December Update and Patreon Subscriber Thank You!
Hi everybody!
It's December which means a) happy upcoming holidays everybody! and 2) time for a monthly update and thank you to our very cool Patreon subscribers. :3
First, the update, if you use this site you'll have noticed that there were some issues this month with the Disqus comments being down for a couple of days and the submission form not working at various points. We've resolved both problems and there should be no issue now. They were related to having to change email providers and updating the site to the most recent version of Drupal. :) I want to thank everybody who let me know about the problems because I don't always notice everything immediately and I want to know if there's something to fix! If you have any issues with the site or suggestions to improve it, please do not hesitate to contact me and let me know!
Second, as usual I'm working through the backlog of inbox submissions and also fixing broken posts/restoring tags/adding alt text, etc to the archives. This month's big restoration project were a bunch of old posts of the Chris Hart's "How To Draw" books, including the "How To Draw Cutting Edge Anatomy" pages which explained that you can draw men with varying body sizes but the women must all be "attractive" and therefore there's not much variation in size or height or musculature and you must show characterization elsewhere. I added a full transcription of the text in the posts for screen-readers, so if you want to read it, click through the link and you should be able to. :)
I also restored 2 old Liefeld Avengelyne covers here and here. And I fixed up this old Supergirl compilation post and uploaded the infamous "letter to women fans" by now-disgraced ex-editor Eddie Berganza that was referenced in the post and added transcription for screen readers since the original letter has been removed from the DC site and there are very few full versions of it left that are accessible.
I've also fixed up the Disqus reactions to be more interesting and have a "thanks I hate it" option as requested by one reader. You should see it appear on the site soon!
I want to remind everybody that if you want to follow Escher Girls outside Tumblr, we have an RSS feed. (For newbies, RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and is basically a feed you can read using an RSS reader. Simply copy and paste https://eschergirls.com/rss.xml into an RSS reader and it will keep you up to date on Escher Girls!)
And finally I want to thank everybody for engaging in the blog and participating in the caption contest! The interactions have been really great and I loved everybody's captions for the last contest!
And of course I want to specifically thank our November 2023 Patreon supporters for helping me keep this site up. Your donations help me pay for the domain and hosting so posts can stay up and visible even if Tumblr's algorithm flags them erroneously (I've been appealing but it's frustrating because the appeals are handled by an algorithm too), and allow us to make upgrades! <3
So thank you so so much to:
Anne Adler
Cat Mara
CheerfulOptimistic
Chris McKenzie
Em Bardon
First Time Trek
Greg Sepelak
Ian Cameron
Ken Trosaurus
Kevin Carson
Kim Wincen
Kristoffer Illern Holmén
Leak
Manuel Dalton
Mary Kuhner
Max Schwarz
Michael Mazur
Miriam Pody
Morgan McEvoy
randomisedmongoose
Rebecca Breu
Ringoko
Ryan Gerber
Sam Mikes
Sean Sea
SpecialRandomCast
Thomas
Thomas Key
And I want to give another general thank you to everybody for reading, submitting, and just generally engaging with the site. The interactions I have with all of you are a huge bright spot in my day. :)
Also please stay tuned for our upcoming holiday themed caption contest! I think you'll all get a kick from it!
Thank you all so much,
Ami
(If you wish to support Escher Girls, you can subscribe to our Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/ami_angelwings or donate through Ko-Fi at: https://ko-fi.com/amiangelwings.)