Webcomics Confidential: You’re wasting money on advertising

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...
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Social media and behavioral modification

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...
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Blambot sale

Blambot sale

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

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....
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ComicLab Ep 363 — Nobody believes I’m a cartoonist

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...
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How to record a Patreon walk-through video

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...
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The best days to launch/conclude a Kickstarter

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...
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Webcomics Confidential: ‘You have the audience you deserve’

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....
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ComicLab Ep 362 — Your content is not your community

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....
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Remove your first panel

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...
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Getting Bored

 

(Comic courtesy of Dave Kellett)

Many of us started our webcomics as a hobby — more for fun than anything else. The problem is that under the pressures of updating, keeping fans happy, etc., the comic goes from a fun hobby to being just another chore. To combat this feeling, here are a few tips that I have found work well.

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by on February 5, 2009
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If We Can Make It There…


The first big comic convention of the year, New York Comic Con, kicks off this Friday with opportunities to say hi to two of the Halfpixel / Webcomics Weekly crew.
Brad Guigar will be in the Small Press area — booth number 2442 — exhibiting under the Evil Inc flag. And Scott Kurtz will be making a rare East Coast appearance as he hangs out at the Penny Arcade table.

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by on February 3, 2009
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February To-Do List

Get out your calendar and start circling dates. It’s time to do a little webcomics planning.

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by on February 2, 2009
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Charity Begins At Home(page)

Accepting donations on your site is a fairly well-accepted practice for most cartoonists. But if you’re going to ask for money, many people argue, why not offer something in return? It stands to reason that this is not only polite, but it would increase the total number of donations. Offering a downloadable desktop wallpaper is an awesome way to encourage donations. The wallpaper itself is merely a JPEG that users will download and install on their computers. Plus, it’s a nice bit of promotion for your site. Luckily, PayPal makes this extremely easy.

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by on January 30, 2009
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… But What About Long-Form Comics?

 

Evidently, it’s all in the translation. As part of the comments to an earlier post about the webcomics-related panels at New York Comic Con, Scott wrote:

I know that so far the most successful webcomics have been the gag-a-day strips, but I wish there could be more representation for long-form comics stories. The new Diamond rules are going to drive many long-form creators to the web, and I think we could all benefit from some discussion specific to our situation.

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by on January 28, 2009
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Take a picture

Here’s some advice that I got from Bill Barnes through Dave Kellett.

When you’re exhibiting at a comic convention, don’t pass up an excellent opportunity for community building: Bring your camera. Photos of your convention appearance make for nice bonus content for your readers, but more importantly, you should be taking photos of people who bought your merchandise standing proudly with their newly gotten gains

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by on January 27, 2009
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Webcomics panels at New York Comic Con


New York Comic Con is just around the corner — February 6-8. Here’s your guide to all of the webcomics-related panels and a few that might be of special interest:

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by on January 26, 2009
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