The holiday season has a way of sneaking up on us — and suddenly we’re juggling year-end deadlines, family commitments,...
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ComicLab Ep 417 — Special Guest Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott from “Baby Blues”
Syndicated cartoonists Jerry Scott and Rick Kirkman share their journey of collaboration that spans over 35 years, focusing on their...
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How Many Social-Media Posts Per Day?
According to a Very Popular Influencer, one should post on social media six to eight times daily. I disagree, and...
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Social media and behavioral modification
B.F. Skinner's research showed that rewards and punishments can alter a subject's behavior. We can use those same simple techniques...
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Webcomics Confidential: You’re wasting money on advertising
Unless you have a granular knowledge of advertising, demographics, and much more, you're probably wasting money on "plug-and-play" advertising and...
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ComicLab Ep 416 — What’s the Best Platform for Audience Building?
Where should you post if you want to build an audience? Substack delivers unbeatable audience-building tools... but it has some...
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Does Your Comic Have to Be in Color?
If you’re starting a new comic project, one of the first artistic decisions you’ll face is deceptively simple: color… or...
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Blambot’s Cyberweek Sale
Blambot's biggest sale of the year is happening now! Save 25% off your entire order at blambot.com. This sale runs...
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December To-Do List
It's already December. This month is dominated by holidays—both preparing for and celebrating them—and it's the end of the year....
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ComicLab Ep 415 — Color Commentary… Can You Succeed with a Black-and-White Comic?
Today's show is sponsored by Huion, makers of the Kamvas 22 Plus! In today's show, Brad and Dave tackle an...
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Mailbag: When Good Readers Go Bad
Q.: We recently had an overzealous reader leave a ton of comments on our site at once, with a handful of them talking about how much I “fascinate” him. He even asked for a photo of me (mentioning that he already checked google but couldn’t find any). He also doesn’t seem to understand that the character in our comic and I are not the same thing.
While I’m not too worried that this will turn into a serious problem, it’s still a little creepy. Do you have any advice on how to handle people like this? Do we point out that they’re being inappropriate and try to get them to tone down their weirdness? Or do we just ignore them and hope they go away?
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Punchline Hot Seat: Part Three
Part three in an ongoing critique of comics picked at random from participating members. As with before, if I re-write the punchline, I’m not necessarily trying to go funnier. I’m trying to demonstrate construction. I want to show how you re-assembling the logical steps along the progression of your comic can lead to a more polished punchline. It may not seem funnier for your sense of humor. But I’m confident that if you pay attention to the construction, you’ll be able to take away somethin that works for you.
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April Fool’s Day
<geezer mode>Back in the day, the Webcomics Community rallied around April Fool’s Day.</geezer mode>
Hecl, there were even organized events in which cartoonists would arrange in advance to swicth off and do each other’s titles for the day, sending readers into a supposed tizzy, trying to figure out who was doing what.
That kind of thing has died down somewhat, but I’m sure there’s still some pranksters out there celebrating the day.
Feel free to post links to April Fool’s webcomics in the Comments below.
April To-Do List
Get out your calendar and start circling dates. It’s time to do a little webcomics planning.
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Webcomics Weekly Episode 79: Reputation
In discussing Scott’s recent decision to cross the NCS off his bucket list, the Webcomics Weekly gang investigates how one’s reputation is effected by the past — both in positive and negative ways.
Webcomics Weekly Episode 79: Reputation
EDITOR’S NOTE: Unfortunately, the mp3 for this episode has been lost to the sands of time.
Dave recaps some recent work on his comic strip documentary and then Brad and Dave have a heart to heart with Scott about his blog post regarding the NCS and have an intervention of sort.
Punchline Hot Seat: Part Two
The first part of the random punchline critique went pretty well, so let’s press on. In a few of these, I’m going to re-write the punchline — but not for the reason you might think. I’m not trying to go funnier. I’m trying to demonstrate construction. I want to show how you re-assembling the logical steps along the progression of your comic can lead to a more polished punchline. It may not seem funnier for your sense of humor. But I’m confident that if you pay attention to the construction, you’ll be able to take away somethin that works for you.
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Poll Results: One More Hour
Last week, I asked what you would do if you had one more hour in the day to devote to your comic. With 123 members responding, the two dominant choices were art (29%) and writing (22%). Falling a distant third is a tie between Web-site improvement and Marketing / promotion (11% each).
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Scott Kurtz crosses the NCS off his bucket list
On Saturday, Scott Kurtz crossed joining the NCS off his bucket list.
Unfortunately, it’s not for the reason you might think.
As he states in his blog, this is the final stage in an overall journey for him. You’ll want to read the whole thing to really understand where he’s coming from. The last stage of his journey is acceptance:
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