The Science of Self-Care

I liked Corey Marie’s comic on the science of self-care.  You get closer to middle aged and you really have to be more careful about managing yourself to get anything more than just getting by done.  I like the idea of keeping an inventory of your physical, mental, emotional and spiritual progress — they’re all parts of being healthy. But it helps to be realistic, set goals you can reach (you can set stretch goals too but you’re going depress yourself if you never hit ANY of your goals).  I just saw John “Old Man‘s War” Scalzi’s post on his …

Notes on Making a Webcomic

So I have completely forgotten most of what I used to do to make a webcomic.  I spent some quality ADD time today jumping around tutorials but mostly just dived in.  I sketched small thumbnails working out panel structure and dialogue; took photos with the iphone and loaded it up in Manga Studio to finish the sketches digitally. I definitely used to draw a larger, more detailed version on paper before scanning it in properly (with a flatbed scanner) — not sure skipping that step is saving me that much time or helping with the final product.  Chalk it up …

Online Vs Offline Pricing

I’ve read pieces of Fables but want to read it in order all the way through.  I need Fables Deluxe Edition Two (or I’d settle for the trade paperbacks with the same issues) so I called local comic shop first.  They don’t have it in.  I looked online — Amazon is out of stock so I jumped over to Barnes and Noble online. They have it – great!   Price online is discounted just like at Amazon.  Oh and hey – B&N has this button labeled PICK ME UP which lets you know if one of their physical stores has …

A Review of Digestate: A Food & Eating Themed Anthology.

First off a general apology for not really keeping up with reviews or mentions of books sent to me in the last half of 2012. Life is busy and comics had to give more than a little this year. Reviewing stuff was the easiest to let go of, at least for awhile. I got a review copy in November of an anthology put together by J.T. Yost (I’ve reviewed his work before on ComixTALK here and here) about food and eating. J.T. is a vegetarian and he’s not afraid to inject his world views into his comics. His contribution to …

Interview with Kazu Kibushi

It’s from August but I just listened to a lengthy interview with Kazu Kibushi by Jason Brubecker on the Making Comics podcast.  Kazu’s artistic partner on the Amulet books – Jason Caffoe is also part of the interview.  Very interesting stuff — click here for part one and part two.

Letting Some Domain Names Go

I’m giving up Comixpedia/media/talk Dot Nets and Dot Orgs if anyone is interested. Don’t know why anyone would be, but if you are feel free to contact me. (I already gave Comixpedia.org to the webcomics wiki several years ago) But I’m still hanging on to the Dot Coms though — I haven’t decided yet on the future, if any, for those sites.