So way back in the dawn of Webcomics, I came up with this nutty idea.  Since I didn't want to spend actual time drawing a Webcomic, I figured I'd put together some Perl scripts to draw one.  Toonbots ran from 2000 to late 2001, eventually adopting a sort of fractal hiatus pattern and limping along even until this year.  And who knows?  The Muse may kick back in any day.

My dream had always been to put the Toon-o-Matic online where anybody could use it.  And early this year I managed to do just that -- I put it up, let my regulars (both of them) whack it a bit, worked the most egregious bugs out, and ... well, to be honest, I got sidetracked on things like spam botnet tracking and prose fiction and my actual paying work of technical translation.

But the Toon-o-Matic is actually running.  It's just waiting for your input. If you have a particularly manic point of view, you also don't like the manual drawing so much as the writing process, and you're willing either (a) to put up with a set of tools which force a haiku-like style, or (b) wait for me to extend the toolset as my whim allows, then maybe you'd be interested in using it to produce your own Webcomics.

If you do, I'll host it free of charge, and do my best to keep you supplied with fun new tools to use in your comics.  But as for me, for the time being my well has run dry.  Toonbots was always the byproduct; I was having much more fun with the Toon-o-Matic.