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The Web Comics Company podcast was a show by a group UK web and indie comic creators who wanted to discuss the methods, culture and business of creating comics. It contains a wealth of information you can use to create your own comics, or improve comics you are already in the process of creating.
This week, Zoë, Matt and Luke Surl discuss the many reasons why you might want to end your comic; and also why most of them are the wrong reasons. Comics and people mentioned this week: Supermassive Black Hole A* Evil Inc. / Greystone Inn Sarah Zero Ctrl+Alt+Del Luke Pearson Walt Disney Previous Web Comics Company […]
Every artist thinks about quitting at some point. When you are just starting out and there’s little or no attention being paid to your work, it can seem like an exercise in futility to keep making comics. Why spend hours of your life on something nobody cares about? At this point, quitting seems like the […]
This week, with Matt unable to attend, Luke, Luke and Zoe discuss the idea that you need special equipment to be a professional comic artist. What do you need? What don’t you need? What makes life easier if you can get it? All this is discussed, plus other things too! Comics, and other things, mentioned […]
Following on from our preview blog last Monday, the Web Comics Company, sans Matt, discusses whether anyone should care about what other artists think of them. Is it important at all? Is there a point where it is important, and does that trail off as you develop as an artist? Listen in and find out […]
This is a Preview Blog, an initial discussion about what we plan to discuss in the next recording from one of the team. Hopefully you have an opinion! Leave a comment and we’ll try and include it in the ‘cast. How good a cartoonist are you? In this strangle little world of independent cartooning that […]
This week, the Web Comics Company splits the podcast into two parts. Part one discusses print-based revenue streams, such as books and art commissions, while part two looks at digital revenue streams, such as ebooks, advertising and try before you buy models. Comics and websites mentioned this week are: Gunnerkrigg Court The Humble Indie Bundle […]
This week, Matt gets replaced by a robot from Doctor Who but the Web Comics Company soliders on regardless. We’re discussing the fine line between inspiration and copying. Where does one become the other? Listen in and find out! Listener contributions come from Ben Chamberlain of Supermassive Black Hole A* and Stef Marcinkowski of Sarah Zero. […]
Episode 3 preview blog, by Zoë Kirk-Robinson. Listen to the episode here. We all have people or media that has inspired us; it’s something fundamental to human nature. Even going back to antiquity, the Iliad has fanfiction and there are responses to ancient Greek plays that themselves got plays written in response. We take what […]
This week, the team is missing Matt but they manage to solider on regardless! The topic is “are comic colleges any use?“(click the link to read the preview blog) and Luke Healy is in the command chair. Listener contributions come from Dave, and Ben Chamberlain of Supermassive Black Hole A*. Comics mentioned in this week’s […]
Season 1, Episode 2 Preview blog – by Luke H. Listen to the episode here. Cartooning programs have been appearing in various places across America over the last decade or so. From courses in The School of Visual Arts in New York or the Savannah College of Art and Design, to specialist schools like the […]