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Almost 2 months in the making (yes, I work slower when the sun burns on my head while I lay on the grass at some alpine lake :)), here is the new ComicRack 0.9.126, faster, bigger and badder than any other build that came before.

Short list of highlights:

• Full DjVu support (reading and exporting)
• Reordering of tabs
• Page selection when exporting eComics
• New rating system (community ratings and fractional ratings)
• Huge performance gain when working with complex smart lists

For details check the description for the download.

UPDATE: 0.9.126 had an ugly bug in the Multiple Comics Editor. The fix is in 0.9.127 which replaces 0.9.126. Just redownload from the link below.

UPDATE 2: And another one slipped through. Let's call this codename "Trinity". The fix is in 0.9.128 which replaces 0.9.127. Just redownload.

Read more: ComicRack 0.9.126/127/128 released

There's always a place to support independent Comic Artists here at ComicRack :)

ARMAGEDDONQUEST

ARMAGEDDONQUEST squirms and thrashes in a crawlspace it dug out with its bare talons, partway between the early graphic novel and classic “outsider” art. It’s the comics version of the demon-haunted work of the young Daniel Johnston, raw, passionate, demented, electric.

–Warren Ellis

AQ by Ronald Russell Roach spans 20 Chapters of pure comix glee.  Brought to you by Killing the Grizzly with the blessings of the author, KTG will soon be kickstarting a KICKSTARTER campaign to fund a new limited edition printing of this early comix masterwork.  Anyone who helps out/contributes will receive the full 20 Chapters (nearly 900 pages!) in CBZ format, among bigger incentives such as signed copies of the new print edition, original art, and more.

For information on helping, GO HERE.

Don’t know if you want to help?  Check out these first six chapters free below!

#1 - http://www.moment-us.com/dl-free-download/AQ01.cbz
#2 - http://www.moment-us.com/dl-free-download/AQ02.cbz
#3 - http://www.moment-us.com/dl-free-download/AQ03.cbz
#4 - http://www.moment-us.com/dl-free-download/AQ04.cbz
#5 - http://www.moment-us.com/dl-free-download/AQ05.cbz
#6 - http://www.moment-us.com/dl-free-download/AQ06.cbz

 Apple did it again. They removed the eComic "Ulysses seen" from their store because of "nudity". Read more about this here.

Of course, you're using ComicRack on a good ol' Windows machine, so no one is telling you what you can and can't read. So download it now and enjoy :)

Read more: Read Comics IPad and IPhone users can't

This is mainly a bug fix and maintenance release.
It has some enhancements for script developers and a new docking option for Info Panels.

This release includes a working HTML Info Panel to display the content of the Web link field. If you want to use it you must turn it on in Preferences/Scripts. It is turned off by default.

hf
 

ComicRack is 4 years old today. On the 27. May 2006 I made this post on comicrack.blogspot.com. (You have to stop your browser from redirecting - otherwise you will be moved back to this site :))

It took over half a year to reach more then 100 page views a day. Today this site averages at about 8000 page views a day. Times do change.

 If you want to to congratulate and wish ComicRack another 4 years, head over to the User Form.

People not following the daily Q&As and development messages in the User Forum may have missed the new WebComic feature. WebComics allow you to read eComics published on web pages directly in ComicRack.

So here is Freak Angels, over 600 pages of Warren Ellis at his best. Simply download and open with ComicRack.

 

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This release has two main areas of enhancement.

Network Shares can now define a quality for the shared eComics (this can greatly reduce the required bandwidth). Also there's a new Network Statistics Window to get an overview ofwhat is actually going on with your server.

The Plugin engine has been extended with the possibility to write information panel plugins (HTML or UI coded). Info panels can be used to display additional information for selected eComics or add new specialized editors. See the new samples in sample.py. Also if script packages are named .crplugin, they can be directly installed from within Explorer.

As always, a bunch of bug fixes completes this release.

Report your bugs here and your general comments about this version here.

hf

1.. 2.. 3.. ComicRack is here :)

This is mainly a bug fix release with some small improvements.
I turned some of the multi-core optimizations introduced in 0.9.122 off by default as they seem to have caused problems for some users. You can always turn them on again in ComicRack.ini (your mileage may vary depending on your machine).

If you use the automatic scanner and have a, let's say, creative folder structure or you don't want to add the comics describing the hardship of Japanese schoolgirls automatically to the library, it is now possible to fine tune the scanner by putting comicrackscanner.ini files into folders. This way you can tell the scanner exactly what to do (ignore this folder, ignore sub folders).

This release also adds the Czech language pack.

Report your bugs here and your general comments about this version here.

hf