One ever-popular topic in the comics industry involves weighing the advantages and disadvantages of making a webcomic versus finding a traditional publisher. When you make a webcomic, you own all the rights, you have full control, and nothing gets in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Recommended Graphic Novel: The Revolution Will Be Televised By Peter Sorry we’re late this week. There’s just a lot going on. You’ll hear more about it next week. In case you don’t remember, Joshua is on his way to meet[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Jet City Comic Show By Peter Last weekend, I went to the Jet City Comic Show in Seattle Center. It was as if someone took the Emerald City ComicCon and aimed a shrink-ray at it. It had all of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Recommended Graphic Novel: Power Nap By Peter There’s a fairly new webcomic on the scene called Power Nap. It takes place in the near future, where a pill has been invented that makes it so that no one needs to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Lazy Food and Documentary on Comics By Peter New chapter! We’re back with Joshua at his home. In my household, I’m in charge of making dinner for our family most weekdays. I usually make something reasonably interesting and nutritious, but[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We’re in between chapters, and taking the opportunity to put up a filler page, so we can catch up on things. It’s a crazy time of year, with kids going back to school and work starting to get more intense.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Mailing List By Peter This ends chapter 6! I have a mailing list of friends and family who I notify when a chapter is done. I know that reading a page a week is just too slow for a lot[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Bloglet By Amanda The Arrival by Shaun Tan is a wordless graphic novel that is so exquisitely drawn it leaves me breathless. If you haven’t seen it, do take a look. I also very much enjoyed Tan’s Tales from Outer[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Traditional Publicity for Webcomics By Peter There’s a forum called webcomics.com where artists and writers can discuss all kinds of things about the art of making comics for the web. I asked people what they thought of traditional publicity vs.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Remember that interview I mentioned last week? It got published this week! The easiest place to read it is on the Seattle Public Housing blog: http://seattlehousing.org/news/releases/2011/coiled-web-comic/index.html One of the things I am still getting used to when writing for a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…