Webcomics Handbook

Webcomics Handbook

Your ready reference for all things webcomics. Launched as a follow-up to the seminal “How To Make Webcomics,” Brad Guigar’s...
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“How do I get more readers?”

“How do I get more readers?”

Today we're going to talk about a sentence that every last one of us have uttered: I really feel like...
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ComicLab Ep 345 — How to get subscribers on Substack

ComicLab Ep 345 — How to get subscribers on Substack

Dave and Brad share proven strategies for building your audience on Substack. Also: What are the best approaches for dummy...
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Livestream Chat: Doing a quiet voice in comics lettering

Livestream Chat: Doing a quiet voice in comics lettering

How do you represent someone whispering in a comic? If you choose to make the lettering itself smaller, you're sacrificing...
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Future expected value

Future expected value

What can Netflix teach you about administering your Patreon rewards? Plenty. The content you are trying to access is only...
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Webcomics Confidential: Unnecessary Tangents

Webcomics Confidential: Unnecessary Tangents

Unnecessary tangents in an illustration can be distracting — and kill the composition in an otherwise great drawing. While sketching...
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ComicLab Ep 344 — When to throw in the towel

ComicLab Ep 344 — When to throw in the towel

Have you ever wanted to just quit? When all seems lost... when you're all out of hope... when you're about...
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How to do a reader survey

How to do a reader survey

Reader surveys are an excellent way to get a better feel for your audience. Does your comic skew toward female...
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Webcomics Confidential: Finding your motivation

Webcomics Confidential: Finding your motivation

I can't tell you how to get motivated. Neither can anyone else. (Chances are... if someone tells you they can,...
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ComicLab Ep 343 — How to Raise Your Rates on Patreon

ComicLab Ep 343 — How to Raise Your Rates on Patreon

Dave and Brad each realize they must raise their rates on their individual Patreon campaigns. This results in a surprising...
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Rethink the landing page

Rethink the landing page

Many of us recognize that readership on the Web has shifted. Our audience spends most of their online time on...
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Tutorial: Vertical-scroll eComics

Tutorial: Vertical-scroll eComics

Previously, I posted about the importance of adopting the vertical-scroll format for your website and social media. That can be...
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Getting Bored

 

(Comic courtesy of Dave Kellett)

Many of us started our webcomics as a hobby — more for fun than anything else. The problem is that under the pressures of updating, keeping fans happy, etc., the comic goes from a fun hobby to being just another chore. To combat this feeling, here are a few tips that I have found work well.

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by on February 5, 2009
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If We Can Make It There…


The first big comic convention of the year, New York Comic Con, kicks off this Friday with opportunities to say hi to two of the Halfpixel / Webcomics Weekly crew.
Brad Guigar will be in the Small Press area — booth number 2442 — exhibiting under the Evil Inc flag. And Scott Kurtz will be making a rare East Coast appearance as he hangs out at the Penny Arcade table.

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by on February 3, 2009
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February To-Do List

Get out your calendar and start circling dates. It’s time to do a little webcomics planning.

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by on February 2, 2009
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Charity Begins At Home(page)

Accepting donations on your site is a fairly well-accepted practice for most cartoonists. But if you’re going to ask for money, many people argue, why not offer something in return? It stands to reason that this is not only polite, but it would increase the total number of donations. Offering a downloadable desktop wallpaper is an awesome way to encourage donations. The wallpaper itself is merely a JPEG that users will download and install on their computers. Plus, it’s a nice bit of promotion for your site. Luckily, PayPal makes this extremely easy.

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by on January 30, 2009
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… But What About Long-Form Comics?

 

Evidently, it’s all in the translation. As part of the comments to an earlier post about the webcomics-related panels at New York Comic Con, Scott wrote:

I know that so far the most successful webcomics have been the gag-a-day strips, but I wish there could be more representation for long-form comics stories. The new Diamond rules are going to drive many long-form creators to the web, and I think we could all benefit from some discussion specific to our situation.

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by on January 28, 2009
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Take a picture

Here’s some advice that I got from Bill Barnes through Dave Kellett.

When you’re exhibiting at a comic convention, don’t pass up an excellent opportunity for community building: Bring your camera. Photos of your convention appearance make for nice bonus content for your readers, but more importantly, you should be taking photos of people who bought your merchandise standing proudly with their newly gotten gains

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by on January 27, 2009
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Webcomics panels at New York Comic Con


New York Comic Con is just around the corner — February 6-8. Here’s your guide to all of the webcomics-related panels and a few that might be of special interest:

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by on January 26, 2009
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