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- Kellett Interviewed on “Art & Story”April 12 2008
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Dave talks about how he creates a “Sheldon” strip, why the strip is family-friendly, why he “chose” comic strips in the first place, and even about the “How To Make Webcomics” book during a 1-hour interview at “Art & Story”sheldoncomics.com>. (Note: Interview starts at the 10-minute point in the audio file.)
- Indie Comic is now chainsawsuitApril 2 2008
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Remember Indie Comic from the old Halfpixel? It’s got its own site now and a new name! Chainsawsuit.com. Go check it out, it updates MWF.
From a How To Make Webcomics perspective, it’ll be interesting to see how a new strip develops and what popularity it attains.
From a me perspective, I don’t care about that. They’re ideas I have nowhere else to put, so in the spirit of webcomics, you get to read them!
- Dave Kellett @ Wizard World LA (March 14-16)March 13 2008
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Come on out to the Wizard World show, running this Friday through Sunday at the huge LA Convention Center: Dave Kellett of “Sheldon” will be appearing all three days at table 2820.
Dave will be signin’ and sellin’ and chattin’ and high-fivin’. There will be free, awesome sketches in your Sheldon book purchase, and all Sheldon Original Strip Art is $25 off the normal price!
Don’t forget to ask for your 2008 Commemorative Wizard World High-Five: we’re only bringing 98!
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- THE BOOK IS HERE!March 13 2008
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Our book How To Make Webcomics is now available in stores! You can pick up a copy from your local comic book store, or get one from any one of our online stores:
Buying directly from us benefits us more — the proceeds are split equally. Plus, you can get signatures and sketches in your book if you buy through one of us!
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, you can be one of them.
Dave Kellett (Sheldon), Brad Guigar (Evil Inc.), Kris Straub (Starslip Crisis), and Scott Kurtz (PvP) take you on a guided tour of everything you need to know to make, post and profit from your own online comics with this 200-page book from Image Comics.
- WWQ&A: Signing your workFebruary 14 2008
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Another question!
Ahoy, gentlefolk.
Just listening to the “Ding!” Podcast, and I figured I’d throw in on the subject of signing your work: back when JjAR had just started drawing Jump Leads, I showed the art to some friends. One of my friends recommended getting JjAR to sign his work - not as an “I made this!” marking but as a security measure against art theft. Now this may well end up being a moot point as the print edition doesn’t feature the signature on the individual pages, but that’s why we ended up going with signed work.
Have a good’n,
~Ben
www.jump-leads.comI don’t remember if I mentioned it before, but I think a signature, small and inside the last panel, can actually act as more than a theft deterrent or a proof of credit. In “Starslip” I have no need to put a signature and I never had before, but to me it means a couple things:
1. It makes the strip look more professional. I think the strip reads differently with my last name scribbled on it. I think it looks less amateur.
2. It indicates ownership and pride. This goes with (1), but it’s important. I’ll come back to this idea in a second.
3. It’s actually a punchline cue! Most interestingly, the way I used to read the signatures in newspaper comics was almost the same way you receive a laugh track on a sitcom. It means, visually, “I’m done, here, that was