Two Keys for Writing Drama
The first key to writing drama is building and releasing tension. It’s what creates the Three Act story setup.
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Webcomics Weekend!
Webcomics Weekend, in Easthampton, Mass., is this weekend.
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Webcomics Weekly Episode 56: Look Back In Horror
Scott, Brad and Dave take a trip down Memory Lane and discuss the paths that brought them to where they are. The upcoming Webcomics Weekend is discussed, along with Emerald City Comic Con in April.
Has the political cartoon died?
As newspapers stagger into oblivion, it seems as if they may take along with them a crucial part of American pop culture and civic discourse — the political cartoon. Think about it, of all of the comics-related work that has found new life on the Web — strips, books, panels, infinite-canvas work, etc. — political cartooning has been absent from the renaissance.
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(Drawing) table manners
As cartoonists (or webcartoonists, or webcomickers or whatever you like) we tend to spend a lot of time sitting still. And whether you work at a drawing table or a desktop (or both) chances are you’ll get hungry. Unfortunately, we artists very limited in what we can eat while working – greasy hands means sumdges and dirty materials. To help with the problem, here’s a list of artist-friendly foods you can snack on while scrambling to meet that deadline. Just take it with a grain of salt…
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Webcomics Weekend
Webcomics Weekend, in Easthampton, Mass., is being announced for March 20-22. It’s going to be a tremendous meet-up of some of the very best in webcomics.
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Comic book typography
Blambot’s Nate Piekos has written a spectacularly helpful piece on comic typography that should be required reading for all webcartoonists — particularly the section on one of the most prevalent errors, the crossbar “I”.
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Money, Money, Money…
You’ve gone to a few cons, you’re running ads and you’re selling merchandise — all of which is generating money for you. Congratulations! You’re starting to succeed. But you could go so much further. And now that you have some cash, you can do what you couldn’t do before. So what should you do with these earnings? Well, here are a few things to consider.
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Webcomics Weekly Episode 55: Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
Brad and Scott recap the NYCC. A discussion about product presentation at cons quickly devolves into a paranoid examination of how dolls can come to life and kill you in your sleep.












