About The Other Murdock Papers
About the site
Being one of those crazy fans who finds the wait between issues to be nearly unbearable, I realized I had to do something to be able to spend some time with my favorite fictional character on a more regular basis. I wanted a place to just post random thoughts and ideas, and have a little fun with stuff dug up from the murky archives of Daredevil history. Hence this blog.
On this site, are posts covering all aspects of the Daredevil character and his book, from all time periods. They come in the form of series along different themes, as well as news and reviews. Some of these posts are just for laughs, and others are more serious. It depends on the mood I’m in, and I also strive for a certain amount of diversity when it comes to the content. I want there to be something for everyone to read.
At this point, it probably sounds like I take myself and this blog very seriously. I really don’t, I’m just doing this for fun. If other people get a kick out of coming here, that’s even better. Which brings me to the issue of commenting. I love comments. They make me feel less alone in cyberspace. I currently don’t moderate the comments, and I doubt that I’ll ever have to. But while we’re on the subject, there is one hard and fast rule, and that is a show of respect and common courtesy. Simple enough? Then, let’s move on.
A brief blog history – and a look ahead
This blog was originally hosted on Blogger, and moved to self-hosted Wordpress in September of 2009 after being online since December 2007. I felt that it was time for the blog to grow and since web design is something of a hobby of mine, I decided I needed a new challenge as well.
That means that the site will continue to grow and change over time. I always appreciate comments and suggestions about new things to explore. I don’t always get to them right away, depending on where my inspiration takes me, but know that I welcome them all.
Accessibility features
Since moving to the Wordpress platform, I have started a new project connected to this site, and that is to create a universally accessible comic book blog. I don’t know if there are any others out there, but I suspect that they are, at the very least, few and far in between. I have dabbled in accessible web design as part of my job, and thought it might be an interesting experiment to try to make a site about Daredevil that the title character himself, if he were real, would be able to make sense of.
In practice, this entails not only adding appropriate alternative tags to images, providing descriptive links and a logical heading structure, but giving full descriptions of panels, with the accompanying dialogue. This information is hidden by default – since most people will not want to read this – but will be automatically available to anyone using a screen reader or any other form of text-only browser. Those who just wish to take a look at how this works, can see hidden text become visible when viewing the page without a style sheet, in a browser like Firefox (Go to View -> Page Style -> No Style). This is a work in progress, but all posts which do comply with my accessibility standards can be viewed by clicking this link. Right now, most of these are posts which don’t have panels, but some of them do, and if so a description is available.
About me
My name is Christine, I’m in my early thirties, and live in Stockholm, Sweden. When I came across Daredevil a few years ago, it pulled me back into reading comics, a hobby I’d enjoyed as a child and then abandoned. I’ve added quite a few titles to my pull-list over the last couple of years, but Matt Murdock remains my favorite comic book character and will always remain the focus of this site. If you have any questions, check out the Frequently Asked Questions, or contact me at theothermurdockpapers@gmail.com, or by using the form below. Thank you for checking out my site!
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Christine is a thirty something Daredevil fan from Sweden who spends way too much of her free time writing posts for this blog. Check the