Our How To book The Complete Guide to Self-Publishing Comics is on a top 5 list of books every aspiring creator should read on one of our favorite sites Geek and Sundry! Seriously guys, this is an incredible list! We're in the company of books like Understanding Comics and Will Eisner's Comic's and Sequential Art. We [...]
After a while, any setting can grow stale, especially if most of your scenes take place in the same kind of place. Variety adds interest, and can make an ordinary scene stand out as something special. Try and think of different places in the region(s) of your comic. For instance, what kind of districts are [...]
One of the first things you need to do when setting out to create a comic is know exactly what format your comic is going to use. This includes everything from size, shape, whether it will be in color or black and white, even whether it will be printed or featured exclusively online-- these [...]
A lot of people ask how we make our comics. The truth is, our kind of collaboration is pretty unusual in comics - we both write, both draw, both color, and both letter. And while we’re starting to do more digital drawing these days, we wanted to show the way these issues of [...]
For us, there is no part of a comic more important than the story. No amount of great art or snazzy dialogue will make up for a story that you don’t enjoy, or characters you don’t care about. A good storyteller has to have solid ideas, plan ahead, and be willing to do whatever [...]
