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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Key dates in the upcoming holiday shopping season

Key dates in the upcoming holiday shopping season

From Black Friday to New Year's sales, here's a guide to help you prepare your online store for the holiday...
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Webcomics Confidential: How long should it take to draw a comics page?

Webcomics Confidential: How long should it take to draw a comics page?

A person starting to do comics asked a question in a forum for creators: "How long does it take you...
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Comics Consultations

Comics Consultations

Powered by I will prepare top-down analysis of your comic-based business, including: Art and writing Social media Crowdfunding Marketing/promotion Then...
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ComicLab Ep 361 — Let’s talk about your bits and pieces

ComicLab Ep 361 — Let’s talk about your bits and pieces

When a listener asks about Kickstarter strategy, the ComicLab guys are divided! Dave favors the traditional webcomics approach. Build your...
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Reddit posting strategy

Reddit posting strategy

This is an excellent time to start an account on Reddit — or to dust off a profile you haven't...
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Clip Studio tutorial: Adding highlights to black hair

Clip Studio tutorial: Adding highlights to black hair

Drawing a person with black hair can be tricky. If you're not careful, you can end up with someone who...
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Webcomics Confidential: “Don’t quit your day job!”

Webcomics Confidential: “Don’t quit your day job!”

"Don't quit your day job" is often used to insult artists and imply that they haven't become successful yet. But...
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COmicLab Ep 360 — New ways to make an old mistake

COmicLab Ep 360 — New ways to make an old mistake

After years of listening to Brad and Dave extoll the virtues of self-publishing, a ComicLab listener signed with a corporate...
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ComicLab Ep 250 — Looking forward to flashbacks

The cartoonist uncles have a disagreement! Dave Kellett hates flashbacks, and Brad Guigar can’t get enough! They’ll talk about the right way to handle a flashback in your comic, when you should use one — and whether you shouldn’t reconsider the whole approach in the first place!

ON THIS WEEK’S SHOW…

  • How to present a flashback scene in your comic
  • Should you brand your Patreon on the comic — or on the creator?
  • Making time to write when you’re busy drawing — Brad shares his writing process that allows him to plot the story out for several months, while writing individual updates every week.

Brad Guigar is the creator of Evil Inc and the author of The Webcomics Handbook. Dave Kellett is the creator of Sheldon and Drive.

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by on October 6, 2022
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October To-Do List

This is a time when creativity seems to be at an all-time high everywhere you look. From carved pumpkins to costumes to haunted houses to the really scary stuff like, well…

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by on October 5, 2022
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ComicLab Ep 249 — Feeling a little Ziggy

Being lonely in a large city has a listener feeling a little Ziggy — and cartoonists Dave Kellett and Brad Guigar have some advice.

ON THIS WEEK’S SHOW…

  • Feeling a little Ziggy
  • Making money while on government assistance
  • The secret success is… failure
  • Making a board game or card game based on your comic
  • Sheldon… the movie?
by on September 29, 2022
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Clip Studio Paint — applying hand poses

Q.: I have a CSP question that I haven’t been able to get an answer from the Googles. With 3D models, sometimes when I drop a hand pose onto a hand it’ll do one hand, but usually it changes both. I haven’t been able to figure out why or how to control when it does one hand vs. both?

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by on September 28, 2022
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How long should it take to do your comic?

A person who was just starting to do comics asked a question in a forum for creators: “How long does it take you to do one four-panel strip?” They got a wide range of answers — each one of them as unhelpful as the next. They had asked the wrong question, and their creativity was going to suffer as a result.

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by on September 23, 2022
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ComicLab Ep 248 — Has Publishing Become Vanity Press?

A recent statistic about the print publishing industry have cartoonists Dave Kellett and Brad Guigar thankful they self-publish. Also… the NFT comics company that reached out to Dave at San Diego Comic Con folded eight days later. 

ON THIS WEEK’S SHOW…

  • Publishing statistics report 90% of published books sell under 2,000 copies
  • What are the disadvantages to self-publishing?
  • UPDATE: NFT company dies in 10 days
  • Audiobook versions of comics
  • Creating videos of comics

Today is a great time to bump up your ComicLab membership to the $10 tier! Patreon backers at that level will get exclusive access to livestream recording sessions — as well as an archive of previous livestreams!

You get great rewards when you join the ComicLab Community on Patreon

  • $2 — Early access to episodes
  • $5 — Submit a question for possible use on the show AND get the exclusive ProTips podcast. Plus $2-tier rewards.
  • $10 — Gain access to the ComicLab livestreamed recording sessions (including an archive of past livestreams), plus $5-tier rewards

Brad Guigar is the creator of Evil Inc and the author of The Webcomics Handbook. Dave Kellett is the creator of Sheldon and Drive.

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by on September 22, 2022
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Shipping comics using Media Mail

There seems to be some misinformation going around about whether it’s legal to ship comics using the Media Mail service of the U.S. Postal Service. Since this misunderstanding this could cost you hundreds of dollars, let’s get it straightened out now.

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by on September 21, 2022
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You have the audience you deserve

Many of us are looking for a magic hashtag or “One Weird Trick” to game SEO and drive readers to our work. But I’d like to share a moment of Tough Love when a mentor told me: “You have the audience you deserve.” Once I stopped looking for shortcuts and focused on the quality of my work, my audience began to grow.

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by on September 20, 2022
Posted In: Marketing / Social Media
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