As I was writing yesterday’s post about building an e-newsletter for your fans, it took me back to a time in my early geezerdom — before RSS — when I was e-mailing my comic out to my readers who didn’t want to visit the site daily.
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Sending out a monthly e-newsletter is a great way to keep in touch with readers — and an awesome way to get the word out on new information about your webcomic. It takes a little time to prep, but it’s a well-targeted message to an interested audience is incredibly valuable as you build your community. Here are some thoughts.
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A number of members have communicated that they’d like to have more abilities to receive critiques.
To that end, I’ve created a new area on the site, Critiques, that people can post requests to have certain aspects of their webcomics critiqued by other members.
This is not the place for “Hey! Look at my webcomic!” This is the place to get brutally honest reviews of certain aspects of your work by peers.
The minute I see testy replies from thin-skinned creators, the thread gets locked and we move on.
Remember: You asked for it. 🙂
Mary Cagle posted this in the Private Forum, but I wanted to make sure to showcase it out here in case anyone missed it:
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From Mashable, here are five Gmail productivity tips that I found really useful.
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[NOTE: This is an archive post. A “new post” e-mail was sent out by mistake.]
I’m afraid I’m going to have to ask the members who are participating in the Reddit thread to discontinue.
In discussing logos, we’ve hit legibility, negative space and typography. In the preceding installment, we began talking about concept. In this final installment, we’re going to conclude the concept discussion.
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Tomorrow is the first day of September, and the kids are headed back to school. Which is great is you’re a webcartoonist, because that means they’re returning to reading webcomics from school.
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In discussing logos, we’ve hit legibility, negative space and typography.
The fourth key to good logo design is concept.
In other words, this is the idea behind the logo itself. Making the image (if any) work together with the type to convey something significant about the comic. It’s the hook, if you will — the spirit of the logo.
There are a lot of logos that could be improved by addressing their approach to concept. So many that I’m going to break this section into two parts.
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When Scott Kurtz intriduced comics writer Mark Waid for his keynote address at the 2010 Harvey Awards ceremony, he referenced the phenomenon of “Mark Waid is evil” T-shirts, joking that he wanted to walk up to one of these guys with a shirt that said, “No shit.”
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