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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ComicLab Ep 277 — Special guest Karl Kerschl (“The Abominable Charles Christopher”)

We’re talking comics with our special guest Karl Kerschl, who talks about working in both corporate and independent comics, and prepping the Kickstarter campaign for “Death Transit Tanager.”

ON THIS WEEK’S SHOW…

  • Working in both corporate and  independent comics
  • Prepping a Kickstarter
  • Shipping from Canada
  • Launching a Kickstarter on Patreon vs Kickstarter pre-launch notifications
  • Social-media strategy for Kickstarter
  • Juggling multiple projects
  • Pitching a comic to Images Comics
  • Collaborating with another artist on a project
by on April 6, 2023
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April To-Do List

Get out your calendar and start circling dates. It’s time to do a little webcomics planning.

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by on April 4, 2023
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Should you create your own font?

Several software packages and websites offer to enable you to create your own font based on your hand lettering. And it’s so simple! You just draw the individual letters in little boxes, upload them and — whammo! — you have a digital font based on your unique lettering. Sounds great, right?

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by on March 28, 2023
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Writing ‘beat to beat’

It can be difficult to write a longform story. How much do you need to write before you can start drawing? How do you keep a story moving without getting bogged down in details? Can you write week-to-week without falling behind? Let’s talk about one way that you can plan your story ahead of time and continue writing as you’re producing pages.

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by on March 24, 2023
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ComicLab Ep 275 — Special guest Caitlin McGurk (The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum)

This week, we’re talking comics with Caitlin McGurk! She’s the curator of comics and cartoon art at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum, and she’s got some terrific stories about her work there.

ON THIS WEEK’S SHOW…

  • The Marvel Method of Comics was bonkers!
  • UPDATE: “The Mysteries” – Bill Watterson and John Kascht
  • UPDATE: 50 minutes of book-printing advice in ProTips #270
  • UPDATE: Twitter’s 2Fa isn’t was bad as you’re being told
  • UPDATE: Reddit’s IPO
  • UPDATE: New YouTube CEO is pro NFT
  • Caitlin McGurk, The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum. 

Brad Guigar is the creator of Evil Inc and the author of The Webcomics Handbook. Dave Kellett is the creator of Sheldon and Drive.

by on March 23, 2023
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