COmicLab Ep 360 — New ways to make an old mistake

COmicLab Ep 360 — New ways to make an old mistake

After years of listening to Brad and Dave extoll the virtues of self-publishing, a ComicLab listener signed with a corporate...
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Content exchange: Cross-promotion made simple

Content exchange: Cross-promotion made simple

With social media on a steep decline, many of us are scrambling to find ways to replace its benefits. One...
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Incorporating an oddly shaped panel into a vertical-scroll comic

Incorporating an oddly shaped panel into a vertical-scroll comic

Building an audience on the web means adapting to the vertical scroll. But that doesn't mean giving up innovative page...
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Webcomics Confidential: Draw larger

Webcomics Confidential: Draw larger

I took a question on Twitter recently: "Would it be wrong to draw my comics on A4 paper? I find...
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November To-Do List

November To-Do List

It's time to get started on (*choke*) the penultimate month of 2024.If you plan to offer new merchandise for the...
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ComicLab Ep 359 — Should your readers be your writers?

ComicLab Ep 359 — Should your readers be your writers?

BlueSky is beginning to feel like Twitter did ten years ago! Engagement is up, conversations are genuine, and follower counts...
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Understanding social media

Understanding social media

Social media is among an independent artist's most frustrating elements. We struggle for engagement, wage constant battles with "The Algorithm,"...
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Writing humor

Writing humor

Writing comedy is a challenge that is made even more daunting by the fact that humor itself is completely subjective...
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CMYK vs RGB

CMYK vs RGB

If you're saving your comics in RGB mode, you may be making a potentially expensive mistake. The content you are...
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ComicLab Ep 358 — “Help! I’m not funny anymore!”

ComicLab Ep 358 — “Help! I’m not funny anymore!”

Cartoonists Dave and Brad share some thoughts with a young humor writer trying to find their Funny. Also: Is BlueSky...
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Rethinking Zuda…

Republished from the PVP blog. For the original post, go here:

As you know, I’ve been critical of Zuda Comics in the past. I’ve never liked the idea of a large company like DC treating new talent like American Idol contestants but that seems to be a new direction the industry is heading. Not something I want to get behind. Not something I would ever do myself.

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by on October 14, 2009
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Scott Kurtz Emcees the Harveys

For those of you who couldn’t attend Baltimore Comic Con this year, here are some highlights from Scott Kurtz’ emcee duties. He opened with two announcements:

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by on October 13, 2009
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Understanding the ‘Powers of Ten’ and How it Applies to Your Site

Passed along by Christian Hill, Professor of Sequential Art & Illustration at Cal State / Fullerton

Webcartoonists spend a lot of time thinking about the Fourth Wall, but not much time is spent understanding the Fourth Dimension — time — and how it applies to a Web site. This is an intersting discussion of that topic that goes from 0.1 second to ten years — and how those timeframes apply to your site. For example:

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by on October 12, 2009
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Indy Comic Book Week: Dec. 30

Diamond Comics Distributors isn’t shipping any new books the week of Dec 30th — which means that comic shops will have no new offerings that week.

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by on October 7, 2009
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Mailbag: Site Censorship?

Q: My webcomic is relatively new (two weeks in). It’s not getting too much traffic yet (understandably). I decided to turn on comments for my comic to encourage feedback, but some of the comments are seemingly negative critiques of my art style/ability. Now, I’m not afraid of criticism, but I’m not sure I want those sort of comments on my site. I would have hoped comments would revolve around the actual content of the comic — whether positive or negative.

So what should I do?

— Adam

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by on October 6, 2009
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October To-Do List

Today is the first day of October. 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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by on October 1, 2009
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Creating Cartoon Vector Art with CORELDraw

This post was kindly submitted by David Wilborn.

I’ll be walking through creating vector art using the CorelDRAW set of tools. I am using CorelDRAW 11, but the principals apply to other versions of Corel as well as other scanning and vector software.

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by on September 24, 2009
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