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Eisner-nomintaed As the Crow Flies cartoonist Melanie Gillman has a cute, simple intro to the basics of color theory, which will help you understand why movies are all orange and teal and European-style coloring look way more pleasing than rando pseudo CGI.

At the MGA Con a few weeks ago I was on a panel on breaking into comics, and someone asked about resources for writing comics. I said I would throw up some reference, and...

The nominees for the Inkwell Awards, which recognize the stars of inking, have been announced and they are below. You can find out more about the awards, which will be presented at this year's Heroes Con, at their website. Inking may be one of the more fragile vocations in the comics ecosystem, but these talenetd people deserve all the recognition they can get.

JImmy Palmiotti talks about how to run a Kickstarter and where he sees it going for comics creators, as well as his new project, Denver, a story inspired by European comics albums.

Mark Morales is a comic book superstar. Having worked on many of the best-selling Marvel titles of the last few years, he's worked as an inker alongside artists like Olivier Coipel, Jim Cheung, and...

Yeah right. I'm sure with the new year, everyone has an idea to lose weight, get organized, ditch email or read more comics. How close we come to any of those is a matter of focus and discipline, but let's all try! Getting Things Done is the subject of many books and methods, especially for today's multi tasking electronic world. The distraction of 25 Crazy Thongs Miley Cyrus Wore and You Won't Believe What This Adorable Puppy Did to This Shoe! is a constant menace for all, and some experts think we all have some degree of ADD because of it.

This is a good one to leave the year on, I think, a 4000 word essay by Becky Cloonan on the evolution and execution of her self-published minis, which have won Eisner awards and...

If you wonder who is the hardest working man in comics biz, there is only one answer: Charles Soule, currently scripting seven monthly titles and running a law firm. As he admits in this post, people are always asking him "HOW ARE YOU DOING THIS???"—in fact I asked him that the last time I saw him—so he has written a blog post to explain so he doesn't have to waste precious time answering that question any more.

Fearless Defenders, the Marvel series from Cullen Bunn and Will Sliney, is drawing to a close. After twelve issues with the characters, next month's issue will be the last. Which is sad - but...

Marvel historian Sean Howe has collected a bunch of Jim Lee's instagrams of rejection letters from the '80s, including this one from Eliot R. Brown. Although the curt advice "come back when you are...

By Adam McGovern One of the final panels of SPX 2013 was about fruitful points of departure. “Paying Tribute: Traditions of Style,” hosted by Joe McCulloch and featuring comics re-creators Ed Piskor, Jim Rugg, Tom...

For 20 years, ace letterer Todd Klein has been releasing a series of prints showcasing his calligraphic skills. Many were done with writers supplying the text—Neil Gaiman and Bill Willingham among them—but his new...