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Today’s Archive Dive comes from Feb. 16, 2010, when we discussed the aesthetics of word balloons.
Word balloons are so common — so freely accepted as a part of a cartoonist’s visual syntax — that many of us haven’t given the subject a whole lot of thought. Looking back at my own work, I know I didn’t for the first several years. Choosing last Friday’s Archive Dive made me remember a post I’ve been wanting to do for a long time: Word Ballon Aesthetic. If you haven’t read the Archive Dive, take a second and look it over. It provides some good structure for today’s discussion.
And, as is the case with any discussion of aesthetics, these are not meant to be taken as written-in-stone dictates. But the philosophy behind the aesthetics should help inform your own process in developing your own personal style.
It’s time to look at word balloons again for the first time.
Passed along by Howard Tayler, this insightful Veritasium video describes — in an entertaining and easy-to-understand manner — how buying ads (and paying to promote links) on Facebook actually might harm the outreach potential of your Facebook fan page.
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This post was kindly submitted by John Bogenschutz.
Way back when, Brad Guigar bragged about Dave Kellett’s books and how great they looked sitting on the shelf because they all had a stripe at the same height and size running across the top of the books. Since I didn’t have any books out yet I thought about how I could maximize that effect. So four years ago on my first book I put a T at the bottom of my book spine.
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Sales tax is a state-mandated tax on physical goods and products. Sales-tax guidelines vary from state to state, and, therefore, it’s really difficult to keep track of for webcartoonists who (a) sell merchandize on the Web and/or (b) travel to other states to do business at comic conventions.
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Q: Here’s an age old question for webcomic artists. Someone emails you and says:
“I’m starting a new blog. I love your comic and I’d like to post one of the comics from your site to my blog each week. I’ll be sure to link back to you.”
What do you say to this?
The funny thing is that if this person wasn’t being polite and asking, you probably wouldn’t have even known it was happening!
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