Composition Hot Seat: Pomophobia
Same rules as the other Hot Seat Critiques. I’ll start the discussion and open it up to the membership at large.
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Same rules as the other Hot Seat Critiques. I’ll start the discussion and open it up to the membership at large.
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I want to share a Creativity Exercise from a recent TED talk. Tim Brown spoke about it in his talk on creativity and play. The exercise came from Bob McKim, a Stanford University professor who researched creativity.
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The gang gets dragged out of retirement to discuss what happens when you want to move on from your work, and what kinds of decisions — good and bad — it can lead to. One very specific, recent example is discussed. A lot. Okay I’m just gonna say it…
The gang gets dragged out of retirement to discuss Tim Buckley and his ending of CAD.
Listen to the podcast, and the come back to join the dicsussion in the Private Forum already in progress.
When I asked about potential Hot Seat topics earier this year, one of the repeated requests was to focus on composition. Depending on the comic, we could be talking about page composition or panel composition. And I’m going to throw word-balloon use and backgrounds in there for good measure.
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Same rules as usual. I’ll leave the Open Call up for 24 hours, and then close it. I’ll review the participants and post them here and open the topic up for wider discussion.
Creative Bloq posted a very well-written introduction to color theory — in plain talk for people, like me, who could never quite grasp it.
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As hard as it may be to believe, we’re staring down the barrel of another holiday season. If you’re shipping holiday-themed merchandise such as greeting cards or calendars, you’re going to need to be aware of some shipping deadlines so your items can arrive in time. And even if you’re simply shipping books and other standard merchandise from your store, you have to assume the liklihood that the buyer might be intending to give the item to someone else as a gift.
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As you know, the Friday after Thanksgiving officially kicks off the holiday shopping season for brick-and-mortar retailers. The following Monday, “Cyber Monday,” is the official launch for online sellers.
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When Transcontinental discontinued its offer to give Webcomics.com members a 10% discount, it gave me an opportunity to rethink that feature of the site. I think that we can use the significant numbers of our membership to give vendors a good reason to offer discounts and purchase incentives. But when it comes to judging discounts on quotes for print, it becomes really difficult to judge the value of a discount. That’s because the quote for one book can vary vastly from printer to printer — and sometimes within the same company. Books are quoted based on paper size (and the availability of the size required), space on the press, press volume, assembly needs, etc. It’s actually possible to get two vastly different quotes from the same print company by talking to two different representatives — especially if that company has multiple printing plants.
So what’s the best way to use Webcomics.com to give members an edge when it comes to printing books?
I’ve decided the bast way is to open up competitive bidding. When you enter a quote, it will be forwarded to participating print vendors. They know that a quote from a Webcomics.com member means they are competing with several other vendors — and that means that is they want the job, they need to price their quote as low as possible.
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