What matters to me is that they have [my] books and they love them

And they'll tell other people about it. Pretty good talk by Neil Gaiman on the future of publishing. Another cheer for the power of sharing stuff on the internet, but it gets really interesting around the 15-minute mark, where he makes his big case for being like Dandelions; or in other words, throw little projects [...]

Pitching and Editing Graphic Novels

If you've wondered about the process of pitching a graphic novel and what editors are looking for, the latest episode of +Comics Are Great! is for you. Calista Brill, Senior Editor at First Second Books, provides tons of useful insights on the world of graphic novel publishing. Reshared post from +Comics Are Great! What makes a [...]

Comics Are Great! 75 – Editing Graphic Novels with Calista Brill

Editing, writing, graphic novels, First Second Books, and more! I’m excited to talk with Calista Brill, Senior Editor at First Second Books, about the entire process of developing and publishing a graphic novel. What does a good pitch look like? What qualities are editors looking for in a graphic novel proposal? Once the book is [...]

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How a Graphic Novel is Born and Raised

http://www.insideadog.com.au/blog/how-graphic-novel-born-and-raised If you've ever wondered how publishing a graphic novel works, this is the post to read. +Raina Telgemeier gives a great step-by-step, but a key idea is this:  Oh, sure, I had my outline to work off of…but for me, thumbnailing IS writing. I think that's true for a lot of us. We write visually. [...]

Comics Are Great! 73 – Finding Your Knitting with Kris Straub

Finding your venue, loving parody, Broodhollow, Kris Straub, and more! Stick to your knitting. Specialize. Find your niche. Operate in your wheelhouse. And a zillion other clichés that get thrown around. It’s been accepted as common wisdom that one should find the one thing they have some talent in and pursue that to the end. [...]

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Comics Are Great! 72 – Living Well On Less with C. Spike Trotman and Laurianne Uy

Finances, Poorcraft, Polterguys, Mini-Comics, and more! The hard fact of it is, few people make a ton of money at this comics jazz. And while we’ve talked about creating various streams of income in past shows, we’ve yet to talk about how to get more out of less of our financial resources! We’re joined this [...]

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Comics Are Great! 70 – Skype Author Visits with Stephen McCranie

Author visits, marketing your book, Mal and Chad, and more! Whether you’re self-publishing or working with a publisher, a cold hard reality we cartoonists face is getting the word out about your book. This time I’m joined by author Stephen McCranie for a discussion on how he used a special promotion on his site offering [...]

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Paperback-Style Comics

This Christmas I received this 1982 paperback comic book (graphic novel, to use current terminology) of repurposed and redesigned Batman stories. I have always adored the cheap paperback collections of comics and comic strips. Always felt they provided that comforting experience one gets from curling up with a nice book. No preciousness of an "absolute" [...]

Reflecting on 2012, Planning for 2013 with an On-Air Hangout!

The +Lean Into Art Cast returns for another on-air hangout tonight at 9:15 pm ET right here on Google Plus and at http://comicsaregreat.tv. How does one reflect on a year's work in a useful and meaningful way? What thinking strategies might we use to identifying our goals for the next year? How can we organize ourselves [...]

The Comics Industry has many discrete worlds, so what are you gonna do about it?

The Comics Industry has many discrete worlds, so what are you gonna do about it? http://stuffsaidshow.com/?p=543 A really fun and relaxed discussion with +Dave Roman on the latest episode of the Stuff Said podcast. Tons of great stuff nested in this casual conversation about Dave's career, but one of my big takeaways was something that Dave [...]

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