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Tomorrow is the first day of September, and the kids are headed back to school. Which is great is you’re a webcartoonist, because that means they’re returning to reading webcomics from school.
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Hitch it: Fabulous, retro-styled art with a tightly controlled palette. This comic has a tremendous visual appeal. And the dated look of the comic makes the edgy content that much edgier. I really like the way this comic looks. I’d like to encourage Erik to kick the Web design up a few notches so that it’s on-par with the visual appeal of the comic. Right now that comic deserves a much better-looking site.
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This is a question that was submitted to Webcomics Weekly podcast that we never got to address, so I thought it would make a good discussion topic here.
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Hitch It: Attention to excellent visuals. It’s easy to dismiss a comic like the Daily Blink as a sprite comic, but Chris and Michael clearly put a ton of effort into the visual aspect of their work. Take this update, for instance, in which the foreground character in the third panel is blurred to imitate a camera’s depth-of-field effect. This comic pushes its visuals to make awesome reading experiences. And that’s why it’s so hard for me to understand the following…
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Kickstarter has become the go-to fund-raising platform for many webcomics. Scott Kurtz and Kris Straub used it to great success in funding their new Web series, and Dave Kellett is currently using it to complete production on his upcoming documentary about comics in the Digital Age, “Stripped.”
If you’re trying to decide between the two, it is your responsibility to read and understand the Terms of Use for each. Here is the Kickstarter contract, and here is the contract for IndieGOGO.
Comparing the two, I’ve spotted the following:
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Hitch It: Chris handles the duties of writing a daily strip admirably. His jokes land solid with a respectful frequency. He’s got a very good voice as a humorist. And he knows how to set up a gag very well. But most of all, he’s very good at pacing his strips from day to day. This is a comic strip that you can drop a person into the archives at any point, and they’ll be in the groove in no time. Minor characters are subtly re-introduced within the context of a strip, for example. And the story moves smoothly from day to day without jarring bumps or leaps. Chris has a very good grip on the balancing act of presenting a funny daily strip that makes it very easy for a new reader to become a regular one.
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This post was kindly submitted by John Bogenschutz:
Recently, I attended a Reds game up in Cincinnati with my family. Around the 7th inning came the inevitable wave. It successfully made its way around the entire stadium a good ten times, which was actually pretty impressive. As I watched the wave go around I knew it would eventually come to an end. But why?
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I wanted to test out Scribol. It’s a glorified link exchange. You run a widget that delivers simple ads for other comics, and in return, ads for your comic runs on other sites.
I started out by testing it in my 120×600 skyscraper spot, to the left of my blog. Not prominent, but enough to gauge any traffic bumps.
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It’s something that webcartoonists hear from fans all the time: “What’s the best way for me to show my support?”
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Obviously, the best way is to buy merchandise.
Some readers offer to click on ads every day when they visit my site. I actually discourage that. Although I’m not sure, I have a feeling that some of my advertisers can easily track incoming traffic, and seeing click-through via my site from the same ISP address is not going to reflect on my site in a positive way.
It also skews my view of the performance of a given ad or type of ad — which might encourage me to pursue advertisers that aren’t necessarily the right fir for my site.
So I discourage auto-clicking.
Dropping a polite line to the promoters of a favorite comic convention (or other trade show / speaking opportunity) is a great way for a fan to show his or her support — especially if they write to encourage the convention to invite you to the show as a guest.
That kind of outreach is noticed by promoters. And if it leads to a free table and/or travel expenses, that fan has helped your bottom line considerably.
This is the big, cost-free, high-return way that your readers can support you without spending a dime: Spread the word using the social networking media of their choice.
Whether it’s Twitter, Facebook, Google+, StumbleUpon, Digg, Reddit, Delicious, or one of the myriad other ways that people can share their finds on the Web, your fans spreading the word about your comic is exponentially more powerful than any kind of advertising that you could buy. And it doesn’t cost a dime.
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