While at Alaska Comic Camp, Dave Kellett had the opportunity to speak with cartoonist Lucy Knisley, a critically acclaimed and award-winning comic creator. She specializes in personal, confessional graphic novels and travelogues.

LUCY’S BOOKS

Lucy has published more than a dozen books, with several fantastic publishers. These have included: Simon & Schuster, First Second Books, Fantagraphics, Chronicle, Random House Graphics, Knopf and Rocky Pond. She has also contributed to many collections and anthologies at various publishers and made work for many periodicals and publications. Here are a few…

• Ride Beside Me
• Woa: A Housecat’s Story of Despair
• French Milk
• Relish: My Life in the Kitchen
• Stepping Stones
• Apple Crush
• Sugar Shack, the third in the Peapod Farm series, comes out August 2025!

You can reach out to Lucy via her Patreon page

Designing a logo for your comic can be surprisingly daunting. After all, many of us are artists or collaborate directly with artists. However, designing a logo requires a slightly different skill set than designing a comic panel. So, let’s talk about some DOs and DON’Ts that apply to good logo design.

Artists seem to draw a blank when it comes to posting content on social media. Let’s discuss some strategies for improving outreach.

It was an innocent enough comment. A beginner cartoonist was lamenting their social media results: “Now that I’m publishing my comic, I’m a little restless between the weekly updates, wondering if there’s more I can do to market it. I don’t think there’s much I can do at the moment largely, beyond sharing on social media on update day and responding to comments.”

I’ve advocated converting your comics into a panel-by-panel scroll for smartphone users for a while. I think it’s a good reading experience for Instagram, and I think it’s a good use of the multi-image post feature on Patreon. If you’ve taken that advice, then you’re already prepping the files, and I have another way for you to use these files. And if not, I will give you another reason you should.