Business

The Online Journalism Review has a great article on the plight of Online Newspaper Syndicates and their failure to make a splash in online comics. Continue Reading →

Is it webcomic Nirvana or the final sign of Armageddon?

There aren’t many details yet, but Cafe Press plans to offer CD and Books for print on demand.  Like many other things on the Internet, it could be a replay of the California Gold Rush of the Mid 1800s. The only ones who made a killing were merchants selling equipment and tools, not would be prospectors.

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Over at Savant, Harris O’Malley has an article on lessons learned from exhibiting at Alternative Press Expo. Exhibiting can be hard work, possibly even more so for online ‘toonists who need to think creatively about how to present the webtoon in offline, physical space. Continue Reading →

Dirk Deppey, over at TCJ’s Journalista!, has an entry on the legal aftermath of the demise of Stan Lee’s online site for comics. Continue Reading →

Check out Breaking Out by Jeff Stevenson over at Digital Webbing.

I’ve put together this series of articles to share my insanity……to, umm, share advice and motivational words on “breaking in” that I’ve managed to mish-mash together from books, websites, comic creators, editors, business professionals, teachers, little kids that are wise beyond their years, and even that guy on the street downtown with the cardboard sign that states he knows how to unlock the secret, universe-altering potential of liverwurst. Continue Reading →

Clay Shirky, weblog A-list type guy, has a post up about how the distribution of attention/money/etc in a system where there is maximum consumer choice and relatively low-cost entry for producers is a power law. Continue Reading →

Another article by Barry Smith of Rocketbox, this time on tax tips for cartoonists:

Well gang, as tax time approaches I thought it would be a good time to share tax tips with all of you who pursue web cartooning as a profession or as a hobby. Continue Reading →