It’s time to get started on (*choke*) the penultimate month of 2023.
If you are planning to offer new merchandise for the holiday-shopping season, get moving now.
In an earlier post, I talked about incorporating a circular panel into a page design intended to work well on a printed page — without having a negative impact on the vertical-scroll version of the webcomic. Here’s a step-by-step guide on doing exactly that.
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Many of us are looking for a magic hashtag or “One Weird Trick” to game SEO and drive readers to our work. But I’d like to share a moment of Tough Love when a mentor told me: “You have the audience you deserve.” Once I stopped looking for shortcuts and focused on the quality of my work, my audience began to grow.
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The Gannett newspaper chain, which includes USA Today and about 200 other daily newspapers, has selected 34 syndicated comics. Each of its newspapers will be limited to running comics from that list. Any comic that didn’t make the list has been shut out of roughly 20% of the existing market. Not surprisingly, most of the 34 are legacy comics whose original creators are long since deceased. This is the end of syndicated comics.
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Social media is among the most frustrating elements of an independent artist’s life. We struggle for engagement, we wage constant battles with “The Algorithm,” we scramble for every last clue to success… and we lose. Time and again, we lose. It’s a little overdue to take a closer look at what’s really happening here.
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In a recent ComicLab episode (Everything Old is New Again), we talked about the resurgence of email newsletters. Here’s how to get more people to sign up for yours!
The content you are trying to access is only available to members.A person who was starting to do comics asked a question in a forum for creators: “How long does it take you to do one four-panel strip?” They got a wide range of answers — each one of them as unhelpful as the next. They had asked the wrong question, and their creativity would suffer as a result.
The content you are trying to access is only available to members.We’re thrilled to welcome Jamar Nicholas, creator of Leon The Extraordinary, to talk shop with us!
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An ISBN is a 10- or 13-digit number that is used to identify a book from a specific publisher. Once your book is in print, you can register the title and link it to the ISBN here.
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I was directed to a video essay that claimed the recent Patreon update signified the fall of the crowdfunding giant. To paraphrase Mark Twain, the news of Patreon’s downfall has been greatly exaggerated.
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