It’s time to shake off the Halloween hangover, adjust to Daylight Savings Time (which hits this weekend) and get started on the penultimate month of 2010.
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Getting media coverage for your comic is a great way to garner some no-cost promotion for yourself. But finding someone who wants to do a story about you can be difficult. Heck, finding someone who wants to do yet another “Look, kids! Comics on the Web!” story is getting to be darned hard.
Here’s a pretty neat way to get some media attention — from news sources that are hoping you’ll get in touch.
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This piece was kindly submitted by J.R. Faulkner, and is sourced by Katherine Shanta Wehrli, Certified Yogini and Wellness Coach.
A short while ago, we talked about some exercises for keeping your hands healthy. Here is the second part, with even more tips on keeping your digits decent.
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To wrap up our discussion of image preparation, here’s a few thoughts on resolution.
Let’s keep this simple, shall we?
For the Web, your image should be 72 dpi*
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A few people in webcomics got their knickers in a twist yesterday when a Slate article was misrepresented as having said Doonesbury‘s Gary Trudeau said that you can’t make a living doing webcomics.
Let’s get the quote correct:
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As we discussed last week, preparing your images for CMYK printing is going to factor into your future as you grow your webcomic business. As such, let’s take a detailed look at some of the specific challenges faced when trying to print comics in color.
First, I’m going to assume that you’re scanning black-and-white lineart in for coloring via Photoshop or some other image-manipulation software. If you’re working in Photoshop using a tablet, feel free to skip ahead. If you’re scanning in full-color paintings, you’ve got a level of complexity I’m not sure I’m qualified to comment upon!
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Building on an excellent discussion of color in the Private Forum, I want to take a moment to bring the topic out front and try to drill a little deeper. I’m going to discuss color mode today. Next week, I’ll hit scanning/coloring and image resolution.
First, we’ll start with the age-old conundrum of CMYK vs RGB.
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Last year, I launched a couple of Christmas cards and the response was so overwhelming, I vowed to start earlier next year so I could take advantage of this opportunity better.
Aaaaaaand it’s already late-October, so this post is as much for me as it is for you. People tend to purchase their Christmas cards in late-November, so if you want to maximize your sales, you’d better get into the spirit now.
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I think sometime around 2003, the Mayor of the Internet passed a mandate that declared that every new webcomic had to begin with the characters speaking directly to the reader, explaining that they were cartoon characters and the reader was reading a comic.
So, having seen it done so often, I might be a little harsh on the concept of breaking the fourth wall. I think it should be done as seldom as possible.
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As we near our one-year anniversary in January, I wanted to take a moment to mention a few things about your Webcomics.com subscription.
First of all, THANK YOU. This has been a phenomenal experiment — and a wildly successful one. And a huge part of that success is due to you for your investment, your participation, and your promotion. I’m eagerly looking forward to making this bigger and better in 2011.
Next: A question I’ve gotten from time to time that needs to be cleared up. Your subscription is for twelve months — not the calendar year. So, if you signed up in July, your subscription will be live until next July.
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