How to Steal Like an Artist…
Here’s a piece titled How To Steal Like an Artist (And 9 Other Things Nobody Told Me) passed along by member Paul Tallman, who found it eye-opening and encouraging. Enjoy!
Here’s a piece titled How To Steal Like an Artist (And 9 Other Things Nobody Told Me) passed along by member Paul Tallman, who found it eye-opening and encouraging. Enjoy!
Q.: We recently had an overzealous reader leave a ton of comments on our site at once, with a handful of them talking about how much I “fascinate” him. He even asked for a photo of me (mentioning that he already checked google but couldn’t find any). He also doesn’t seem to understand that the character in our comic and I are not the same thing.
While I’m not too worried that this will turn into a serious problem, it’s still a little creepy. Do you have any advice on how to handle people like this? Do we point out that they’re being inappropriate and try to get them to tone down their weirdness? Or do we just ignore them and hope they go away?
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Part three in an ongoing critique of comics picked at random from participating members. As with before, if I re-write the punchline, I’m not necessarily trying to go funnier. I’m trying to demonstrate construction. I want to show how you re-assembling the logical steps along the progression of your comic can lead to a more polished punchline. It may not seem funnier for your sense of humor. But I’m confident that if you pay attention to the construction, you’ll be able to take away somethin that works for you.
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<geezer mode>Back in the day, the Webcomics Community rallied around April Fool’s Day.</geezer mode>
Hecl, there were even organized events in which cartoonists would arrange in advance to swicth off and do each other’s titles for the day, sending readers into a supposed tizzy, trying to figure out who was doing what.
That kind of thing has died down somewhat, but I’m sure there’s still some pranksters out there celebrating the day.
Feel free to post links to April Fool’s webcomics in the Comments below.
In discussing Scott’s recent decision to cross the NCS off his bucket list, the Webcomics Weekly gang investigates how one’s reputation is effected by the past — both in positive and negative ways.
The first part of the random punchline critique went pretty well, so let’s press on. In a few of these, I’m going to re-write the punchline — but not for the reason you might think. I’m not trying to go funnier. I’m trying to demonstrate construction. I want to show how you re-assembling the logical steps along the progression of your comic can lead to a more polished punchline. It may not seem funnier for your sense of humor. But I’m confident that if you pay attention to the construction, you’ll be able to take away somethin that works for you.
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Last week, I asked what you would do if you had one more hour in the day to devote to your comic. With 123 members responding, the two dominant choices were art (29%) and writing (22%). Falling a distant third is a tie between Web-site improvement and Marketing / promotion (11% each).
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