Longform Webcomics Publishing Strategies

Longform Webcomics Publishing Strategies

Publishing a longform comic online can feel like building a bridge while people are already walking across it. Every week,...
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What the Kickstarter Referrals Reveal

What the Kickstarter Referrals Reveal

Every Kickstarter tells a story — not just about the book itself, but about the paths people take to discover...
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Incorporating an oddly shaped panel into a vertical-scroll comic

Incorporating an oddly shaped panel into a vertical-scroll comic

Building an audience on the web means adapting to the vertical scroll. But that doesn't mean giving up innovative page...
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ComicLab Ep 412 — Kickstarter: What’s Working and What’s Not

ComicLab Ep 412 — Kickstarter: What’s Working and What’s Not

This week, we're sharing the real numbers from Brad Guigar's recent Kickstarter. The show is brought to you by Hogan's...
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Webcomics Confidential: Draw Larger

Webcomics Confidential: Draw Larger

I was asked recently: "Would it be wrong to draw my comics on A4 paper? I find it hard to...
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What to do with that 24-Hour Comics Day Comic

What to do with that 24-Hour Comics Day Comic

Q.: So I made a 24 hour comic. It’s amazing, but it’s “only” 24 pages. Now, comic dads of the...
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November To-Do List

November To-Do List

It's time to get started on (*choke*) the penultimate month of 2025.If you plan to offer new merchandise for the...
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Affinity Goes All-In — and All-Free

Affinity Goes All-In — and All-Free

For years, Affinity has been the go-to alternative to Adobe for cartoonists, illustrators, and designers who wanted pro-level tools without...
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ComicLab Ep 411 — Special Guest Cathy Guisewite

ComicLab Ep 411 — Special Guest Cathy Guisewite

In this engaging conversation, Cathy Guisewite, the creator of the iconic syndicated comic strip 'Cathy', shares her journey through the...
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Understanding social media

Understanding social media

Social media is among an independent artist's most frustrating elements. We struggle for engagement, wage constant battles with "The Algorithm,"...
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Reddit vs the Top-XX Sites

I’ve posted before how much I dislike those sites that ask you to link to them under the auspices of counting votes that move your banner ad towards the top of some sort of list. I call them “Top-XX List” sites because thy’re all based on the banner ads displayed for a certain number of participants at the top of the list — Top 10, Top 20, Top 100, etc.

As I’ve said before, this is a glorified link-exchange in my opinion. And I’ll also pose the argument that the only winners are the people running the Top-XX sites themselves (they usually run their own ads).

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by on March 23, 2010
Posted In: Business, Tech
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How to fart butterflies

Yesterday, in the Private Forum, a member asked, What are some tips and tricks for getting attention at a comic con? One member said: “Make sure you look like you’re having a great day even if you aren’t!”

It made me remember this wonderful moment in which a convention veteran took a moment to share some priceless advice with a newer exhibitor who was having a rough weekend.

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by on March 18, 2010
Posted In: Conventions
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Setting a Price

We spoke about this in the forum last week, but I want to get it out front in case anyone missed it.

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by on March 16, 2010
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Endicia Discount

This is not an exclusive deal for Webcomics.com subscribers, but I want to make sure you’re aware that the special deal Endicia set up for Webcomics Weekly listeners is still active.

Endicia enables you to print your own postage on your computer (Mac and PC). We talked about it extensively during this Webcomics Weekly podcast.

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by on March 15, 2010
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Webcomics Weekly: Episode 67

Join Scott, Kris, Dave and I as we talk with Jim Demonakos, show organizer for Emerald City Comic Con. We preview the premiere comic convention of the U.S. northwest, get an exclusive announcement, and fall into more ratholes than you can shake a stick at. Episode 67.

by on March 11, 2010
Posted In: Conventions
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Google Analytics: Tracking Ad Performance

As part of this continuing series on using Google Analytics to its fullest, I’d like to talk about using its tracking abilities to chart the performance of an ad that you create for your comic.

To do this, we’ll set up a landing page for the ad (as discussed here).

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by on March 11, 2010
Posted In: Business
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