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Monday, February 8, 2010 at 7:51AM Here are some very good pieces that discuss copyright law:
Brad Templeton's Brief Intro to Copyright is an excellent primer on copyright law, and his 10 Myths About Copyright Explained contains some common misconceptions about the subject.
Monday, February 8, 2010 at 7:49AM If you've exhibited at this convention in the past, please post your experience below.
Monday, February 8, 2010 at 7:48AM If you've exhibited at this convention in the past, please post your experience below.
Monday, February 8, 2010 at 7:47AM If you've exhibited at this convention in the past, please post your experience below.
Friday, February 5, 2010 at 5:00AM Today's Archive Dive comes from May 28, 2009. We discussed the About page. It just might have some ideas that would be good for that advertising landing page we discussed yesterday.
Is there are more under-sung hero on the webcomics home page than the About page? In one, simple file, it allows us webcartoonists to achieve something that no previous cartoonists were able to efficiently do: Quickly indoctrinate a new reader. Newspaper comic strips have to be ruthlessly standalone. Every day they have to be completely accessible to a new reader. While the same is somewhat true for the daily webcartoonist, we have an ace in the hole. The About page, when organized and presented well, takes that moderately interested onlooker and prepares her to become a new reader. It's easy to become jaded with the About page. It's as obligatory as the copyright at the bottom of the page. But with that familiarity comes a degree of contempt. Many webcartoonists aren't using them to their full potential. So let's look at some aspects of About pages that work...
