Negative Space: artists
- Artist responds to Bill Gates
- Artist Wiley Wiggins responds to Bill Gates’s mischaracterization of copyright reform.
- Asking Artists for Sketches at Conventions
- Wayne Wong’s description of the dos and donts of getting sketches at American comic conventions.
- The Comic Ground
- As of November 5, 2020, the Comic Ground has been shut down.
- Comics as a career
- The text-only archive of career information on Cerebus the Gopher. Many professionals have made their advice public on the net.
- Preface
- The artist is the creator of beautiful things.
- Tools for Comics Creators
- Tools for comic book creators, including the “Comic Ground” collaboration area, the Gutters and Closure mailing lists, and some retailing ideas.
More Information
- A Self-Publishing Comics Primer
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“One of the coolest thing about the comics world is that it doesn’t dismiss self-publishers the way the lit world does. Maybe because it’s a less pretentious field, or a newer one, or that drawing talent is more quickly discerned at a glance. Certainly it helps that one of the more prominent awards and grants, the Xeric, is open only to self-publishers.”
- Dave Sim’s advice on self-publish comics
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“Take two weeks and decide to do a page a day; pencilled, inked and lettered. If you miss a day, look at what you did instead. Whatever caused you to miss doing a page that day is an impediment to your career. Look at the impediment. Look at the work. Make a choice.”
