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How To Make Webcomics
by
Brad Guigar,
Scott R. Kurtz, Dave Kellett (Goodreads Author), Kris Straub
For years young, creative men and women have dreamed about making a living from their comic strips. But until recently their only avenue of success was through a syndicate or publisher. Now more and more cartoonists are doing it on their own and self-publishing their comic strips on the web. With the right amount of work, knowledge, and luck, so, too, can you. Scott Kurtz...more
Graphic Novel, 195 pages
Published
March 25th 2008
by Image Comics
(first published January 31st 2008)
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A must read for anyone that is planning on creating, updating and running a webcomic. This book has a lot of good information about the design of the website, the nuts and bolts of comic layout and image layout and lots of ideas on how to interact with the audience of the webcomic. I wish it had more advertising ideas though. The gentlemen who wrote the book also do a podcast at Wecomics Weekly that is terrific. They run some of the most popular webcomics on the internet and have great ideas and...more
I mostly liked this book for the artistic insights and reasonings behind webcomics. Two of the four authors are webcomic creators whose work I follow regularly, and it was fun seeing them interact and teach what they have learned.
That being said, there are two reasons this didn't get a full five stars (in fact, I'd probably give it 3.5 if it were an option):
1) Sloppy editing. Typos left and right in the book made it so that I had to do a lot of re-reading to make sure I was understanding what wa...more
That being said, there are two reasons this didn't get a full five stars (in fact, I'd probably give it 3.5 if it were an option):
1) Sloppy editing. Typos left and right in the book made it so that I had to do a lot of re-reading to make sure I was understanding what wa...more
This is an essential read if you are remotely interested in making a webcomic. When Phil and I got this book, we sort of had an idea of what we wanted to do. Within a week of reading it, Brax was up and running. 3 years later we are still going strong and we just published our first book. We owe pretty much all of it to the practical advice and the encouragement this book and its authors provide.
I've been listening to the (now-defunct) Webcomics Weekly podcast for years and the hosts' humour and camaraderie comes through very nicely in book-form. I'm not planning on starting my own webcomic, but many of the lessons are applicable to anyone considering starting a small business, and the ones that aren't are interesting and amusingly presented.
Great book. To be honest, I only read it because Dave and Scott were involved - for me kind of like reading a book on space shuttle maintenance: interesting, but not really applicable to my life. *grin*
Superbly written overview of webcomics and their production. A must read if you're interested in starting one (like me.)
Excellent book on how to make webcomics (what else?). I come back to it often for reference.
Very detailed information on what to do from ever aspect of the publication of webcomics.
Invaluable information for anyone who wants to start their own webcomic. :)
Technical and inspiring. Some of it is necessarily out of date, but it is still full of lots of really important things to think about and to do.
Useful for any regular, community-based endeavor.
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Dec 18, 2010
Alan
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Second reading.
Quite useful :D
This book is full of information and has really been helpful. It doesn't spend much time addressing the art creation end of things. Instead it focuses more on how to do everything after you've actually created your strip.
I find myself looking to this book repeatedly for reference.
I find myself looking to this book repeatedly for reference.
quite a bit. lots of confirmations, as well. fun read. simply put. but…needs to be re-edited.
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