Today’s show is sponsored by Huion, makers of the Huion Kamvas 22 (Gen 3) — a 21.5″ pen display with a gorgeous 2.5K screen and really smooth performance. Bottom line: it feels great to draw on — and it punches way above its price.

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Brad and Dave tackle a listener question that gets to the heart of creative careers: Can you make a living telling shorter stories, or does success demand long-form work? As always, the answer is equal parts practical advice and creative philosophy — grounded in real-world experience and delivered with ComicLab’s signature mix of humor and honesty.

TODAY’S SHOW

• Can you build a career on individual short stories?
• Market expectations around story length (comics, film, TV) and perceived value
• Creative problem-solving as a business tool — making unconventional formats work
• Strategies for packaging short stories (genre consistency, shared setting, through-lines)
• Examples of experimental storytelling formats (anthologies, vignette structures)
• PROMO: Huion Kamvas 22 (Gen 3) — features, workflow integration, and discount code ComicLab5 at https://comiclabshop.com
• Estate planning for cartoonists — what happens to your IP after death?
• Debate: Should creative work become public domain sooner?
• Should kids continue your comic… or make their own work?
• The reality of legacy comics vs. modern independent publishing