Content exchange: Cross-promotion made simple

Content exchange: Cross-promotion made simple

With social media on a steep decline, many of us are scrambling to find ways to replace its benefits. One...
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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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Webcomics Confidential: Draw larger

Webcomics Confidential: Draw larger

I took a question on Twitter recently: "Would it be wrong to draw my comics on A4 paper? I find...
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November To-Do List

November To-Do List

It's time to get started on (*choke*) the penultimate month of 2024.If you plan to offer new merchandise for the...
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ComicLab Ep 359 — Should your readers be your writers?

ComicLab Ep 359 — Should your readers be your writers?

BlueSky is beginning to feel like Twitter did ten years ago! Engagement is up, conversations are genuine, and follower counts...
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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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Writing humor

Writing humor

Writing comedy is a challenge that is made even more daunting by the fact that humor itself is completely subjective...
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CMYK vs RGB

CMYK vs RGB

If you're saving your comics in RGB mode, you may be making a potentially expensive mistake. The content you are...
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ComicLab Ep 358 — “Help! I’m not funny anymore!”

ComicLab Ep 358 — “Help! I’m not funny anymore!”

Cartoonists Dave and Brad share some thoughts with a young humor writer trying to find their Funny. Also: Is BlueSky...
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ISBN — a beginner’s guide

ISBN — a beginner’s guide

An ISBN is a 10- or 13-digit number used to identify a book from a specific publisher. Once your book...
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Hot Seat critique

Lettering Hot Seat: Blooming Faeries and A La Mode

The Hot Seat critique series is a unique opportunity to talk about the craft of cartooning — in real-life, meaningful terms. In this year’s final installment, we’re going to discuss the approaches of two participants’ work. Click each image for a larger view.

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by on April 21, 2014
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Archive Dive

Archive Dive: Advertising Networks

Many of you are already familiar with Project Wonderful, but it isn’t the only way to get paid for ads running on your site. There are a number of companies that serve ads to participating Web sites. These companies generally pay on a CPM or CPC basis – meaning you get paid on a per-impression or per-click basis (respectively). Here’s a quick overview of some (and by no means all) of your options.

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by on April 18, 2014
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Q2 Slump

If you’re like me, you’re looking at your ad revenue for this month and scratching your head.

Although you can chalk up the April ad slump to companies finalizing their budgets in the second quarter, it’s no help for the lost revenue.

So here’s five six tips for jumpstarting your own personal economy

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by on April 17, 2014
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WordPress error: “No Update Required”

The latest WordPress update kicked off an error for me that I’ve had to get to the bottom of. If this has happened to you (or if a future update causes it), I wanted to list the fix here for your reference.

Here’s the error: When you try to access your dashboard, you see a WordPress message that says, ”

Fix WordPress upgrade error: No Update Required -Your WordPress database is already up-to-date!

There’s only one option: Continue. But when you click that, you get returned to your Web site. It’s impossible to access your dashboard.

Now what?

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by on April 15, 2014
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Filing for an extention

Federal income taxes must be postmarked by tomorrow (April 15). State and city taxes are also due then — as well as estimated taxes for the first quarter of 2014.The content you are trying to access is only available to members.

by on April 14, 2014
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Archive Dive

Friday Archive Dive: How many Pageviews = Success?

Today’s Archive Dive brings us back to a perennial question in the world of webcomics: At what level of pageviews can I expect Success to happen?

Q: I’m sure this is a bigger question than I think it is, but I started my webcomic in January and I think I’m doing okay with pageviews (I only update twice a week) but is there an easy number to point to to say, “At this point, you are successful?”  Another Webcomic friend of mine said (he heard) that at 1000 pageviews a day, you can quite your day job.  I’m thinking this isn’t true, since that’s about where I’m at now.  And no money, not that I’ve tried yet.

A. Whoever said that you can quit your day job at 1,000 pageviews a day is bat-shit insane.

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by on April 11, 2014
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Heartbleed

News is spreading fast about the Heartbleed bug — and it’s not good. Member Rich Clabaugh gave us the early warning: The Heartbleed bug causes a vulnerability in the OpenSSL cryptographic library, which is used by roughly two-thirds of all Web sites on the Internet. Here’s what you need to know to protect yourself now.

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by on April 10, 2014
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