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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Hitch It/Ditch It: Flight of the Binturong, Seeking Shelter, Ed’s R Us

If you’re new to the Hitch It / Ditch It critiques, the rule are simple. I go to your site, and I identify something that I think you’re doing well. Then I mention something that I think could be improved. Then, the membership jumps in with their own thoughts. If you’d like to have your work addressed by a critique, it is expected that you participate in the critiques of the work of others.
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by on January 23, 2014
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The New Age of Monetizing the Web

It really wasn’t that long ago that I decided to convert this Web site to a subscription-based resource. The reaction was fierce. There were threats. There were recriminations. There were insults (galore). And there were countless predictions of the imminent failure of Webcomics.com.

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by on January 22, 2014
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Line-item defaults in Google DFP

If you, like me, find yourself setting up several line items in Google DFP, you’re probably a little tired of setting up the same settings over and over again. After all, most of your line items probably share the same properties — especially all of your house ads. Here’s a great tip on creating default settings for line items. The next time you set up a line item, these pre-selected settings will be automatically selected. Of course, these settings can be changed after you create the line item.

To set line item defaults:
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by on January 22, 2014
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NCS Divisional Awards – Call for Entries

Reuben Awards

DEADLINE: Feb. 15

The National Cartoonists Society is starting it’s annual call for entries for consideration for their NCS Divisional Awards recognizing excellence in professional cartooning. As always, you DO NOT have to be a member of the NCS to have your work considered for a divisional award… all that is required is that the work be eligible as detailed below.

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by on January 21, 2014
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“Like”wise, I’m sure…

Earlier this week, I asked a question: “How do you — as a user, not as a creator — feel about being invited to Like someone’s Page on Facebook?” The answers to my unscientific poll were split practically down the middle, with the majority (“No”) edging out in the end.

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by on January 20, 2014
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Mailbag: Free Web hosting

Q: Of the places you mention in your book Webcomics Handbook, which is the best place to be hosted and would it be bad to post a comic on all 5 places?

(WordPress.com, Comicfury.com, Smackjeeves.com, Comicgenesis.com, Drunkduck.com)

I apologize if this is a stupid question, but I’m really lost and am spinning my wheels on the issue of Free Hosting and where it should be or should I strike out on my own someplace somehow.  Although I’m not good with computers so Free Hosting is pretty much my only choice.

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by on January 15, 2014
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Don’t listen to each reader; listen to them all

In the Private Forum, a member asked the following:

If you’ve been following a webcomic and you don’t like the direction it is taking and eventually it gets to the point where you’re not enjoying it and decide to stop reading it, as a good fan should you politely just forget the comic exists or should you tell the creator why you have decided to stop following his/her’s work?

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by on January 14, 2014
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Like yourself

I remember a comedian doing a bit on people who “like” their own posts on Facebook. He said it was the equivalent of that guy at a party who ended every one of his stories by saying, “isn’t that the best thing you ever heard?”

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by on January 13, 2014
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