Cartooning advice for beginners, DRM-free PDF strategy, and storyline-driven comic strips

Comic Lab

Great news! We have a DISCOUNT CODE for Bonjoro — exclusively for our $5+ Patreon backers! NEXT: Dave and Brad drill deep on the ubiquitous DRM-free PDF. We discuss what it is, why we use it, and how to best implement it. THEN: We grapple with one of the great mysteries of life — If we could time-travel back to talk to ourselves in our 20s, what advice would we give? FINALLY: If you're doing a comic strip that incorporates a storyline, you should be doing a longform comic instead.

BUT FIRST... As the rest of his family is waiting for him to come home to start a camping trip in the Poconos, Brad makes a mistake that has him sitting in his bank's branch office for several hours, sweating bullets.

Show notes

• 00:00 — Brad gets phished, but good.
• 19:05 — Bonjoro DISCOUNT CODE
• 23:40 — DRM-free PDFs
• 37:27 — What advice would you give to 20-year-old you?
• 50:55 — If you're doing a comic strip that incorporates a storyline, you should be doing a longform comic instead.

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Brad Guigar is the creator of Evil Inc and the editor of Webcomics.com

Dave Kellett is the creator of Sheldon and Drive.

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Brad Guigar is the creator of Evil Inc and the author of The Webcomics Handbook. Dave Kellett is the creator of Sheldon and Drive.