Bonus Post: Lame obit cartoons

So, everyone with a social-media log-in is smugly rolling their eyes over the lame Roger Ebert obituary cartoons. Gene Siskel hands Roger a bag of popcorn in a heavenly theater… St. Peter gives Ebert the “thumbs-up,”… etc.

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by on April 5, 2013
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Gary Tyrrell: Inside the “Committee of Six”

Last week, we had an intense discussion of the nominating process of the online comics categories of the NCS’s Divisional Awards. The arguments became circular very quickly, and at the end, I didn’t understand it any more clearly than I did when the thread started. And I really wanted to understand it better.

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by on April 4, 2013
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Who’s the Fool?

I was doing my morning trawl around the Internet and I was struck by the number of cartoonists who were making exciting announcements regarding their comics — movie deals, animation contracts, awards, etc.

And then I remembered that today was the First of April.

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by on April 1, 2013
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Using Gumroad for Digital Downloads

When I started offering Digital Downloads of the upcoming month’s worth of comic strips for Evil Inc, I handled it entirely through Paypal. I enabled micropayments on PayPal, and get up “Buy It Now” buttons that accepted the payment and then deposited the user to a page that I had set up to facilitate the download.

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by on March 28, 2013
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