With 108 Webcomics.com members responding, we have an interesting look at two of the third-rail topics in Webcomics — Pageviews and Income.
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Get out your calendar and start circling dates. It’s time to do a little webcomics planning.
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It’s high among the unwritten laws of webcomics. You never share your pageviews, and you never share your income. But it occurred to me that these pools are tailor-made for anonymous reporting of data. So I figured I’d float out the Big Two: Pageviews and Annual Income. Please be advised, I have no way of tracking responses, so your answers will be completely secret.
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As many of you know, I have spent the entirety of my career in Webcomics balancing that, my family life, and a “day job” (actually, a night job) at the Philadelphia Daily News.
Last month, the company announced layoffs, and — despite my 14 years’ seniority — the chances of my getting cut were pretty good. The day after they announced the layoffs, the company also announced a plan to combine the newsrooms of the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Daily News — switching to a “24/7” news organization that would be staffed around the clock.The content you are trying to access is only available to members.
You can always reduce digital art without sacrificing image quality. However, trying to enlarge art will usually result in poor image quality. That’s because you’re effectively reducing the DPI and the LPI of the image as you stretch it. If your original art has a high enough resolution, however, there’s a workaround. Here’s how to do it in Photoshop.
Select Image —> Image Size.
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Q.: I have several elements to my work, a children’s book, a young-adult graphic novel / webcomic, and an adult graphic novel. I also have a strong desire to launch a small press publishing company as an umbrella for my work (and possibly others). How do I split up these different hats in terms of domain branding? Most webcartoonists seem to have the name of their comic as the domain name, then buy a new domain if they do a new comic. Others put the titles under subdomains of one, main domain. My particular problem with the young-adult graphic novel is that I want to market to 12-to-16-year-olds, and I can foresee that being a bit tricky in terms of a 34-year-old man pursuing a young readership. (My story is based on my 12-year-old daughter.) I have brought a bunch of domains to go either way, but with my first-ever con fast approaching, I feel none the wiser.
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Q.: After over 2 years of drawing, I need a long-term method of storing my penciled artwork. I was thinking about buying a portfolio, but was wondering if that was good for storage. I also considered using a similar method for storing my full notebooks of written work.
I’ve been struggling with this issue ever since I moved into my new studio a year ago. Here are some things I’ve figured out along the way. The perfect art storage is…
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As you may recall from last week, Just The First Frame became the first comics aggregator to reveive an actual endorsement from this site. I’m hearing that members are receiving some good traffic from this site, so I wanted to take a moment to check in with the cretaor of JTFF.com, and find out more about what brought him to create the site and what plans he has for the future.
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I decided to follow last year’s poll on buffer size with a more specific question about the actual size of the buffers held by our members.
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Have you ever seen that on the copyright page of a book?
That’s a holdover from a different era in printing. This used to be a method used to indicate the print run of the book. Since the printing plates were expensive to produce, printers simply reused the plates and lopped off the number at the far right. Therefore, if you have a book that has the following series on its copyright page
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