about me
Hello, and welcome to my little corner of the internet! I'm Alex(he/fae), and online I go by snail-legs. I make comics and games, and sometimes I like to tinker with some HTML/CSS~
I'm currently working on:
- Nightmare Complex (working title)
- Phi's World (OC and world-building website)
Notice: I'm currently taking a break from comics to focus on games for the next while, so it'll be a little bit of a quiet period for this site.
contact me
My preferred method of contact would be via email! Feel free to write to me at alex@snail-legs.co.uk.
Below is a list of other platforms I'm on!
- itch.io @snail-legs
- For PDF downloads of my comics and zines!
- ko-fi @snaillegs
- My tip-jar, and online storefront. You can commission me here, or order print copies of some of my comics and zines.
- bluesky @snail-legs
- The social media I'm most likely to actually post on.
changelog
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- Happy 2025!!
- made a few small updates to this landing page~
- currently a little torn on whether I want to make a new layout or not sometime soon
- I like the theming/vibes of this one, but also there are a lot of places where it doesn't feel super polished!
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- Created a page for my OC-tober 2024 sketchbook!
- The temptation to try and redesign the site somehow... maybe make it dynamic... it still calls to me, but I don't think I have much faith in myself to pull it off.
- I've been enjoying working away at Phi's World though! Despite also being a static site with hundreds of images and html files to manage, it feels easier to work with...
- I'll have to think about ways to make this site more enjoyable to work on again too... I feel like I say that every time though ^^'
- The problem is that I do enjoy working with HTML, but the markup for things like comic pages is a little outtdated now and kind of a pain in the butt to update properly with how many comics are on the site!!
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- Oh oops it's been a while since I last updated the site! I've decided I'll be hosting my new comics/zines on itch.io for now - there are new projects there!! three of them!! Paige Turner & the Black Dog, Nightmare Complex Sketchbook, Top Surgery Diary.
- There's a new exhibit in the gallery! I thought it would be cute to use my gallery page as a place to show off collections of related works in little faux-exhibitions! I realise this isn't the usual way of doing an online gallery page, but I think doing it like this is more fun for me :)
- Uhh last little update is there's a new flute video in the music room!
- I definately... need to put more thought into restructuring the site to make it easier to update... but honestly I'm in the kind of mood where I'd prefer to focus on making my comics & zines (and ah. other things that I shan't talk about yet)
- oh and a teeny tiny update you probably won't have even noticed! I compressed the header image so it should load a bit quicker now :p
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- At long last, a new comic appears! Memories from the Beginning of Time.
- The next thing will hopefully be my top surgery diary, but not sure when that'll be. Would it be unhinged to try to finish it up for this years TDOV? Maybe.
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- I... I redesigned the site again lol. The previous version never even went live, rip... But we're back to being pink! And I think I like this version a lot :)
- I'm still thinking about what to do with the comic pages haha- there are just so many it's a little overwhelming to think of! So for now they get to stay on the old template.
- No dark mode this time. At least, not yet? I kinda designed the whole site around the header image haha...
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- Been slowly working my way through the to-do list! Most pages should be updated now, but I need to do a few more passes on the mobile-friendly version of it all before I'll upload the new design.
- The amount of stuff on this site that I'll have to update is um. overwhelming. I need to work on learning php or making my own ssg ASAP lol. Just haven't decided whether that'll come before or after deploying this update. Leaning towards before.
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- Spent some time trying to figure out if I could migrate the site to Jekyll... Unfortunately I don't think Jekyll will meet the needs of this site very well (not when I have so many comics on it dhjksahdka), so that idea's been scrapped. One of these days I'm going to snap and write my own static site generator lol
- Finished migrating things to the bookshelf, kind of. I need to improve my comic-page-generator.py script before I can mass-upload more comics I think. Very much related to above bullet hh
- Can you tell I'm at my wit's end with how many .html files I have to manage for this site.
- Spent some time trying to figure out if I could migrate the site to Jekyll... Unfortunately I don't think Jekyll will meet the needs of this site very well (not when I have so many comics on it dhjksahdka), so that idea's been scrapped. One of these days I'm going to snap and write my own static site generator lol
- Finished migrating things to the bookshelf, kind of. I need to improve my comic-page-generator.py script before I can mass-upload more comics I think. Very much related to above bullet hh
- Can you tell I'm at my wit's end with how many .html files I have to manage for this site.
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Hoo boy, whole lotta stuff happening to the site today.- I wanted to change things up a bit, so the layout & design of my main pages has once again been reworked! Expect further layout changes before things settle again.
- The snail log has been retired for now, with its contents planned to be relocated to the bookshelf and the gallery, depending on what feels most appropriate.
- the gallery makes it's triumphant return! It is part of the reason for today's redesign; I wanted to give my art some more breathing room here, and the old layout was a little compact for that.
- Changed the wording/layout of the Contact Me section of this page. Hopefully it feels more organised.
- The links page has also been retired for now; I feel like I wasn't very good at keeping it up-to-date.
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Another update summary! Some stuff added today, other stuff added since the last update.- Changed some of the wording on some pages... I'm trying to feel more Confident, so we're starting by trying to break the habit of not typing with any capital letters...
