A few links to help you get warmed up as you start your week. The first is an interesting twist on last week’s discussion about quitting your day job…
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Assuming the eventual (financial) goal of a webcomic artist is to support themselves, there seems to be a bit of a middle ground between “beer and pizza money” and “quit the day job”. It would seem to me that if you treat your webcomics income just as straight income, you’re never going to want to go from (day job + comic) to just (comic). Is this actually a concern? How did you handle the transition?
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You’re busy. I get that. You’re exercise-averse, too. I get that also. Exercise for the sake of exercise is a pretty challenging pitch. I’m a big fan of skiing, snowboarding, and biking, but each one of those is fun before it’s exercise. Going for a run is exercise before fun in my mind. And, it feels like I’m burning up precious time that could be used for making my webcomic better. So why would you make time during your busy day for fitness?
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One inspired blogger points out why the term Monday Blues doesn’t apply to webcomics readers… find out why.
Project Wonderful is a very useful tool for displaying ads on your webcomic site. Through this system, prospective advertisers bid on ad space on your site. The highest bidder wins the space. However, I think many webcartoonists are undermining their own best interests by not using PW to its fullest extent. Specifically, they’re not setting their minimum bids high enough and they’re misusing their “Your ad here” message
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In this month’s To-Do list, it is suggested that you prepare a media kit for the summer convention season. What is a media kit, and why do you need one? A media kit is a folder that contains information about you and your comic, along with samples of your work, recent press releases and other promotional material. It is handed to a member of the media to enable (or encourge) them to cover your work in their publication. In short, a media kit is, as the name implies, the building blocks to the story that you want the world to know. In preparing the media kit, you are giving the journalist everything she needs to tell the story that you want to have told. Here are a few things you might like to consider including in yours:
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As the United States Postal Service prepares to increase its rates, it’s an excellent time to talk about some Shipping 101. First off, print out this PDF and keep it near your workstation. It’s a handy guide to the prices that take effect May 11. You can go here for more information and links to areas of specific interest. Now, for a little shipping primer:
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Get out your calendar and start circling dates. It’s time to do a little webcomics planning for the month of May.This week’s episode is a live recording from our panel at the Emerald City Comicon.
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