The State of Colleen’s Industry
Thank you to all the loyal readers who have helped make A Distant Soil a success online. This graph shows the huge jump in traffic and visitor counts between 2009 and 2010. I had a website for 10 years...
View ArticleThe Barry Lyga Graphic Novel That Dare Not Speak its Name: and conversation...
Looks something like this: I finished this up weeks and weeks late. The rest of the creative team is saintly, because I am not dead. I have corrections on about a dozen pages, none of them major, but...
View ArticleThe State of Colleen’s Industry From Print to Web: It’s working, and I didn’t...
Been doing a lot of behind the scenes conferencing with some webcomickers, and crunching my numbers for A Distant Soil. The news is all very good, and while I don’t have as much time to do deeper...
View ArticleNo gags, no soap operas: Webcomics that got passed over.
As mentioned by many of you in comments on my last post, most of the popular webcomics are gag strips and soap operas. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. But a lot of other really good stuff...
View ArticleGo Home Paddy
Celebrating Irish Heritage Month, another graphic novel about Irish immigration is available online. Go Home Paddy by John A. Walsh: Paddy Brennan is just off the boat. Things in Boston are not that...
View ArticleCostumes in comics: If I draw it once, I have to draw it 1,000 times…
I was a big fan of shows like Battlestar Galactica (the first one), and obviously, that costume sensibility is all over my old stuff. I guess it’s a bit masochistic to post old art like this! This...
View ArticleWork is Good
Here’s something I wrote on another board for a good buddy, Danny Donovan, who is dealing with the sometimes uncomfortable cost of moving forward when others can’t. Danny has a new project over at DC’s...
View ArticleThe Truth is Out There
…or you could just keep reading my blog. Just kidding. Tad Crawford’s books are full of legal info with handy forms. If I would just stop putting this stuff on a blog for free, I might be a richer...
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