April To-Do List
Get out your calendar and start circling dates. It’s time to do a little webcomics planning.The content you are trying to access is only available to members.
Get out your calendar and start circling dates. It’s time to do a little webcomics planning.The content you are trying to access is only available to members.
As James pointed out, the last time I reviewed his comic I said that I hated his lettering with a white-hot passion, and I’m happy to say that the lettering has improved.
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Here’s a late-breaking tip from the floor of Emerald City Comicon. I spent the weekend exhibiting along with Scott Kurtz and Tavis Maiden, and I was admiring Tavis’ cool spot-gloss business cards.
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It’s time for another Hot Seat, and it’s been a while since we discussed some cartooning fundamentals, so let’s do a Lettering/Word Balloon Hot Seat.
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It’s the most misunderstood concept in the creative professions: Copyright and trademark. The recent episode of Surviving Creativity does an excellent job of helping you understand the difference between the two — with the help of lawyer Katie Lane!
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Patreon is proving itself to be a formidable tool for monetizing webcomics. Here are a few tips to consider before you launch yours.
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Along with the Members Only Chat (see the link at the upper, left-hand corner of the site), there’s a new site feature I want to make sure you know about. We’ve launched a new Webcomics.com Calendar!
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I’ve got a comics pet peeve that’s been driving me crazy lately, and this seems like a good place to vent my spleen.
We keep giving our readers the finger.
It’s especially rampant in humor strips. We get to the last panel, the punchline is delivered, and I look under the word balloon, and there’s the speaker, pointing his index finger in the air.
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You may have noticed something over the past few weeks. You’ll see Google Analytics reporting a huge spike in traffic — and then later in the day, you’ll see that your stats have been adjusted to normal levels. What just happened? Did someone “steal” your readers? Were they ever there?! The answer is pretty interesting.
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Having launched a Patreon page for my comic strip, I was keen to add a permanent Patreon icon in a prominent position above my comic. I use Comics Easel / WordPress, and that has a pre-coded interface for social-media buttons. It would be a perfect place for a Kickstarer button or a Patreon button. But until those get included in a future update, I was going to have to wing it.
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