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…
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…
Being lonely in a large city has a listener feeling a little Ziggy — and cartoonists Dave Kellett and Brad Guigar have some advice.
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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?
The content you are trying to access is only available to members.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.
The content you are trying to access is only available to members.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.
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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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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.
The content you are trying to access is only available to members.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.
The content you are trying to access is only available to members.24-Hour Comics Day is in a couple weeks — October 1st, to be exact. Here’s what you need to know…
The content you are trying to access is only available to members.Unless you have a granular knowledge of advertising, demographics and a whole lot more, you’re probably wasting money on “plug-and-play” advertising like Google Ads and paid promotion on social-media. Here’s why…
The content you are trying to access is only available to members.Cartoonists Dave Kellett and Brad Guigar discuss the fabulously underrated Butso Method for writing.
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