diff --git a/dosagelib/scraper.py b/dosagelib/scraper.py
index 5e3acbf31..04b463664 100644
--- a/dosagelib/scraper.py
+++ b/dosagelib/scraper.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 import requests
 import time
 from . import loader
-from .util import fetchUrl, fetchUrls, getPageContent
+from .util import fetchUrl, fetchUrls, getPageContent, makeList
 from .comic import ComicStrip
 from .output import out
 from .events import getHandler
@@ -104,9 +104,11 @@ class _BasicScraper(object):
         imageUrls = fetchUrls(url, data, baseUrl, self.imageSearch)
         imageUrls = set(map(self.imageUrlModifier, imageUrls))
         if len(imageUrls) > 1 and not self.multipleImagesPerStrip:
-            out.warn("found %d images instead of 1 at %s with %s" % (len(imageUrls), url, self.imageSearch.pattern))
+            patterns = [x.pattern for x in makeList(self.imageSearch)]
+            out.warn("found %d images instead of 1 at %s with patterns %s" % (len(imageUrls), url, patterns))
         elif not imageUrls:
-            out.warn("found no images at %s with %s" % (url, self.imageSearch.pattern))
+            patterns = [x.pattern for x in makeList(self.imageSearch)]
+            out.warn("found no images at %s with patterns %s" % (url, patterns))
         return ComicStrip(self.getName(), url, imageUrls, self.namer, self.session)
 
     def getStrips(self, maxstrips=None):
diff --git a/dosagelib/util.py b/dosagelib/util.py
index 056393e58..76bbb9213 100644
--- a/dosagelib/util.py
+++ b/dosagelib/util.py
@@ -136,20 +136,25 @@ def getImageObject(url, referrer, session, max_content_bytes=MaxImageBytes):
     return urlopen(url, session, referrer=referrer, max_content_bytes=max_content_bytes)
 
 
+def makeList(item):
+    """If tiem is already a list or tuple, return it.
+    Else return a list with item as single element."""
+    if isinstance(item, (list, tuple)):
+        return item
+    return [item]
+
+
 def fetchUrls(url, data, baseUrl, urlSearch):
     """Search all entries for given URL pattern(s) in a HTML page."""
     searchUrls = []
-    if isinstance(urlSearch, (types.ListType, types.TupleType)):
-        searches = urlSearch
-    else:
-        searches = [urlSearch]
+    searches = makeList(urlSearch)
     for search in searches:
         for match in search.finditer(data):
             searchUrl = match.group(1)
             if not searchUrl:
                 raise ValueError("Pattern %s matched empty URL at %s." % (search.pattern, url))
             out.debug('matched URL %r with pattern %s' % (searchUrl, search.pattern))
-            searchUrls.append(normaliseURL(urlparse.urljoin(baseUrl, searchUrl)))
+            searchUrls.append(normaliseURL(urljoin(baseUrl, searchUrl)))
         if searchUrls:
             # do not search other links if one pattern matched
             break