Today I respond to another discussion thread in the A&S forums, which was primarily about the role of death and dying in all-ages fiction. I spiral it out to cover some general thoughts I keep in mind when writing stories that are meant to be accessible to young people.
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Today I share some thoughts I’ve been having about revisiting the notion of re-prioritizing my projects for the next year. Or perhaps, based on my having recently read Rework
, re-prioritizing for the next few months.
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Today I share some more of my journey into creating ad campaigns for Art & Story, this time highlighting the difference between Project Wonderful and StumbleUpon ads. As we might expect, each has their own benefits and disadvantages.
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Today I follow up on the last episode with some more ways I look for surprises in my characters, this time focusing on their personalities or inner lives, including the following:
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Today I share some of the means I use to look for surprises in my characters when designing them. This first part concerns itself with the visual aspect of character design, including the following:
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Today I start a new series I’m going to call “Isn’t this neat?” where I share a few items of interest that I think are–well, neat. And today it’s a collection of iPhone apps that have helped in my productivity and promotional reach as a working cartoonist.
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I’ve officially jumped into the first Art & Story advertising campaign on Project Wonderful, and I share some thoughts on how I plan to use landing pages, target audiences, and ad design to find more listeners.
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Today I share some thoughts I’ve been kicking around in regards to using mailing lists in your promotional engine. I can honestly say that until now, I never saw the value in them. But after a recent episode of the Spark podcast, as well as a few other news sources, I’m beginning to see how they could be useful to a freelance illustrator, comics creator, or teaching artist. I also share a few thoughts on how providing content with useful information seems to me the only way to use an email campaign.
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In today’s episode I share some of the interesting things we plan to do with video for Kids Read Comics 2011 and extend those thoughts out to wonder about ways to incorporate interactive video in order to share expertise, skills, and strategies for everything we indie creators do.
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Today I respond to some bickering that’s gone on around a recent article posted by Shaennon Garrity, and tie it in with some responses to some other bellyaching going on over the “Teen Paranormal Fiction” genre (and it looks like it will be a genre, sorry!). A plea for cooler heads and less reactionary nonsense.
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