The Dollar Dreadful Family Library
Actually, I made two sites this weekend. Will Staehle designed it and I built it.
There are only previews of the Dreadfuls at the moment, but the full versions should be available for sale in the next month or so.
From the press release:
“DDFL is a collection of exciting, thrilling, and ghastly short stories with exquisite vintage illustrations that hearken back to the Penny Dreadfuls or Dime novels of the early 1900s.
Indeed, there is something here for everyone — and at an affordable price which the whole family can agree upon!
Collect all three and share them with your friends or display them proudly in your washroom where visitors can enjoy a quick read as they attend to their business! You won’t be disappointed — for where else can you discover enormous family fun for such a small price?”
That’s very nice work. Looks amazing.
Comment by jon deal — June 20, 2007 @ 8:14 am
This is neat and also somehow the giantest website I’ve ever seen. I am always trying to do this oldtime typography work and failing miserably. It’s just like my first three marriages.
Will’s website keeps making my browser cry every time I go to it (it works just fine without the resizing!).
P.S. why do browsers still allow this to happen? Can’t some of those Firefox guys mumbojumbo out this feature in about 20 seconds?
P.P.S. I just had the best soup. Seriously. Cajun chicken and chorizo. Also full of rice.
P.P.P.S. I think I might be missing Twitter after all.
Comment by Pierce — June 21, 2007 @ 5:30 am
Yeah, it’s a huge site. It harkens back to the mid-to-late 19th Century, when all browser windows were at least 1400 pixels wide.
I’m sorry to hear about your third marriage ending. Here’s to No. 4!
P.S. I looked into the browser window resizing problem and made a quick patch for Firefox. It should have automatically updated on your computer, so just go to the Content tab of your Firefox Preferences, and click the Advanced button next to “Enable JavaScript.” Then uncheck the box that says “Move or resize existing windows.” That should do it.
P.P.S. Yum.
P.P.P.S. Twitter deleted my account suddenly and without warning. One minute it was working great, and the next it was just gone, and they had no record of me ever existing.
Comment by Feaverish — June 21, 2007 @ 8:31 am
Hey wow. That JavaScript thingumy worked. Thanks. I guess now my complaint is: “They should have it disabled by default. Bloody amateur hour.”
I’d always assumed you deleted your own Twitter account because on some level you began hating yourself and everyone else involved with it. That’s kind of why I stopped using it…
Comment by Pierce — June 21, 2007 @ 11:54 pm
Actually I think Twitter is the kind of writing I’m most comfortable with…
Comment by Feaverish — June 22, 2007 @ 7:34 am