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Monday, March 18, 2013 at 10:51AM Due to popular demand, we're going to discuss convention booth displays. Participants have submitted photos of their convention set-ups, and I'm going to discuss some points. Please share your thoughts in the comments below.
As a preface, here's what I personally look for in good booth design...
Saturday, March 16, 2013 at 5:00AM Today's dive into the deeper archives of Webcomics.com bring us to an excellent resource for lettering in comics by Nate Piekos.
Blambot's Nate Piekos has written a spectacularly helpful piece on comic typography that should be required reading for all webcartoonists -- particularly the section on one of the most prevalent errors, the crossbar "I". From the intro: Comic-book lettering has some grammatical and aesthetic traditions that are quite unique. What follows is a list that every letterer eventually commits to his/her own mental reference file. The majority of these points are established tradition, sprinkled with modern trends and a bit of my own opinion having lettered professionally for a few years now. The majority of these ideas have been established by Marvel and DC, but opinions vary from editor to editor, even within the same company. I'm often asked to bend or break these rules based on what "feels" best, or more likely, the space constraints within a panel. Read the entire piece on Blambot.
Friday, March 15, 2013 at 5:00AM Today's Archive Dive come from March 22, 2012, when we discussed a member's question about doing work across several domains.
Q.: I have several elements to my work, a children's book, a young-adult graphic novel / webcomic, and an adult graphic novel. I also have a strong desire to launch a small press publishing company as an umbrella for my work (and possibly others). How do I split up these different hats in terms of domain branding? Most webcartoonists seem to have the name of their comic as the domain name, then buy a new domain if they do a new comic. Others put the titles under subdomains of one, main domain. My particular problem with the young-adult graphic novel is that I want to market to 12-to-16-year-olds, and I can foresee that being a bit tricky in terms of a 34-year-old man pursuing a young readership. (My story is based on my 12-year-old daughter.) I have brought a bunch of domains to go either way, but with my first-ever con fast approaching, I feel none the wiser.
Thursday, March 14, 2013 at 2:59PM During a Dec. 10, 2010, taping of Webcomics Weekly (episode #73), Scott Kurtz said the following around the 23:23 mark:
[Paraphrasing]
Scott: I -- and maybe I'll get over it -- when I buy an album on iTunes, I own it. Like, it's a file I can put on media. I can burn it on a CD or load it on different computers. I can take my music with me. But these comics we're buying -- on the Comixology app and all these iPad apps -- I don't own them. I'm essentially renting them
Dave: Yeah, you own access to them
Scott: I own access to them. There's no file anywhere. I can't put them anywhere.
Dave: Yeah, and if Comixology goes [under] next week, then you're boned.
Scott: ...all that money I spent is gone...
Well, Comixology is going strong, but the situationitself has happened.
According to Comic Beat:
It came in the night like an earthquake or a car crash: JManga, the digital manga portal set up by 39 of Japan’s migegst publishers, is shutting down. As of last night you could not make any more point purchases, as of the 26th you will no longer be able to purchase manga and as of May 30th the entire site goes away — taking all of the manga you bought with it.
Thursday, March 14, 2013 at 8:55AM The Harvey Awards are now accepting nominations. Anyone who creates a comic (that's you) may nominate fellow creators / titles for the different categories. They have a new, online nomination form, in addition to their traditional downloadable PDF that you can print out and snail-mail in. Just scroll to the bottom of the digital form.
