Leave it to Tavis Maiden to come up with an ingenious way to use QR codes.
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Today’s Archive Dive dates back to Aug. 28, 2012, when I discussed hand-lettering.
If you remember this post, you know that my approach to lettering has slowly evolved over the twelve years of my creating a daily strip. I originally did the completely backwards approach of inking the balloon first and fitting the test into the space (Photoshopping when my guess was completely off). Then I started inking full panels, leaving space for word balloons, but adding both the lettering and the balloons digitally after the art was inked.
And, to be honest, I was quite content with that process until I flew to Los Angeles to prep for Comic Con this year. I was staying the night with Dave Kellett and he was trying to get a handful of strips done before leaving for the convention. I was eager to try drawing at his new stand-up drawing board (pictured above), so I offered to do a guest strip.
This is the first in a new round of Hot Seat critiques that will focus on book-cover design. As with all of the Hot Seat critiques, this is an opportunity for us to discuss real-life issues in cartooning. I’ll open with a few remarks, and then please feel free to join the discussion with your own thoughts.
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Q. I’ve been approached by the creator of a print comic title with an offer to buy my URL. I haven’t updated my comic in months due to a number of reasons, chief among them being my new son and new house. But I’d like to get it going again as soon as possible.
That said, do you have any idea how much these guys would pay for a URL? If I don’t sell, is there anyway they could try and claim it through trademark/copyright means?
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Hot on the heels of offering a streaming book service, Gumroad has recently unveiled a new option in offering discounts to buyers — percentage-based discounts.
From their site:When setting up a new offer, you can now toggle between dollars off and percentage off by clicking the $ or % symbol.
Save your changes and you’re ready to go.
Click the Share button to copy the link to your clipboard and dispense it to your intended discounted crew. Otherwise, make sure the box for “Add offer field to purchase form” is checked so buyers can enter the codes you’ve sent out (in the above example, “buddies” or “newslettersubbers”).
In either case, your buyers will see the original price to your product and what it will cost to them with the discount.
Offer codes are a great way to promote a launch, rejuvenate interest in an existing product, or give reviewers and influencers access.
Learn more about offer codes here.
This is a lecture that I prepared for my Arts Entrepreneurship students at Hussian School of Art in Philadelphia. It’s about dispelling 5 myths that pervade creative professionals’ minds:
• I’ll get discovered
• I have talent.
• I need to be brilliant.
• I don’t need to know the business side.
• Working for exposure gets my work “out there” — and that’s a good thing!
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Today’s Archive Dive dates back to Aug. 5, 2013, when we discussed a step-by-step tutorial on customizing the navigation buttons on your site.
It’s no secret. I despise some of the default navigation buttons that are included with webcomic CMS packages. The ones (as seen on the right) that come with ComicsPress are especially high on this list.
Personal aesthetics aside, using the default buttons kinda makes your site look like every other webcomic. It labels you as generic. Making your navigation buttons fit the look of your Web site is the first step towards separating yourself from the pack.
Although these instructions are written with Comic Easel in mind, I’m assured that the instructions are directly transferable to ComicsPress users.
I’ve been writing for this site since 2009, and I see a lot of webcomics. I initiate critiques, I get asked to do portfolio reviews at conventions, and I do comic consulting. I do it because I like it. I love talking comics, and I like having the opportunity to pass along the things I’ve learned by doing this for so long. AND, as I often say — here and to my classes at Hussian School of Art — I’ve already made all the mistakes so you don’t have to.
In seeing all of those webcomics, I see a lot of the same mistakes pop up over and over again. So I want to isolate the top five — not in a “boy are you a loser” way. Rather, since many of these are so widespread, my hope is that we can take some big steps to eradicating these six.
Number one should be no big surprise…
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It’s time to launch a new Hot Seat critique series, and I want to circle around to book covers again. We did a book-cover Hot Seat in 2012, and it was a really interesting experience, but we didn’t have a lot of participants. This is probably due to the nature of the topic, of course. After all — if you’re not currently working on a book, you don’t have a cover to workshop, right? But I wanted to give it another go-round in hopes of catching a few participants I may have missed before.
In the comments, please give me the following:
• Name
• Comic’s URL
• JPEG of your book cover — front and back in one image, please. And, please, no PDFs. Image files, only.
Here’s a little WordPress troubleshooting advice to put in your back pocket. Every once in a while, I’ll schedule a post on my site — and then find out much later in the day that the post hadn’t updated! It’s super-frustrating.
Worse yet, you can re-adjust the scheduled time and date, but the darned thing won’t budge!
And, for some reason, once you’ve assigned a post as “Scheduled,” you lose the option to simply hit “Publish.”
It’s still there, if you go to Posts -> All Posts and select Quick Edit for the post. You toggle “Status” to “Published.” But… no dice. That’s not working either.
Don’t sweat it. The answer is simple. You can solve this in a few easy steps.
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