Join Kris Straub, Scott Kurtz and Brad Guigar in a live presentation of their popular Webcomics Weekly podcast. This one went extra innings, so it’s in two parts.
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As iPhone apps (and similar software for Blackberrys and Android phones) become more popular, it’s only logical that we’re going to see more and more of them that try to use our content to make money for a developer.
If you find that your comic is being aggregated into a third-party developer’s app without your approval, here are three ways to address the problem quickly and effectively.
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Update: The America’s Next Great Cartoonist site has posted a FAQ that promises that participating cartoonist’s rights will remain with the original creator and that the Post will only use…
“…images and words on washingtonpost.com, in our print products (e.g., The Washington Post and Express), in our mobile products, and in promotional materials related to the contest. We will not use your entry cartoons in any other way without your advance permission.”
However: To the best of my ability to ascertain, the legal terminology in their terms and conditions remains unchanged (and has a timestamp of MAY 7, 2010 3:52 PM).
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If you’re like me, you feel completely awkward when it comes to adding color to your comic. After all, finding two hues that harmonize is difficult. But harmonizing enough colors to make a pleasing scene? That’s a color-theory challenge that has eluded me for almost a decade. It doesn’t help to read about the old-time animation colorists who point out that sometimes they’d use purple for a tree trunk because it made the scene better.
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AOL Small Business interviewed Chris Onstad, Matthew Inman and me for a story about how webcartoonists are making a living.
“We cartoonists are pretty pragmatic creatures,” says Brad Guigar, proprietor of Webcomics.com (www.webcomics.com), a professional membership organization, and creator of several online comics, including Evil Inc. (www.evil-comic.com/). “When the syndication/publishing route failed to yield a significant profit, many of us turned to self publishing on the Web and found out we could use the developing technology to replace the old print-based delivery systems. Heck, many of us found we could do better financially [self-publishing] than by trying to move through syndication publishing channels.”
I want to make sure I note this here in case anyone missed it.
Thanks to the ultra-industrious Diana Stoneman, we have a workaround for this. Read this post and follow the directions. And then drop by Diana’s site to extend your fondest regards for her excellent contribution to the site.
I’m still lobbying Squarespace to add this functionality to an upcoming upgrade, but in the meantime, this is an awesome workaround.
Perhaps you have and oversized piece of art that you have to scan in two pieces. Or maybe your scanner isn’t large enough for your originals.
Either way, you’re faced with scanning your image in two pieces and pairing them up digitally.
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Get out your calendar and start circling dates. It’s time to do a little webcomics planning.
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From the Legalzoom* newsletter:
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ECONTALK, an interesting podcast about economics, recently featured a fascinating discussion that relates directly to the business of webcomics. Listen closely for a thought-provoking anecdote about when the Red Cross started charging for coffee and donuts in WWII.
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