EARLY DAYS
Chris' GMod Comic (CGMC) was created on July 25th 2007. I got the idea to create my own GMod comic after reading Concerned: The Half-Life and Death of Gordon Frohman by Christopher Livingston. The first handful of episodes were all rushed out at a ratio of one per day, as I got idea after idea. At this time, I had little knowledge of how to use the physics gun properly, so the posing was terrible. Quality was low in the first lot of comics because of my graphics settings in GMod; I had a really shitty graphics card at the time, so Low Quality was all I could handle without the game crashing.
Eventually, I upgraded my graphics card and, on the advice of some people on a forum where I posted a link to the comic, I put my quality settings back up to High. Thus, did the quality of comics vastly improve (though my posing skills didn't).
I often thought about going back to these old episodes and remaking them, but I've now decided that I won't. The first episodes will serve as a history of the comic, detailing my leap from bad quality and posing to what the comic is today.
HOSTING
The comic was originally hosted at http://www.curquhart.co.uk/gmod [no longer exists], but when I realised more people were reading the comic instead of downloading my VB apps (which is what curquhart.co.uk was for at that time), I decided to make the swap. A few tweaks later and the comics new home was http://www.curquhart.co.uk. [no longer exists]
In 2009, I finally decided to get a proper .com domain for the comic, as I felt this would generate more readers (which it did). At first, the host was 1&1 Internet. But I soon came to realise that they were too expensive, so I set about transferring the domain to FatCow, as they were much cheaper.
FatCow became the new hosts and the comic's new home became http://www.chrisgmodcomic.com [no longer exists]. After a while, though, the domain eventually expired and I couldn't afford to renew it; it was snatched up by one of those vile domain holding companies and effectively held to ransom. At one point, the company that owned the domain was demanding a selling price of over $5,000! I managed to regain control of the domain myself after a few years of this shit, but - again - the domain expired and I have once again lost ownership, so the comic returned to its ancestral home at curquhart.co.uk, where it remained until that too expired. Now it is being hosted here, by Namecheap, on the site I use to showcase my MLP fanfiction. Go figure.
THE COMICS
For the most part, CGMC doesn't really have a plot, as most of the comics are a series of random jokes in either single or multi panel varieties. Episode 108 began the running joke in which CGMC is portrayed as a studio, and that all the people in the comics are actors.
My first attempt at creating a storyline was 'Exodus of the Peons,' which spanned Episodes 118, 119 and 120. Part One was my 'actors' going on strike after realising I wasn't actually paying them, Part Two was me attempting to break the strike and Part Three was the negotiations.
The next storyline was Sal And Lars, which started at Episode 148 and had fourteen parts (sixteen if you count the Prologue and the Epilogue). After concluding this arc, I realised that some of the other characters in the story also had stories to tell, so I began with the story of Jack, which debuted at Episode 169 and had twelve parts. I then followed up with Simon's story, starting at Episode 193, though it currently remains unfinished.
The first Flash-based multi panel comic was Episode 67. However, this comic wasn't exactly perfect, as some people had difficulty keeping up with it. Episode 97 was the next Flash-based multi panel comic, and it used the 'comic book' format, which allowed readers to view it at their own pace. When news reached me in April 2020 that browsers would be ending Flash support, I began the process of converting them to JPG images, a task I didn't actually complete until February 2024. You can blame real life and/or general laziness on my part for that one.
THE MOTTO
I came up with the 'Updates Whenever' motto when I ran out of ideas in the first few weeks. I then updated whenever I got an idea, so there you go.
IN CLOSING
So that's pretty much all there is to know about CGMC. I hope to continue the comic for a very long time. And as long as people keep reading, I will keep creating (unless I run out of ideas like I seem to do a lot these days).