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I gather Adobe Photoshop can do computer-generated tapering lines, though I haven't had the chance to try it myself. In the vector paths of Photoshop you can edit points and curves much like in Illustrator. Once you decide to stroke the path, Photoshop 7 has an option to "appply pressure" which if ...

PNG is a great format, a lot better than GIF. But do all web browsers support it these days? Not mine ... i had download the mentioned cube image and open it up in a different program. I do have a recent version of explore too boot. To me, it would seem like an extra hassle that normal web viewers ...

While Doc MacDougal made a good point that most print comics use the text in the 'less than' 'more than' symbols <>, let us look over the other options too. I could just use Arabic characters in the font but I want the reader to know what the person is saying. I could use subtitles but I don't want ...

You know, just recently I was having a conversation with the guy who was a hunter. Being a web person myself (both professionally and artistically) he asked me to look at his hunting website and tell him what my opinion was. The index took five minutes to load. He had three or four columns of text a...

Cool comic Russ

I feel like this subject keeps coming up in various places like a broken record. I cannot remember what I said exactly last time, but I guess I have to say I like them both ... I am an artist who draws comics. I have done them for the web and for print (each with small distribution). There are some ...

Welcome Raymond and Marx (although Mr. Raymond is a fellow I have know for quite a while now, good to seee him at this forum because this is the real comic conversations take place!)

Well yey another week with Your Comic Here being late. This time it is REALLY late. Perhaps, I need somebody to take over webmastering or maybe on of those automated site update things. I tried an auto thing once and had no idea what I was doing. I guess I like to get my hands dirty in the html and ...

I think the only way to gauge just how many readers you have is to have a subscription service on your site. That will tell you just how many people actually bought your comic. And that is the point. I remember an article in Nexus back when it started publishing that they get more mail from differen...

Greg Stephens wrote:

losttoy wrote:Drawing on paper, if I make a mistake I end up getting discouraged.

I use an eraser.

An eraser does not really help during the inking process ... and don't even get me started on white-out.

I first start with deciding the layout of panels and text. I only draw really rough pencils to determine what I want on the page. I then scan my pencils in the computer to Photoshop, where I use them as a template to draw over using seperate layers. At this point I jump into the "inking" stage, draw...

It has been another one of the weeks where the days just fly by ...

The newest Your Comic Here is up. This week is a comic from Steve Langille. Due to some techincal errors, I have decided to keep Tim's comic up on the index for an extra week.

Keep the submissions coming!

When I started these 24 Minute Comics, I wanted to post it on a weekly schedule on Wednesdays. It looks like it is turning out to be posted whenever I got the time. Anyways, the newest 24 Minute Comic is up. I do not have any other completed comics waiting to be posted; when I had started I already ...

Just in time for Easter ... Zwol's very own Tim Mallos does Your Comic Here. Nuff said.

God ... I am going to be busy forever. I have had to work on cooridinating Comic Awareness Week, plan for Ann Arbor Book Festival, plan the Michigan Web Comics meeting, design and post fliers for my wife, not to mention all my real life duties with groceries, taking care of my daughter, pay bill, et...

Yes, everytime I go to Zwol it does not automaticly sign me in, in fact it usualy takes me three times to try to login in and when it does I do not get the new posts since it counted as logging in the first tries.

Good luck Greg.

The Lansing Community College (LCC) Comics Coalition (LC4) and Michigan Web Comics presents ... http://miwebcomics.rzero.com/caw/images/unclesandersSM.gif Comics Awareness Week is a non-profit, grass roots movement to help dispel the myths that currently deter potential readers of comic books, raise...

There is that old saying ... in Michigan there are only two seasons. Winter and construction. Anyhow, if you are going to be in Michigan next weekend, Michigan Web Comics is meeting in Brighton. We would love to have you come. About your 24 minute comic .. I love it! I have a little daughter now and...

You know, I love drawing this comic and I think it is the best work I have done yet. However, I think I need to take a short break to get some things done. I have some commitments I need to fullfill. Unlike Greg, I will not disapear for a year, just a week (two at the tops) so I can get some things ...

Another week another Your Comic Here. This week's comic is by diary comic artist Will Dawbarn (aka Wilbur). I wish I had the disapline to do a daily comic like this guy. Check it out! Next week is a comic from Zwol's very own Tim Mallos. Stay tuned.

cool comic, Veleno. Although it just felt like it needed more to the story. I guess that kind of thing is for the 24 hour comic. Please make sure to show us that after the 24th.

I also show each comic strip to my wife before even sending it to Greg. Funny how all three of us can miss these things. I will take some time today to make those corrections (and Greg will have my fourth strip too). Thanks Russ for the good eye. The recent strip I have been working on (the fourth o...

Definately food for thought for all us non-superhero comic artists. While I think he is right on for print comics, I also think this differs with web comics. At least in my observation, the most popular web comics are non-superhero because the web is accessable to everybody to any genre or media.

I have been awfully busy lately ... this last 24 Minute comic was only 15 minutes since I kept on getting interrupted by phone calls. Never did get to finish it, but it still works. It is also of note that this is my first posted comic using a nice caligraphy pen instead of a disposible kind. Other ...