big thanks to:
- the Wayland team for improving the color management
- KDE Display/Input team for the tablet and ICC support
- Krita team for a better experience on Wayland.
I can finally adapt my workflow to this tech! I'll post a new install guide on my blog soon™ https://www.davidrevoy.com/index.php?tag/linux

2026-04-29 18:50:14 UTC

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The og:image link on my website is the 4 panels in a single image. So, it's Pleroma who has a bug, and replace the link preview with the last picture of the attachement...

2026-04-29 16:24:20 UTC

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I'm curious what is your client, because it looks like 100% a policy of your platform.
My website only publish this in the header
```
<meta property="og:image" content="https://www.peppercarrot.com/0_sources/miniFantasyTheater/low-res/en_050_miniFantasyTheater.jpg"/>
```
So, your client choose to use the last picture of the series within the post to illustrate the attachement to the post. Please report it to the maintainer! Thank you.

2026-04-29 16:00:03 UTC

Fast Travel
Sources and bonus timelapse: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/050.html
#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater
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2026-04-29 00:07:55 UTC

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Honestly, I'm not sure which shocks me more: the sponsorship itself, or the fact that you're announcing it happily and proudly without considering how problematic it might be for your community.
Unfortunately, I'll take this as a sign of a pro-AI cultural shift at the Blender Foundation. What a disappointment.

2026-04-27 07:16:40 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@warandpeas/116467205610853524
You probably saw it last week-end: @npub1y32…g9js replicated the "unified" VS "split" panels experiments poll.
They obtained a result... totally inverted compare to mine! 😮
A very interesting result I tried to analyse in a paragraph (update on the footer of my original article): https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1138/unified-vs-split-panels-experimenting-with-publishing-digital-comics-on-the-fediverse#when-the-webcomic-war-and-peas-replicates-the-experiment
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2026-04-24 10:39:49 UTC

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A collab? Sounds good, esp if we can keep it Creative Commons Attribution, or ShareAlike.
What about an https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exquisite_corpse , @npub1lym…fqe3 ?

2026-04-22 16:09:23 UTC

The Dungeon of Dark Patterns
Sources and bonus timelapse: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/049.html
#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater
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2026-04-20 10:38:10 UTC

RE: https://floss.social/@kdenlive/116425440021929906
Great blog post from Kdenlive, the FLOSS video editing software I've been using for my video channels for 15 years [1]. I really like the recent improvements to the Titler feature.
[1] Ytb: https://www.youtube.com/@DavidRevoy (soon 100k subscribers 😆 Ptb alternative: [email protected] )
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2026-04-16 11:32:21 UTC

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Ha non, j'avais oublié.
Du coup, je viens de voir qu'il y avait pour 20/30€ des petits refroidisseurs de RAM, comme deux petits ventilos qui se clip sur le dessus, alimenté par une prise classique de PSU. Je vais prendre ça, c'est sage pour mettre toute les chances de mon côté et prolonger leur vie à cette proximité du CPU.

2026-04-16 10:29:02 UTC

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Oui, clairement. Ça m'a coûté 30€, car j'ai du envoyé une petite boite aux Pays-Bas avec suivi. La procédure est assez flou, pas mal de vérifications avec formulaire, un PDF avec code barre à imprimer et à joindre dans la boite retour, mais quelques emails rare mais rassurant de confirmation ici et là.

2026-04-16 10:23:50 UTC

Remember my RAM issue from January? After months (warranty forms, posting back the 2x8GB modules to factory, and waiting), the brand finally honored their lifetime warranty and I received my new RAM this morning!
Back to 32GB! 🎉
A relief, because I've been running over the last few months with 16GB, and it was tight for intensive work.
www.davidrevoy.com/article1117/the-ram-nightmare-how-i-lost-my-sanity-and-almost-my-deadline

2026-04-14 14:14:56 UTC

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Hey Emilion, I totally understand, and I would do the same 👍
Unfortunately, for the self publishing books 100% made with FLOSS, that was the only company/solution I found long time ago, before that was so problematic (the Brexit put a lot of tax on the UK print pod). I might need to look for a EU print-on-demand solution soon.
For the version of the publisher Silly Studio (Italian publisher), they just put their Italian/English version in the shop https://sillystudiosofficial.com/shop/

2026-04-14 13:12:50 UTC

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Screenshots of Scribus running on Debian KDE with the Pepper&Carrot books on it (CC By)
- Sources: https://framagit.org/peppercarrot/book-publishing (require 24GB)
- Books: https://www.davidrevoy.com/static9/shop#official
#scribus
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2026-04-14 10:52:53 UTC

Scribus , the open source desktop publishing software I use for my comics, just had two new releases!
- 1.6.6 (stable) https://www.scribus.net/scribus-1-6-6-released/
- 1.7.3 (unstable) https://www.scribus.net/scribus-1-7-3-released/
:blobaww: 🎁
#scribus

2026-04-13 06:17:29 UTC

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I have artists who use that vertical (1×4 or more) in my TL, yes it has good pros you mentioned but also this cons:
Cons:
- limited to the width of a single long 'thumbnail' sized the column of TL on clients and not all og them have a policy for it (but Mastodon does)
- Scaling down image algorithm of the platform, good for graphical style, but not detailed art.
- On click, the "full preview" rescale to the entirety of the screen, making them impossible to read without zooming.

