Get out your calendar and start circling dates. It’s time to do a little webcomics planning.
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Today is the first of a series of group critiques on Web design. Same rules as all Hot Seat critiques. I’ll share some thoughts on the topic and then open it up to discussion. Links to the comics being discussed are in the headers.
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You probably already know about the Great Website Outage of 2013. Blind Ferret hosting, which is the home to several fantastic comics (and Emerald City Comicon’s Web site) fell victim to hackers who deleted all of the Web sites on the Blind Ferret servers — as well as the back-ups that, evidently, were also hosted on the servers.
So let’s talk about backing up our Web sites.
As this case study shows us, it’s not enough to assume that your Web host couldn’t fall victim to this sort of thing, too. If your Web site is important to your livlihood, you’d better take a few moments every month and make sure you have your own back-up just in case.
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We cartoonists are a stagnant lot. We sit in front of our drawing boards/tablets and then we sit some more in front of our computers. I wanted to pass along a few thoughts on how we could mitigate the effect that’s having on our bodies.
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It’s time to start gathering your documents to prepare for tax season once again.
Along those lines, here are some links to sites with helpful information.
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Thank you to John Bogenschutz for sharing the process behind his convention set-up.
I’ve been doing the convention scene for a little over a year now (somewhat new at this so take it with a grain of salt), but already my booth has transformed a lot during that time. The biggest change was the fact that I started out with a 10′ x 10′ booth and now use a 10′ x 20′ booth size. Sure it’s double the cost but it is well worth it for what I have to offer to my customers.
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As I mentioned in an earlier post, ad revenue tends to plummet in the first part of the year. Most businesses are reassessing their budgets in the first quarter, and most of them habitually cut back on spending until those budgets are cleared. It’s especially noticeable coming after November and December, when ad budgets are ablaze with holiday-shopping promotion. It’s a steep drop that puts me into an annual panic.
And right around now, you’re probably getting “helpful advice” from your ad networks, like this…
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Thank you to member Chris Hart for sharing his process on creating halftones. Click on the images to see them larger. Please note: These instructions are meant for producing halftome bitmaps for print. To create a halftone bitmap that’s going to look good on the Web, there are a few extra steps.
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There’s a pretty level-headed piece from First Second Books making the rounds that discusses an important topic in comics: When to give up. It’s worth your time to read.
It’s written from very much the same standpoint as a site post I did here back in 2010 titled “If It All Falls Down.” From that post:
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As happens from time to time in webcomics, we’re entering another period of time in which creators are being inundated with a lot of amazing claims. As you’ve seen in the forum, new webcomic aggregator sites (like this one and this one) seem to be on the rise. And my inbox is full of people who are trying to make sense of amazing claims of new business models and overnight success that they’re hearing from other sources.
So let’s take a moment to try to make sense of it all.
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