TEST. It’s the weekend, when I’m supposed to post story extras and stuff. Trying to keep up with that. Those of you not interested in this, come back on Monday. I’m working on slew of informative articles that ought to be right up your alley (collectives, adding PW to ad chains, world pages, website extras [...]

I had commissions to finish today, and more editing to do otherwise. I WILL get back to useful (AKA, applicable info, instead of food for thought) articles as soon as possible. Until then, enjoy the next little section of my college thesis, completed May 2008. ———— If therefore, as stated, comics are a significant art [...]

I got distracted doing other comic work tonight to find time to write an article about the benefits of being part of a webcomic collective. Here’s the next chunk of my thesis, still from Part I An Explanation of the Art of Comics: ——————- In order to understand where webcomics are today as an art [...]

This is the introduction to my college thesis titled The Art of Webcomics. It was written for people who did not read comics, who thought comics were for kids, that comics were not a true art form and a waste of time, and who had never heard of the term “webcomic.” So, it was written [...]

EDIT: before you start to read this, I should warn you.  This is a more heated and opinionated article that’s been boiling in my head in response to a couple forum posts blasting the display off webcomics off the front page. I’m far too passive to go and post this there, but I wanted to [...]

A common question I see on TWCL forums is “How well does Stumble Upon work?” After many threads and innumerable responses to the question, here is my take: Stumble Upon works well if you’ve got connections, but then again, that is how it works at ANY networking site.  If you don’t have anyone to network [...]

After the whole ADSDAQ fiasco (the network kicked off just about every webcomic site), many webcomickers were left floundering, forced to try out other ad networks in the hopes of making as much as they once did. Sadly, today’s post isn’t all too encouraging. Adtegrity is an ad network that boasts a 100% fill rate. [...]

In the desire to spread the word about my comic, I have been experimenting with various ways to network in the hope that 1) it would be successful and 2) I could share the results with you. Here is the result of my first networking attempt, using Deviant Art as a means of free advertising [...]

On the SpiderForest forums, one member asked if signing up on webcomic toplists and coming up with vote incentives was worth it. By worth it, I mean “does the effort bring enough readers to make up for the time spent?”  The short answer is most definitely YES. Toplists are a popularity contest. Unpopular/unknown comics won’t [...]

I’m going to start with the obvious: how animation works in advertising, and why it is used. Animation is, in this case, MULTIPLE ads inside of one ad. I say multiple because obvious, animation is time-based. Multiple frames show inside a single area, dependent upon time. So, animation therefore allows you to insert more information [...]