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How Many Syndicated Features?
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What percentage of your work makes the cut?
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Do you take issue with "webcomics"? I do.
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I wrote a commentary on my blog about the contest. It's been interesting to follow from the outside but also hearing from those on the inside. Thanks to everyone who submitted and shared their experience in these forums.
http://blog.zingerding.co...
Yeah, Buni is definitely my fave of the bunch.
That's not just clever, but a great way to use your natural talent to get your message across in the medium you know best.
Hm, to clarify my post above, I'm not suggesting birds are a limited subject. Anything can be done with birds or snails, etc. What I'm saying is that creativity in cartooning needs to take the world of birds into a place where us human readers can...
The Far Side pulled in a sense of continuity with reoccuring characters, though not in the traditional sense. They didn't have names or narratives that were followed over time.
However, there were the usual suspects: nerd boys, ladies with horn-r...
I think they look great reduced for the web. It creates a gray tone, which is the point in the first place. Cool technique!
And I really enjoyed the strips too. The writing and characters are solid!
This touches on my criticism. Birds... meh. But it's not so much that I personally don't care about birds or that others may also. (In fact, one of my main characters is a bird.)
It's about establishing personalities in your characters. You've es...
Thanks for the resources! I'm going to check 'em out and see what I come up with.
Every year, Editor & Publisher puts out a syndicate directory:
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/resources/syndicate.jsp
It's $25, and you can order at that link.
It has in it far more than you will ever want to know.
It'll also give you...
you can check each syndicates corporate site, they keep lists:
http://www.unitedfeatures.com/?title=C:Comics
http://www.amuniversal.com/ups/features/feature_list.htm#_strips
http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/comics.htm
Does anyone have an approximate idea of how many currently syndicated strips are out there? Panels, legacy strips, whatever. I'm just looking for a guestimate, if not something near accurate.
I didn't enter but congrats!
Here's a Zingerding blog post discussing some of the pros and cons of this contest. Many of the same points are discussed in-depth here in the forum but this post breaks things down pretty well.
Is Amazon's Comic Strip Superstar Contest For You?
I've been thinking about this lately, and I've been beginning to stop using the term webcomic, but rather use the term comic. I don't think the distribution matters, at least not to me. I do a comic. I consider myself a cartoonist, and to me it do...
I work a lot like Norm out of necessity. I have so little time, that I can't spend time thumbing pages and writing a lot. But what I do actually do is think about the current strip a lot during the course of the day - in the shower, on the way to ...
I think it is a genuine talent search, however it's going about a completely different path.
Using the American Idol analogy (which this very much is like), it's the difference between going on the aforementioned show and auditioning for Broadway...
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