Recorded live at the Emerald City Comicon in Seattle, WA earlier this month. It’s our live Webcomics Weekly panel.
Dear Webcomics.com, I’ve noticed a lot of the webcomics that are around my level (in terms of audience) are joining collectives. As the odd man out (they haven’t asked me to join their party) my opinion has been, they should be offering me more then just a few promises, to get me to join. I’ve noticed many of my fellow comickers giving up prime real estate on their sites, over to a collective-wide ad banner. From what I’ve been told, this banner will generate revenue to conventions, etc. The collectives in question are also suggesting that they will help generate traffic and all of the other typical rhetoric. They are also being told that they may join other collectives, and some will even host their comic for free. Talking with these individuals, they have decent reasons to back up every red flag that I point out. My question is: Am I being too skeptical? If I’m ever asked to join one, what should I be looking for to decide whether a collective is worth joining or not? –Carlisle
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Dear Webcomics.com, I am starting a new webcomic and have a quick question for you. A phrase used by many companies and Internet entities is also the name of my webcomic. Obviously I cannot trademark the name, but what if I add “…a webcomic” to the name? Is this small amount of clarification enough to justify a trademark? I have emailed the USPTO, but haven’t gotten a response, so I figured I would ask my favorite band of webcomics experts and creators. I can still copyright my characters obviously, but I was just curious about the title. Thanks for the help.
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Zim Zubkavich, a talented webcartoonist who made his splash with the gorgeously rendered Makeshift Miracle has posted a tutorial describing how he achieves his soft-line animation look on his current project, Legends of Zork.
One of the biggest things people who make comics lack — besides money, respect or success — is time. Ideally, we would have all the time in the world to sit down at the drawing board and make a perfect comic, but the realities of the world don’t work that way. We have jobs, relationships and responsibilities to take care of. We also have a nasty habit of absent-mindedly killing time.
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Enjoy this podcast from the Webcomics Weekly archives. It was taped mere minutes before Adsdaq booted a bunch of webcomics from its roster. So the discussion of its usefulness is academic at best. However, there’s also a great discussion about whether…
While we were at Emerald City Comic Con, the Halfpixel crew taped another live podcast.
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You’ve managed to secure a table at a comic convention. You’ve got your shirts and other merchandise prepared, your banners made and your tools for sketches ready. Sounds like you’re set, right? Well yes, but you could do more. Many people who have no idea what your comic is about, and they’re going to ask you. And you will try to tell them, but they still will not know.
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Much has been made lately of how large a buffer a webcartoonist needs in order to stay on schedule. Some seem to think a buffer can never be big enough. Others think a buffer of about month’s worth of strips is the perfect size.
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Designing Memorable Webcomics T-shirts from kaiki on Vimeo. Another great panel from NEWW — this time, focused on designing T-shirts based on your webcomic. Special thanks to Kaiki for taping the event and offering it to us.
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