Now, more than ever, it’s important for artists to understand that they’re running a small business.
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Cartoonists Dave Kellett and Brad Guigar discuss how websites and email newsletters have made a remarkable comeback in the past few years — and how you should be using them to publish now. Also: What is a squircle, and why is it the best word balloon?!
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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 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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Recently Tumblr added some features that had many people convinced that they were reversing their ill-fated decision to remove NSFW content. However, there’s a lot more to the story.
The content you are trying to access is only available to members.The cartoonist uncles have a disagreement! Dave Kellett hates flashbacks, and Brad Guigar can’t get enough! They’ll talk about the right way to handle a flashback in your comic, when you should use one — and whether you shouldn’t reconsider the whole approach in the first place!
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Brad Guigar is the creator of Evil Inc and the author of The Webcomics Handbook. Dave Kellett is the creator of Sheldon and Drive.
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This is a time when creativity seems to be at an all-time high everywhere you look. From carved pumpkins to costumes to haunted houses to the really scary stuff like, well…
Being lonely in a large city has a listener feeling a little Ziggy — and cartoonists Dave Kellett and Brad Guigar have some advice.
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Q.: I have a CSP question that I haven’t been able to get an answer from the Googles. With 3D models, sometimes when I drop a hand pose onto a hand it’ll do one hand, but usually it changes both. I haven’t been able to figure out why or how to control when it does one hand vs. both?
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