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Webcomics Confidential: You’re wasting money on advertising

Unless you have a granular knowledge of advertising, demographics, and much more, you're probably wasting money on "plug-and-play" advertising like...

Social media and behavioral modification

B.F. Skinner's research showed that rewards and punishments can alter a subject's behavior. We can use those same simple techniques...

Blambot sale

Blambot's biggest sale of the year is happening now! Save 25% off your entire order at blambot.com. This sale runs...

December To-Do List

It's already December. This month is dominated by holidays—both preparing for and celebrating them—and it's the end of the year....

ComicLab Ep 363 — Nobody believes I’m a cartoonist

How do you explain to someone that you're a professional cartoonist? More importantly — should you even try?! Also, Dave...

How to record a Patreon walk-through video

Patreon has proven to be a game-changer for many people pursuing webcomics. However, some new patrons have difficulty navigating the Patreon...

The best days to launch/conclude a Kickstarter

While recording an interview for the marvelous Story/Comic podcast, I discussed my strategy for secretly launching a Kickstarter to Patreon...

Webcomics Confidential: ‘You have the audience you deserve’

Many of us seek a magic hashtag or "One Weird Trick" to game SEO and drive readers to our work....

ComicLab Ep 362 — Your content is not your community

When comic creators try to market their comics, they often confuse what their comic is about with who it's for....

Remove your first panel

If you've been a reader of Webcomics.com for a while, you know how much I loathe "magic number" advice. But...

Submitting a story for Webcomics.com

We’re still struggling to get the site back in working order after being thrown for a loop a few weeks back. As a result, the “Submit” button at the top of the site, isn’t working. In the meantime, if you’re interested in sending us something for consideration, please e-mail it directly to me. All entries are subject to editing.

by Brad Guigar on April 1, 2009

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Emerald City Comic Con: This Weekend!

One of the very finest stops on the comic-con circuit happens this weekend in Seattle at the Washington State Convention & Trade Center.

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by Brad Guigar on March 31, 2009

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Webcomics Weekly Episode 58: Leaving For Seattle (In A Huff?)

Dave and Brad discuss their fascination with the English language, Brad’s mistrust of Spanish. Then they dive into the mailbag to discuss webcomics’ place in academia and how to focus your comic into what it’s supposed to be about. Along the way, they…

by on March 30, 2009

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Fan art as a promotion tool

Webcartoonists are always on the lookout for ways to expose their work to more potential readers.

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by Brad Guigar on March 30, 2009

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Webcomics Weekly LIVE video

If you scroll down the right-hand column on this page, you’ll see an embedded video from Halfpixel’s live Webcomics Weekly performance at NEWW. Special thanks to Kaiki for taping. For more visual fun, check out the NEWW photo pool on Flickr.

by Brad Guigar on March 29, 2009

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Turbocharge Your Blog

Merlin Mann’s and John Gruber’s talk from SXSW – “HOWTO: 149 Surprising Ways to Turbocharge Your Blog With Credibility!” – has some great ideas about being a creative person on the Web that apply very much to webcomics.

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by Brad Guigar on March 26, 2009

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Webcomics Weekly Episode 57: Live At NEWW

Live from the New England Webcomics Weekend! Brad, Dave, Kris and Scott talk newspapers, webcomics and more live to a packed room of webcomic readers and fanatics. Hands down, this episode is unanimously our favorite we’ve ever recorded. Not…

by on March 25, 2009

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NEWW Webcomics Weekly Live

NEWW Webcomics Weekly Live from kaiki on Vimeo.

Join the Halfpixel gang of Brad Guigar, Dave Kellett, Scott Kurtz, and Kris Straub as they record their renowned podcast before a live studio audience.

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by Brad Guigar on March 25, 2009

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