Must read: David Harper on the diminishing role of the comics artist at the...
It's hard to believe in the era of Tumblr and Imgur and gifs and all that, but in comics artists seem to be getting the short end of the stick, at least in some...
Comics are great….except when they aren’t
It's a brand new year, and everyone is looking back on all the great comics that came out and all the great things coming up, and sales are up and things are going great....
Must read: Ryan Estrada on making and selling ebooks
Webcartoonist Ryan Estrada (Plagued, Aki Alliance) has a tutorial complete with widget on how to make an ebook out of a webcomic, and then how to sell it. It really is about as...
The cost of art theft: from Spike Lee to Rachel Dukes
I'm sure over the holiday you heard about how graphic designer Juan Luis Garcia presented pretty compelling evidence that his striking design for a poster for the Oldboy remake was shamelessly ripped off by...
Must read: Spike’s Everything I Know
Cartoonist C. Spike Trotman is one of the most self-assured creators we've ever met. Whether it's her long running webcomic Templar, AZ or her guide to living on a little money, Poorcraft, or her...
NYCC ’13 Panel Recap: From Creator to Consumer
I have a number of panel recaps to write up for you all, so you should expect them to occupy the next few days on the site - and we start with a panel...
Breaking news: Cartoonist gets paying job!!!!
The unthinkable has happened. A cartoonist has been hired for a job that pays a living wage. Instead of heating up old shoe leather to serve with his peanut butter, he'll be able to...
That time that comics didn’t die
For some reason, this post I wrote in February 2012 popped up on my feed; it was called Comics Crisis: Doujinshi Nation and at the time, people seemed to think that Gary Friedrich's loss...
Keith Knight offers new subscription service
Even as Matt Bors has been making the rounds telling us how editorial cartooning is dead (which is it) enterprising cartoonists such as Ruben Bolling and Stephanie McMillan have been fihting back by offering...
Jim Lee asks the hard question: top artists of the last five years?
Tonight's dinner topic: Who are your 3 favorite new artists who have emerged in the past 5 years?
— Jim Lee (@JimLee) June 20, 2013
//platform.twitter.com/widgets.jsIn a tweet the other night, DC co-publisher Jim Lee asked...
Note to artists: “Don’t give it away!”
While the benefits of giving all your art away for free on Tumblr and deviantART are well known, you still shouldn't give it away for free to an entity that is otherwise profiting, says...
Today’s money breakdown from the Penny Arcade Report: paying for journalism with panty shots
The Penny Arcade Report is a video game news and commentary site run by....well, we'll let you figure it out. Yesterday editor Ben Kuchera ran down the economics of running a website in dollars and cents. Although he's talking about video games, it all applies equally to comics journalism:
