KDP: Payment Thresholds Removed

For those of you publishing through Kindle Direct Publishing, Amazon has an announcement...

NCS Divisional Awards - Call for Entries

Reuben Awards

DEADLINE: Feb. 15

The National Cartoonists Society is starting it’s annual call for entries for consideration for their NCS Divisional Awards recognizing excellence in professional cartooning. As always, you DO NOT have to be a member of the NCS to have your work considered for a divisional award… all that is required is that the work be eligible as detailed below.

The NCS has added two award for "on-line" comics. To qualify, the following criteria must be met...

"Like"wise, I'm sure...

Earlier this week, I asked a question: "How do you -- as a user, not as a creator -- feel about being invited to Like someone's Page on Facebook?" The answers to my unscientific poll were fascinating...

Saturday Deep Dive: Rewarding Donations with Desktop Wallpaper

Tiday's dive into the deeper archive of Webcomics.com dates way back to the site's early days in 2009, when I shared a tutorial on offering desktop wallpapers to people who make donations to your site through Paypal.

Accepting donations on your site is a fairly well-accepted practice for most cartoonists. But if you're going to ask for money, many people argue, why not offer something in return? It stands to reason that this is not only polite, but it would increase the total number of donations. Offering a downloadable desktop wallpaper is an awesome way to encourage donations. The wallpaper itself is merely a JPEG that users will download and install on their computers. Plus, it's a nice bit of promotion for your site. Luckily, PayPal makes this extremely easy. (1) Set up a Donation button. (It's found under the Merchant Services tab.)

Read the entire piece and comment there.

Friday Archive Dive: When to Give Up

Today's Archive Dive is from Jan. 23, 2013, when a piece posted on First Second Books' Web site sparked an interesting debate on the feasibility of a comics career.

There's a pretty level-headed piece from First Second Books making the rounds that discusses an important topic in comics: When to give up. It's worth your time to read.

It's written from very much the same standpoint as a site post I did here back in 2010 titled "If It All Falls Down." From that post:

Read the entire post and comment there.