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good ideaz!

modern tales is doing something cool here:

http://www.talkaboutcomics.com/blog/?p=382


but i don't think i can promise to keep up with their once per week submission policy...

Wondering what places online comics can be put, besides a personal website of course, where they will be read... Right now I have a personal website and an account at deviant art, and i also upload stuff at myspace. I just signed up for a keenspace (or whatever they're calling it nowadays) account, ...

the "standard size" for print is 6 pt Good lord, 6pt? That's tiny! I'm amazed to hear that (though perhaps it varies depending on the font, and whether you're using all caps like in traditional comics). I do agree though, best to eyeball it and see what looks right. yeah... who knows what font is b...

the "standard size" for print is 6 pt, according to "DIGITAL PREPRESS FOR COMIC BOOKS" but that can differ with different font styles... I like to go a little bigger than that for print stuff, and WAY bigger for online stuff. but it's all relative. just play around with different sizes and see what ...

it's something that even the best web-cartoonists out there don't seem to be thinking of...

i saw a cool comic once where the text got bigger when you moved your mouse over it.

hey all this may be too late but i wanted to say that you don't need a tablet to create tapered lines, all you need to do is go to window>brush libraries> artistic sample/ then you can use the tapered brushes. i actually created my own brush set similar to those ones to draw the following http://ww...

Thanks for the info, frogtumor. Hope your medical problem gets worked out soon... Hi Tim! For a while I went through a phase where I was using Flash to turn bitmaps into vector graphics. It was a lot of fun. I've been focusing on plain old non-computer graphics recently, but I'm startin to get the h...

thats some interesting advice. Thanks!!

Save it for when I actually come out with something self published!!

yeah. I'm not the greatest artist in the world, that's for sure. Still have a LOOOOONG way to go before I am even a productive cartoonist. But I have been to a four year art school and spent two years studying Japanese painting as a research student after that. So I'm pretty much familiar with non-b...

Update:

My next published work is coming out sometime this month or next. From Eros Comics. Title (don't laugh) = Blow Job #12. Believe it. And buy it!!

Looking for a good book on pen & ink technique. Any suggestions?

yeah, but that is a little bit different from what I'm talking about. I've been looking at stuff and studying it for years. But it was all passive. At the time I posted the first message in this thread, I actually flat out used someone else's layout and character placing for the first time. Like I s...

there you go again, always talking about people "doubling up"....

Neil Cohn wrote:That's how the mac instant messaging program ichat looks actually

WOW! That is cool.

Neil Cohn wrote:There was also a "comic" chat program awhile back called ComicChat. Anyone ever try it out?

Never tried it. Will later. Thanks!

wow. that's really some cool stuff up there. neat. A little bit removed from the spartan topic of "what is a comic," I would PREFER to have some sort of illustration involved. Not saying that this is because comics necessarily have to have illustrations or anything. I just like illustrations. The wa...

Oh, stupid me. For some reason I was thinking tv shows. Ha ha. Could we chalk this one up to me being such a genius that little things escape me? Like Einstein not being able to dress himself or whatever? Please? I've got a lot riding on this!!

whatever it is, it sounds interesting though...

whoah, i have no idea what you are talking about...

the elipsis? in science fiction shows? ....what is that?

is THAT a comic? ha ha. Hey, seriously, though, wouldn't that be a cool idea to do some sort of comics jam where we make our own little avatars and just put them up? it would be like half forum half jam. people would be all like, "hey, you got your jam in my forum! No, you got your forum in my jam!!...

then you need to get out in the sun!! don't be like me, all huddled over a computer listening to crazy music and grunting every now and then!!

cool !!

what is WCE? Don't make fun of me for not knowing, you kim-chi eater.
(that isn't a racist joke. seriously.)

seriously, though, whether it is or is not a comic is a moot point. Moot, I tell you. The important thing is whether or not it has any interesting elements that can be used by cartoonists. I kind of think this conversation or discussion style of comics could be cool. Especially if the writing was re...