Resources

This is kind of a glorfied links page.  Its just that I don’t want to put a zillion and one links on my sidebar, so I’m going to keep them all nicely set up here. Huzzah.

Art Resources

Webcomic Creator Resources

Applegeeks – Making Web-comics your day job
- Decent article on the basics of how to start monetizing your webcomic. A little dated, but still decent information.

Webcomic Marketing
- A free blog offering freelance and webcomic marketing advice. Appears to have a heavy focus on conventions, ATM.

Making Comics

Programs

• Adobe Photoshop – Professional program often used for coloring, drawing, composing.  Expensive, but very good.
• Corel Painter – Intuitive digital painting program that replicates traditional media. Expensive. But less expensive than Photoshop.
• Manga Studio – Program specifically for comic and manga creation, includes drawing, painting, layout, toning and lettering tools. Available for low cost or a higher cost professional version.
• Deleter ComicWorks – A competing program to Manga studio from Japan. Somewhat expensive.
• Open Canvas 4.5+ – A reasonably good commercial paint/manga creation tool, reasonably inexpensive.
• Original OpenCanvas – The original opencanvas v 1.1 was freeware. Its still available around the web for free. Less advanced than the commercial version, still works well for some people. Includes a colaborative drawing feature to draw with your friends online.
• Pixia – Free Painting/drawing program. Resembles OpenCanvas.
• Art Rage – Low cost painting/drawing program. Resembles Corel Painter. Demo is free.
• Inkscape - A free, opensource vector based image creation program resembling Adobe Illustrator.
• The Gimp – A free, opensource photoshop alternative.

Marketing Resources

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Webcomics I personally like

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Podcasts worth listening to

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