2026-04-12 23:08:54 UTC

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Inkscape, because I'm maintaining right now 28744 Inkscape SVG files (translation of pages for Pepper&Carrot and Mini Fantasy Theater), and refactoring all of that to change workflow is impossible right now. Also because hosting on Git the SVG is really flexible and lightweight compare to the Krita Kra files with multiple layers: SVGs are XML text, so it's possible to diff, and versioning control system works great for that type of file.

2026-04-12 21:39:49 UTC

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:blobcatheart: Thank you!

2026-04-12 21:16:16 UTC

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Also on the Fediverse → @npub1lc8…j94y

2026-04-12 21:09:25 UTC

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Oh! my bad, thank you for reporting, I'll check it right away.

2026-04-12 21:03:26 UTC

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🤯 oh! I had no idea such a CSS class existed. I'll add it to my TODO! Thank you for sharing and for your words too.

2026-04-12 19:52:57 UTC

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Thank you!

2026-04-12 19:51:16 UTC

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That's a good one! I'll add it. Thank you 👍

2026-04-12 19:30:24 UTC

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Yes, I wonder if I can just put the 4 panels unified twice on the html, and hide the one of the top on small screens, and on desktop inverse it: hide the one after the panel-a panel-b, etc... In general, I'm not fond of making a different content depending of the device, and "choose for the user".

2026-04-12 18:48:55 UTC

New blog-post: "Unified Vs Split-panels: experimenting with publishing digital comics on the Fediverse"
https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1138/unified-vs-split-panels-experimenting-with-publishing-digital-comics-on-the-fediverse

2026-04-12 15:19:38 UTC

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Hey, the arrows navigation (and page up/down, spacebar) is already implemented.
I tried the mousewheel, but this 'breaks the webpage too much, and managing the mouse wheel sensitivity in Javascript is a can of worms I don't want to maintain for so many devices possibles emulating a mouse scroll.
But Maybe I'll consider a fixed button (position fixed css, sticky on screen) to go up and down.
Thank you for the feedback!

2026-04-12 03:25:01 UTC

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Yes, thank you, it's a good point and a popular feedback, but unfortunately Mastodon limits me to 4 pictures per post. But since I posted that, I refactored also my website, and this one now has everything: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/047.html
I'll just make sure every post have also a link.

2026-04-11 22:33:37 UTC

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Thank you, I started to write her a series, but I felt stuck in my scenarios: her universe of Necromancia is so dark that the humor also went very dark quickly. Maybe at one point I'll have better ideas for her. Or she'll remains Miss "Halloween special" 😆

2026-04-11 21:11:58 UTC

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Yes, the URL is stable, and retro-compatible with previous URLs. The RSS for miniFantasyTheater [1] will continue to deliver the "unified" all panels in a single picture comic, but with a link to this comic reader.
[1] https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/rss-feeds/index.html

2026-04-11 20:57:11 UTC

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:blobcatheart: Thank you!

2026-04-11 20:54:51 UTC

Over the past days, I worked hard on the MiniFantasyTheater website.
I'll blog about it tomorrow, but if you want, you can test before my new homemade comic reader: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/025.html

2026-04-09 13:27:22 UTC

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"Note the limited movement of the carpals and metacarpals as compared to the wide range possible in the phalanges."
Drawing Dynamic Hands ~ Burne Hogarth
#page42

2026-04-09 13:16:42 UTC

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😍 THANK YOU!
First comment about it, and I really expected to get more about it, but maybe it was forgotten.
This is the original soundtrack I was listening while doing the character design. I also tried a lot to make a reference to Parn on the design and color palette, just a younger and 'goofier' version.
💜 Record of Lodoss War

2026-04-09 12:39:44 UTC

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:blobcatheart: Thank you!

2026-04-09 12:39:23 UTC

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Oh yes, but lets push the dream even further: JXL for the raster part but embed inside a SVG, so the texts are also possible to be selected and read out-loud the by machine, and a description of the panel also float under it for accessibility. 😺

2026-04-09 11:47:42 UTC

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True, thank you for sharing your feedback, that's a lot of good points.

2026-04-08 23:54:07 UTC

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Those eyes seem to say something...
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2026-04-08 23:44:28 UTC

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Merci pour le retour!

2026-04-08 23:43:51 UTC

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Thank you!

2026-04-08 23:43:14 UTC

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Hey, I keep posting all manually, just because I don't like really using script for my social interactions, but I pretty automated all the "split in four pictures" with Imagemagick and bash; I have the four output pictures with no effort now. The longer part is just to copy/paste the four part of my transcript for the alt text. It's a couple minute longer to do, but in comparison to the 16 hours this comic strip took me to paint, it's insignifiant.
I would say the effort are the same.

