Convention Dish: Alternative Press Expo (APE)
Alternative Press Expo
- October 16 & 17, 2010
- Concourse Exhibition Center
- San Francisco, California
The Dish
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Convention Dish: Katsucon
Katsucon
- 2011 dates not set
- Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center
- National Harbor, MD
- mid-size
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Mailbag: Copy/Paste Cheating?
I’m grappling with whether or not it’s “cheating” to continually borrow from my own archive to copy and paste a character’s head, a scenario, etc.
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Open call for Q&As
As we head into March, I want to be sure that I’m covering some of the topics that are important to you, so if you have a specific question, please hit the Questions link at the top of the site. After your question, please provide your name, comic title and URL. If you’d like me to withhold that information, let me know that, too.
Convention Dish: Baltimore Comic Con
Baltimore Comic Con
- Aug. 28 & 29
- Baltimore Convention Center
- Baltimore, MD
- Host of the annual Harvey Awards
- Estimated attendance: 10,000
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Collaborations – Getting off on the right foot
Creating a comic requires a blend of two very different disciplines — visual art and writing. Some people may be good artists, but they’re not so good at writing. Others may be good writers, but their art is standing in the way of their storytelling. And still others simply haven’t admitted to themselves that they fall into one of those two categories.
Which is why a collaboration is such an attractive proposition. A good writer teams with a skillful artist, and the two cooperate to make an amazing comic. When it works, Penny Arcade being a shining example, it works tremendously. But when it doesn’t work, things get dark quick.
So how do you establish a successful collaboration?
It’s the same as any relationship you might have in real life: Honesty, communication and fairness.
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The Punchword
When it comes to humor writing, writing anything that approaches instruction is a dicey proposition. When a joke is analyzed, it tends to die. At the risk of killing some funny, however, I have a few thoughts on the subject that I’d like to share.
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Convention Dish: Comic Con International
Comic Con International
- July 22-25, 2010
- San Diego Convention Center
- San Diego, CA
- Estimated attendance: 140,000
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Coming Apart at the Themes
I’ll bet just about everybody has at least one good cartoon in them.
After all, every now and then, even a blind squirrel finds an acorn.
But we’re not blind squirrels, are we? We’re cartoonists.
And that means we have to be nuts on a regular basis.
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