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Thursday, February 7, 2013 at 1:30PM This is the second installment in the Web Design Hot seat. Same rules as all of the Hot Seat critiques. I'll discuss the participant's work and then open the conversation up to the group at large. Each header contains a link to the comic's Web site, and each image is a thumbnail you can click to see a larger version of the image.
Wednesday, February 6, 2013 at 5:00AM If you're not a member of Webcomics.com, here's what you missed last month.
Q&A: Mailbag apps and cutting out the middlemen
Critique series: Composition
Special imformation for users of Adobe CS2
Eisners, Hugos and Reubens: Deadlines, entry details, submission guidelines
Bonus post: Guest column on Bleeding Cool on the process behind creating my monthly comic downloads
Bonus post: Stuff Said podcast interview
DaFont: Site review
Bonus post: Bill Day and self-plagiarism
Open call for a new Hot Seat critique series on Web site design
Opinion: Steering clear of the sites and the snake-oil salesmen who make too-good-to-be-true claims
When to Give Up
Creating halftones for print
Bonus post: Breaking the Q1 slump
Guest post: Tone Deaf Comics convention set-up
Exercise for cartoonists
Psst. Back up your Web site
Reminder: ComicCraft's New Year's Day Sale
Developing a new comic -- issues with identity and copyright
What to sell in Artists Alley
Freelance debacle
Good software for remaking my site?
Kickstarter tiers -- what works?
What if digital comics adopted the Angry Birds model?
Taxes: Should I file annually or quarterly?
Comic Chameleon
Photoshop Autosave program
Google Reader problem
Mangamagazine.net
Tapastic
Creating effective tweets
Long-form comics
Table set-ups that can travel
Big Panda
Shifty Look
Postal Rate increase to Canada
Frendon Photoshop brushes
Advice on ending my long-running comic
Tuesday, February 5, 2013 at 5:00AM Get out your calendar and start circling dates. It's time to do a little webcomics planning.
Monday, February 4, 2013 at 9:30AM Today is the first of a series of group critiques on Web design. Same rules as all Hot Seat critiques. I'll share some thoughts on the topic and then open it up to discussion. Links to the comics being discussed are in the headers.
Saturday, February 2, 2013 at 5:00AM The Webcomics.com Archive is so big, there's almost too much stuff that's worth reviewing to do only one Archive Dive a week. So every now and then, I'm going to do a Deep Dive. Consider it another bonus post. This one dates back to Feb. 22, 2010, and it focuses on a humor theory I've used for years called the Punchword. The post itself is very good -- but the conversation that ensues is pure gold.
... there are as many ways to build tension as there are to write punchlines, but here's a concept that I think has helped to maximize my tension-building: The punchword.
Punchword
The punchword is the word -- or short phrase -- that holds the greatest amount of surprise for your reader. It's the word with the greatest amount of charge where the joke is concerned. It's the word with all of the power.
Take a quick look at some of the effective punchlines you come across in your daily reading. Now dissect the punchline. There's one word that holds the most surprise -- the one that sticks the needle into the balloon.
I'll maintain that you should -- whenever possible -- hold off on that punchword until the very last moment.
