Hitch It / Ditch It: Bridgette’s Belly, A La Mode, Decrypting Rita
Here’s the second installment of this year’s Hitch It / Ditch It critiques.
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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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You know the rules, I go to your site and identify one thing you’re doing great and one thing you need to work to improve. If you want to participate, put your name, comic and URL in the Comments below.
For those of you making estimated tax payments, the next due date is Monday, September 16.
One more lesson learned from my first Kickstarter.
Once The Webcomics Handbook was finished, I was faced with the perplexing problem of how to deliver 1,016 different download codes to the same number of backers. Sending individual e-mails was out of the question. Using Dropbox was an option, but since I was going to begin selling this book digitally, I wanted to keep everything in one place. I was also concerned about the ability to distribute updates to the book as the need arose.
So I chose Gumroad. They kindly agreed to create 1,016 download codes for me, but I still had to figure out how to get those e-mailed to all of my backers.
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