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…
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Q: I started reading webcomics about 5 months ago with ink outbreak.com, and have been keeping up to date with them since. As I am switching my idea of making a printed comic to now making a comic that I would post online I wanted to ask, What do you think of websites like inkoutbreak.com? Do you think they are a good stepping stone for getting people into webcomics? I only found them through a friends link on Facebook, and before that I only really read comics on imgur or 9gag type sites. I would say my concern as an artist is telling someone to go to someone else’s site to view my site. What’s your thoughts?
I read about 30 webcomics, and have now started backing projects and buying webcomic “merch”. I also ended up backing the indiegogo for inkoutbreak but was a bit thrown back that there were no reader rewards that were any good. I guess the site is its own reward? Do you think its better or worse that people read so many webcomics?
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This is a great time to start thinking about offering Christmas cards to your readers.
Start brainstorming ideas now for a few holiday ideas, polish them up and work on the art. There are a number of online printers (see the link above) who have done great jobs printing high-quality cards. You’ll also want to plan for shipping, so check out Uline for packaging options.
Given the recent retail trend towards offering Christmas merchandise in October, your competition is going to be on the shelves in a couple weeks (if not already). Get yours out on your Web site soon!
Here’s the second installment of this year’s Hitch It / Ditch It critiques.
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Since switching to Comic Easel, I’ve become a big fan of character tags. Using character tags, I can give readers more information about the characters that appear in a specific update. You can see it in action below.
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A while back, I posted a piece by member Christ Hart, who shared his process for creating halftones for his comic. Halftones are greys that are created by small, solid black dots (or sometimes lines or other shapes). A halftone closely replicates the type of gray that was achieved by using Zip-a-tone.
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24-hour Comics Day is the first Saturday in October (this year, Oct. 5). As I originally posted a couple of years ago, I’m not a fan. From the original post:
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Here’s the first of the new round of Hitch It / Ditch It critiques. The rules are simple. For each comic, I point out one thing that I think is strong and one thing that I think needs to be improved. As always, this isn’t the final word. Rather, it’s the starting point for a larger discussion that starts with you in the comments below.
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If it’s not someone lamenting that his Kickstarter failed to achieve funding (while others seem to magically skyrocket), it’s a longform-comics creator insisting that it’s harder to do longform on the Web than it is to do other kinds of Web entertainment. Or a creator insisting that they couldn’t possibly devote the required time to social media. Excuses abound.
I want to take a few minutes and discuss this in a meaningful way because I strongly believe that this kind of thinking is dangerous. There’s no magic to Kickstarter or to longform comics or to social media (or to anything else, for that matter). If you fulfil the requirements (and if your work is good), you will succeed.
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I’ll be offering the Webcomics Handbook to the public this week.
Members of this site will get the $14.99 digital edition at half price. To get your discount code, please give me your name and e-mail address in the comments below.
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