Makeshift Musings and Comic Book Bliss: Web Money and the Creative Mind

There’s been a lot of talk about webcomics as a business lately. More than ever before, webcomics are sustaining themselves and their authors through their hard work and promotion. Exciting times seem to be right around the corner for the industry as a whole.

But if you’re not a webcomic guru with tens of thousands of readers, what then?

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Makeshift Musings and Comic Book Bliss: A Buffer Against The Ravages Of The Web

Last column I stressed the importance of starting, of making that push and getting the momentum to start your own comic project. If you don’t start, then you’ll never know what’s possible. But, there’s no need to throw caution completely out the window.

For the love of all that’s holy, create a buffer of strips/pages BEFORE you start posting them on the web.

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Makeshift Musings and Comic Book Bliss: Making the Leap

Over the last few columns we’ve talked about building your plot, creating a cast of characters, and we’ve been moving forward at each step to the real deal: writing the comic. All these pieces of the foundation have been laid and now it’s time to build on top of it with our real story. It’s time to stop analyzing and start doing.

You sit down relaxed, all ready to write Chapter 1 Page 1 and then…

And then…

…and then…

Fear sets in.

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Makeshift Musings and Comic Book Bliss by Jim Zubkavich

Physical Connections In The Electronic World

Summer is here and the convention season is upon us. It’s time to strain and pull ourselves away from our computers and hopefully make some sort of real human contact with the people that we’ve learned about through e-mails, forum posts and web pages. These are webcomics and comic communities bringing people with similar interests together, and showing quite clearly that most costumes look ridiculous on the average human being.
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Makeshift Musings and Comic Book Bliss: Hollywood and Free Comics To The Rescue

Hollywood and Free Comics To The Rescue

In the sky, it’s a bird… it’s a plane!

No, it’s just Hollywood obsessing over another trend, mashing it into the ground with well intentioned overexposure all for the sake of the almighty dollar.In the sky, it’s a bird… it’s a plane!

No, it’s just Hollywood obsessing over another trend, mashing it into the ground with well intentioned overexposure all for the sake of the almighty dollar.
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Look Who’s Reading Comics Now

In my column this month, I waxed philosophical and talked about an idealistic comic industry based on strong stories and diversity throughout the marketplace in the stores and online. It’s a beautiful concept and although it warms my heart, it’s definitely not the reality at this stage. So beyond the sequential paradise that I’ve envisioned, let’s start down the road that can lead us to that brighter place, shall we?

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