Category: Comics

The creators of 933 Dollars did a guest comic for Girls With Slingshots which was pretty funny. Doing a great guest comic for a more established webcomic can be one of the best marketing tactics for a new webcomic. Especially if there’s some overlap between the two comics, which in this case there is a little bit. 933 Dollars is about a high school graduate heading off to art college; needing desperately to find a place to stay that she can afford. 933 Dollars has really nice art, just over easy on the eyes. The writing is at times really …

A good one from Penny Arcade:

So I am reading the amazing comic epic Fables in order, which has totally sucked me in (which is great because when I picked up a random issue awhile ago I didn’t get it/like it). I already blogged about my efforts to buy an earlier part of the archives. Next book on my list to read is Fables: Homelands which is the 6th volume in the tradebook collections. The X-family got a mini iPad this Christmas so I thought it might be fun to read some Fables on the iPad. It looks like it is only available on Comixology as …

Back in the 20th century before “social media” there were still lots of tools available to cartoonists to promote their work and to help discover new comics.  Not nearly as good as the stuff we have available today but I think most of us were thrilled to have an online audience and experimenting with whatever we could to add a few readers here and there. “Web Rings” were pretty common in the late nineties, maybe even into the early 2000s (not entirely sure when they faded). I didn’t start the Comic Stripper’s Ring (so don’t blame me for the bad …

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 …