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Must read: David Harper on the diminishing role of the comics artist at the...

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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...

Comics are great….except when they aren’t

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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...

Must read: Ryan Estrada on making and selling ebooks

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Webcartoonist Ryan Estrada (Plagued, Aki Alliance) has a tutorial complete with widget on how to make an ebook out of a webcomic, and...

The cost of art theft: from Spike Lee to Rachel Dukes

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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...

Must read: Spike’s Everything I Know

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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...

NYCC ’13 Panel Recap: From Creator to Consumer

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I have a number of panel recaps to write up for you all, so you should expect them to occupy the next few days...

Breaking news: Cartoonist gets paying job!!!!

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The unthinkable has happened. A cartoonist has been hired for a job that pays a living wage. Instead of heating up old shoe leather...

That time that comics didn’t die

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For some reason, this post I wrote in February 2012 popped up on my feed; it was called Comics Crisis: Doujinshi Nation and at...

Keith Knight offers new subscription service

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Even as Matt Bors has been making the rounds telling us how editorial cartooning is dead (which is it) enterprising cartoonists such as Ruben...

Jim Lee asks the hard question: top artists of the last five years?

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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...

Note to artists: “Don’t give it away!”

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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...

Today’s money breakdown from the Penny Arcade Report: paying for journalism with panty shots

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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:

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