Andrew Bell has one of the coolest, fun blogs I've encountered. Called "the creatures my head", the blog has daily pen and ink drawings squeezed out of the depths of Andrew's mind. His creatures are presumably the type that lurk throughout your home when you're a child. You know the kind - the ones no adults can see?

There also elements of the bizarre European master Hieronymous Bosch, whose creatures were truly nightmarish. But Andrew's creature are too-gosh darn fugly-cute to be scary. Hey, some of they even look cuddle-worthy.

The site has a clean, easy-to-use interface that has had a lot of though put into it, and should be an inspiration to any artists and photographers out there that need a design paradigm to showcase visual work. While Andrew does have a "subscribe" panel for email updates, the thing that I didn't find on Andrew's blogsite is an RSS or Atom web feed.

Andrew, your blog is begging for a web feed. You could easily create a web feed, at no cost, containing thumbnails of your drawings. This might be a way to make your blog "sticky", and a treat for your subscribers. I guess this feed would be a variation on photocasting. Say comixcasting? You could also offer a premium comixcasting feed for paid subscribers. (This would take a bit more effort than a non-secure feed.)

FeedCraft is one example of a service that can help you build a feed from non-journal web pages. Despite my earlier mention, Tom Markiewicz informed me that they do have a free single-feed option. However, you do not get feed tracking features.

Alternately, comixcasting is essentially the same as photocasting, so you can follow my tips on doing this, if you're using RSS 2.0. (Atom may be able to do this as well.)

Links: Andrew Bell - The Creatures In My Head; FeedCraft - feed creation, plans comparison.

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