- Re-jigged the snail log a bit. Removed a bunch of older blog posts; they're still there, but the main snail-log page no longer links to them.
- New to the snail log: Book of Little Guys, SOME DRAGONS, Blender Learner Journal, and some OC-related pages! I'll probably move my OC/worldbuilding stuff to a subdomain at some point, so I'll not link them here yet.
- Also, there are some new sillies in the UTAU section of the music page!
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I am apparently dreadful at remembering to update the changelog... a summary of new things since the last update:- the first act of moon jellyfish kiss is now complete! I'm slowly working on adding transcripts to every page.
- we have a music page! and I made an UTAU
- oh, and the snail log got some mini zines! I also uploaded some sketchbooks there [1][2][3].
- as far as actual changes to the site go, we moved to a new host!
- otherwise I'm pretty happy with the site right now so most of the updates have been me uploading new art/comics/stuff!
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ohhh wow, big update today! I had another go at retheming my site, much happier with the general vibe of this attempt!- the new font is atkinson hyperlegible!
- everything is sort of... rounder with less borders? and gradients have been removed!
- the site now has new light mode and dark mode themes! done via a
prefers-color-scheme: darkmedia query - the theme displayed should line up with your browser preferences - updated the blog layout to match the new themes of the main site. blog pages don't have custom colours anymore, but it'll make it much easier for me to update the blog styling in future if needed ^^'
- updated the comics layout too - same as above, more matchy-matchy (with the exception of moon jellyfish kiss) but hopefully easier to maintain this way!
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I think I'm more or less finished with the new layout! I might retheme it as well at some point, but I'll have to have a think about what that'll look like.
you might notice some changes to the about section also :) -
started work on a redesign of the site! we're going back to having a sidebar except this time I have slightly different tastes lol
if nothing else, I've learnt more flexbox now and don't need to rely on bootstrap for this kinda layout anymore! -
posted becoming, my latest zine! it's some reflections and thoughts on gender and where I am with my transition :-) -
started uploading moon jellyfish kiss, my new webcomic! -
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new art in the gallery! -
uploaded a new zine! manifesto (of the alex otherwise known as snail-legs), made as part of manifesto jam 2022 - lots of cool manifestos there, 100% reccomend checking them out. -
- new art in the gallery!
- updated the links page! now everything is (loosely) categorised for easier browsing :-)
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redecorated my microblog! -
new art in the gallery :-)
might reformat the gallery at some point... I'm thinking about it. -
I wrote a knitting pattern! it makes a simple lil dice bag, v cute.
(if anyone makes one I'd love to see!) -
new art in the gallery! -
uploaded my hourlies from hourly comics day 2022! (they were finished late on the 1st, so I posted them on the 2nd) -
- added quite a few new links to the links page!
- little css changes here and there - we have custom scrollbars now :-)
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- new comic: first flight!!
- also, the comic pages no longer rely on javascript! I wrote some python and managed to mostly automate the process of converting them from JS to HTML.
- also also, changed the fonts around again.
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we now have an RSS feed! it's cobbled together by hand but should be perfectly functional, provided I remember to update it :-) -
- made a new blog page for my new years resolutions!
- there is also a handful of new posts on the microblog :-)
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I made a microblog! it's mostly for shorter + less-fully formed thoughts and feelings aha,,
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- re-arranged some of the images in the gallery, and added some concept art from earlier in the year that I like!
- I also finished work on the art shop and it's ready to go and everything, I'm just. nervous about uploading it. I should upload it. I will. but not today.
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a final update on my nanowrimo project, now that November is over :'-) -
it shouldn't look like much has changed from your end, but pls notice my pretty urls! I reorganised all of my pages into proper subdirectories. it was kinda painful.
you may need to hard-refresh any pages you visit for them to work! most of the old links are broken now :'-)
speaking of links, we also have the beginnings of a links page! I made some badges after being given a nudge by noa-s and will slowly be adding links to sites I think are neat! -
new art :-) -
small tweaks to logo & site footer, plus a new favicon finally! -
- uploaded a new comic! letters from the end of a world
- also we have a new site header/logo!
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- made a couple of changes to fonts! hope you like snail scrawl :-)
- uploaded the last 7 pages of factory town
- made the JavaScript I use for my comic pages available! I hope it's useful to someone!
- updated my nanowrimo tracker :'-)
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befriended my printer, feeling good! -
- I'm doing nanowrimo this year! I'll be tracking my progress on this blog page.
- also been working on the art shop... it's coming along and will open soon!
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new blog post full of pictures from going to the arboretum! -
- finished populating my pages
- updated blog post layout
- used my epic javascript powers to create a fancy layout for comic pages ;-)
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- started work on current iteration of the site! we're going teal, farewell pink </3
- set up new page layout and new pages, new styling also!
- started populating pages...
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new blog post about writing, perfectionism, and comics! -
- blog post about gender envy
- final tweaks to blog page layout
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uploaded the dragon knights -
added a custom highlight colour! -
started uploading heart of the sea -
started setting up for a blog! -
LADS!! WE HAVE A DOMAIN NAME!!! :-D -
- started working on previous iteration of the site
- basic page layout
- minimal CSS