ComicLab Ep 384 — Narration or dialogue?

It's a jam-packed show this week! Brad and Dave argue over the better delivery for story exposition — dialogue or...
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How do I get my work ‘out there?’

It's one of the most pressing questions in webcomics — where to post. Should you post on Webtoons? — Tapas?...
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Kishōtenketsu — storytelling without conflict

Kishōtenketsu (起承転結, pronounced "kee-show-ten-ketsu") is a traditional plot structure in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean literature and poetry, derived from the...
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Should you create your own font?

Several software packages and websites offer to enable you to create a font based on your hand lettering. And it's...
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Writing ‘beat to beat’

I've been writing longform comics on the Web for ten years. Building and maintaining my audience requires a consistent posting...
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ComicLab Ep 383 — Paint the Wall Red

In a recent interview for the National Cartoonists Society, Greg Evans (the creator of the newspaper comic strip "Luanne") spoke...
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Inverted word-balloon tails

It's part of the comics lexicon familiar to manga and manhwa readers: an inverted word-balloon tail indicating that the speaker...
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Tax panic

Today is the federal income tax deadline in the United States. But ... what if you owe money and can’t...
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Anatomy of a Kickstarter Campaign

On a recent episode of ComicLab, Dave Kellett shared the real numbers from the Kickstarter campaign for his latest book,...
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Plotting and pacing a comic

Plotting and pacing are crucial elements in creating a compelling comic. Plotting is simply deciding which story points are essential...
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