March To-Do List
Get out your calendar and start circling dates. It’s time to do a little webcomics planning.The content you are trying to access is only available to members.
Get out your calendar and start circling dates. It’s time to do a little webcomics planning.The content you are trying to access is only available to members.
Today’s Archive Dive comes from Feb. 11, 2013, when we discussed the DBA.
A DBA is an important part of establish your business as a standalone entity. The acronym stands for “Doing Business As,” and it is a legal document that says, “When you see XYZ on a form, that’s really John Doe doing business under that business’ name.”
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No one loves Dropbox more than I do. It’s completely changed the way I do … well, everything.
Same goes for WordPress.
Anything that brings the two of them together? Pure heaven.
And that’s why I love a new plug-in called WordPress Backup to DropBox.The content you are trying to access is only available to members.
It’s something we, as professional artists, are often called upon to do: Name a price for our work. And, for many of us, it’s one of the most daunting challenges we face.
When I was teaching my weekly class at Hussian School of Art in Philadelphia, I asked my class, “What’s the worst thing you can hear from a prospective client after you’ve quoted them a price?”
“‘That’s too high,'” offered one student.
Incorrect, I countered. That’s actually a very good response. So what’s the worst thing you can hear?
“Yes.”
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Longtime readers may remember my endorsing a Web app called 14Blocks for scheduling social-media messages to hit when its data predicted the greatest probability of the largest number recipients. Unfortunately, they updated their offering, and, in so doing, disabled most of the features I liked best about the software.
Now Klout (which we first discussed in Oct. 2011) is expanding its social-media analytics functionality to pick up where 14Blocks dropped the ball.
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Since we’ve finished up the Hitch It / Ditch It Hot Seat, it’s time to launch the next Hot Seat critique series. This one is called the “On The Spot” Hot Seat.The content you are trying to access is only available to members.
Wanna get warmed up for another week of cartooning? Then join us for a Motivational Sketch. This week’s phrase is “freaking out.”The content you are trying to access is only available to members.
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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Wanna get warmed up for another week of cartooning? Then join us for a Motivational Sketch. This week’s phrase is “sour attitude.”
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