2026-04-08 23:33:16 UTC

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Yes, I saw that on Instagram too, where it can go to 9 pictures and beyond. But unfortunately, not something I can do with my 4 panels, because the picture limit on Mastodon is 4 pictures by posts...

2026-04-08 20:03:49 UTC

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I wish! But Mastodon has a 4 pictures limitation per post.
But both is the way, it starts to take shape in my brain, and I need to test a sort of proof of concept on my website to see if I can make something.
I'll blog about it soon.

2026-04-08 20:01:11 UTC

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I'm interested to know the model if it works well, I have a stack of real books and manga on my bed table; but I can't read them in bed because I need to turn on the light and Alicja can't fall asleep.

2026-04-08 19:53:20 UTC

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Yes, the context with the frame around and the 'grid' visually feels more like comic to me too. I'll think about it.

2026-04-08 19:51:56 UTC

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:blobcatheart: Thank you. I'll take care of this aspect in my decision. I'll blog soon about it.

2026-04-08 19:45:30 UTC

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🤣

2026-04-08 19:31:57 UTC

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Haha, once posted all on all platforms and with the sources on the repo; I did the test for myself. I had a d8 around, and made 7. Lucky!
But I'm not sure if I would roll it knowing it has real consequence 😆

2026-04-08 19:29:56 UTC

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🤣 🤣 True.

2026-04-08 19:29:13 UTC

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Hey Kujiu, thank you very much for testing it with your perspective 👍

2026-04-08 19:22:52 UTC

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Yes, no problem, and unfortunately, it's hard to color balance slightly on the golden yellow now for artists as ChatGPT genAI picture associated that with the infamous "yellow piss AI filter".
But here I needed this type of golden light ( for the theme, golden scarab dice, golden light ) and the contrast for the end panel.
You can see the process recorded here: https://www.peppercarrot.com/0_sources/miniFantasyTheater/making-of/047.mp4 , this one probably took over 16h of work!

2026-04-08 19:01:22 UTC

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Thank you. Yes, that's correct, and thank you for noticing this example. Panel reading has a flow, that are more like curves; and in a 1 picture 2x2 grid I can play with it a lot. While in 4 pictures, the eye is reset to the top left and follow the diagonal of reading Left to Right and immediately chase the speechbubbles and the faces. Something about composition and the comic format is lost.
I put that on my list. I'm collecting data, I'll blog about my results soon.

2026-04-08 18:54:39 UTC

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Thank you for the feedback, it must have been a challenge to understand the comic in reverse; you probably thought I was going very into a contemporary way of storytelling 😅
Probably 5 years ago or more, I posted a test about sorting of pictures; and it was totally random for many clients on Fediverse. I somehow assumed that in 2026 the order would be preserved across the Fediverse; but I see there is no warranty about this.
Precious feedback. Thank you. :blobcatheart:

2026-04-08 18:47:43 UTC

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Oh yes, I had to sacrify the "Die" singular, too close for non native of the verb "to die" and confusing (Stop! a golden die!").
Dice singular is modern, and easier for international. Sorry to all die lovers.

2026-04-08 18:12:56 UTC

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Oh! :blobcatheart: Thank you for reporting this one before I "git commit" it to the repo.
Too much rewrite made me blind to this I guess. Yes, in a previous version he asked in this panel "and what's happen if we roll a twenty?" and then the Pink-fairy was giving the peasant/lord line, but then the room in the panel while drawing was missing so I refactored it.

2026-04-08 17:59:26 UTC

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Unfortunately, not possible on Mastodon: 4 picture max per post 🤔 But I already have a little idea about how I could workaround that.

2026-04-08 17:30:22 UTC

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Thank you, unfortunately, a hard limitation of Mastodon UI: I can put 4 pictures maximum inside a post. But I'll think about something. I'll blog about it before the end of the week.

2026-04-08 17:29:00 UTC

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I already automatized the picture split with imagemagick at the renderfarm level ( https://www.peppercarrot.com/0_sources/miniFantasyTheater/low-res/panels/ ) so I have picture a, b, c, d now for free. The only additional work is to copy paste my transcript into four pictures, and also take care of really inserting them into the right order.

2026-04-08 17:21:20 UTC

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🔗 1 picture, with all 4 panels on it: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/047.html

2026-04-08 17:05:36 UTC

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Yes, or even just proposing a carousel mode: just the first panel visible with dots under that indicate their is pictures to flip. (or arrows and a count)

2026-04-08 16:56:35 UTC

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Good to know about Miskey; I had no idea the Mastodon UI was trimming the pictures count if above 4. That sounds bad, because if a comic artist on Miskey post a story in 6 panels and his client allows it on the Fediverse, it's a shame that Masto UI ruins the story and trim it...

2026-04-08 16:51:38 UTC

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Note: I'm testing something new: splitting the four panels and posting them as separate pictures.
Reasons:
- More resolution and details
- Easier to read, larger font size
- Mobile/small-screen friendly.
Should I keep this format for the future?

2026-04-08 16:41:07 UTC

The Golden Twenty Dice
(would you roll it?)
#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater
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