This week, Dave returns from Alaska Comics Camp with a glowing review of what he calls one of the most...
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Estimated taxes are due Monday
Just a handy reminder: If you pay estimated income taxes, your second-quarter payment is due on Monday, June 15. The...
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Two things every longform comic needs
If you're writing a longform comic, you know the challenge all too well. You're telling a continuous story, but many...
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How to build an audience on Substack
Out of all the social media newcomers, Substack has shown the most promise. It's an email newsletter delivery system with...
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ComicLab Ep 442 — Hiring a Social-Media Manager
Should cartoonists hire a social-media manager? Brad and Dave discuss the pros and cons of outsourcing social media and ultimately...
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When are you ready for a Kickstarter?
You have enough work to collect into a book. You know how to collect estimates from a printer. You may...
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SEO for webcomics
A few years ago, a lot of cartoonists moved away from their own websites and started putting all their energy...
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June To-Do LIst
It's June. We're nearly halfway through the year already! The content you are trying to access is only available to...
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ComicLab Ep 441 — Quiet on the Set
With both Brad and Dave nominated for awards this year, the guys spiral into a surprisingly deep conversation about awards,...
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Survivor Bias in Comics
A ComicLab listener submitted a question for the show: "Some successful artists honestly believe that others aren’t successful because they...
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Book Cover Hot Seat: Urban Jungle
I’m going to start the Book Cover Hot Seats this week. There’s still room in the Open Call if you’d like to participate.
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Mailbag: Book design for multiple volumes
Q: I’ve started production on my second print collection of comics and was hoping I could get you to talk a bit about your book covers.
I like the layout of my first one, and I’m thinking of going with the same theme, but new title and new character illustrations, different colours, much the way you did the first four Evil Inc Annual Reports. You’ve started switching up five and six a bit, was this a business decision or personal design preferences? Are you finding the variety helpful or harmful to sales in any way? Do you have any recommendations, keep a theme, change the theme? And how important is it that the two books compliment each other side by side or on the shelf? For example, in terms of colours should I be worried if the two covers clash? Should I make a point to choose complimentary ones? (I don’t know if that’s over thinking on my part.)
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Creating Comics in Adobe Illustrator
Today’s post is very kindly submitted by Margaret Trauth, creator of Decrypting Rita. As always, you can click on the images to get a bigger version of the image.
I figured it might be interesting to write a bit about my very idiosyncratic process of making comics directly in Adobe Illustrator. So here’s a start-to-finish about how a page happened.
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Business of Webcomics Panel at Comic Con International
I was able to record the Business of Webcomics panel at Comic Con International on July 13, 2012. I moderated the discussion which featured Scott Kurtz and Robert Khoo.
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Humor Analysis, Part Three: How to Think Like Jim Henson
Today’s post is the last of a three-part series geneously submitted by Jaya Lakshmi. It started two Mondays ago, continued last Monday, and concludes today.
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Coloring Tutorial: The Danger of Shading on the Edge
Today’s post has been very kindly submitted by Mary Cagle:
Something that drives me crazy about a lot of cel shading is that the artist only lines the edge of their figures with shadow.
As a demonstration, here’s a recent panel of my comic shaded in such a way:
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PulsePoint (nee ContextWeb) drops to… zero?
Folks, due to the breaking-news nature of this post, I’m bringing you tomorrow’s post today. There will be no site post tomorrow — unless more breaking news happens!
If you use PulsePoint (which used to be called ContextWeb), you may have noticed that your stats have dropped to zero since about July 12.
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Digital Download Monthly Comic — Update
As you may recall from this initial post, I’ve started experimenting with the idea of releasing all of my comics for a given month at the beginning of that month as a digital download. I offer a downloadable PDF for the iPad market, and I’ve used Kindle Direct Publishing to make a MOBI file available on Amazon.com for people who own a Kindle Fire.
When I released the July comic, I had a bit of a “waitaminute…” moment.
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Humor Analysis, Part Two: The Modern and Modern-Appearing Comics
Today’s post is the first of a three-part series geneously submitted by Jaya Lakshmi. It started last Monday and it will conclude next Monday.
In the previous entry, we looked at two Calvin and Hobbes strips because Bill Watterson knew how to write humor. Now we shall see how two other cartoonists gained syndication and have developed reputable followings.
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