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Go forth and make Kate comfortably wealthy.
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OH BOY!
The first round of merchandise updates has hit the shelves! Click it up, head on down!
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beatonna:

OH BOY!


The first round of merchandise updates has hit the shelves! Click it up, head on down!

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for fun, Beric Dondarrion from the George RR Martin books.  Maybe I will draw more later.  Warm up sketches!
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for fun, Beric Dondarrion from the George RR Martin books. Maybe I will draw more later. Warm up sketches!

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my sister is coming for a visit tomorrow, but we probably won’t make comics. Well, you never know…
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my sister is coming for a visit tomorrow, but we probably won’t make comics. Well, you never know…

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Be Excellent To Each Other

Kate Beaton has a manifesto… And lots of rad cartoonists for you to follow on Tumblr.

beatonna:

And so with those immortal Bill and Ted words:

Today I was sad to see comics posted without credit somewhere for the millionth time, and aired my frustration on twitter.  It gets me down sometimes, even though we all know what the internet is like!  Credit the artists whose comics you post! They will love you all the days of your life, for a simple gesture.  

But anyway, like all things, it goes both ways: there is bad out there, and there is good out there.  The internet is a big old place with many awesome things and people, so let’s take some time to celebrate something we all love! Comics!

I asked those who followed me to send me their comic, so we can spread the love, and people can get some new eyeballs on their creations.  There were a lot of responses!  I copied them here for you, and encourage you to take a look.  The list is long, but perhaps you will find a new favorite, who knows!  Bookmark it and come back when you are ready for more.  If you have a comic yourself, maybe you would like to add it in the notes and comments!

And let us all be as excellent to each other as we can.  

PS I hope all the links work.

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 Well… *shuffles feet awkwardly* this is mine anyways…  http://procrastoonation.com

We have done TastefulComics.com for a year and a bit now, Bear and Robot guy knows who we are (but no-one else)

I make a fantasy adventure comic.  ecadiaonline.comuf.com/live/ 

 I heart iheardbutterfly.com so hard.

 sweatshirtweathercomics.tumblr.com

i just started!! Rgbfame.com

Doris has a comic. It hasn’t updated in almost a year). I always enjoyed reading it (husband bias). inagasaki.zaerion.com


I art for the comic Walking on Broken Glass! brokenglasscomic.com Yay for the goodness of comics! :D

It is a very nice thing you are doing. twitpic.com/8oo8co (aw shucks)

celebrating goodness, yeah! soyourlifeismeaningless.com

I only do a weekly comic strip for my uni’s paper atm, but have aspirations of doing a graphic novel someday: imaginaryanomaly.wordpress.com

I do a very personal journal comic here: negativespace-comic.com 

I have one at superdoomedplanet.com/comic/ .

It’s not exactly a new comic, but my readership is still pretty small. northwindcomic.com

thatssokraven.com It’s done but it’s good!

This comic isn’t mine, I just like it: surrealistobituaries.com/content/

Well, if you insist. kaitou.org/comic/

I sometimes do silly things on my site, like Dr. Werewolf: xyourizoutman.com/dr-werewolf

Mine’s at conniptions.org. Also has music.

Oh hey! I have a webcomic: quiddlebee.com. It’s pretty lonely though :(

iheartbutterfly.com :)

 I’m probably too late, but this one’s mine: hipsters-comic.com - Hipsters Vs. Dinosaurs

chudwuffer.com - a lil old, but about monsters as 2nd class citizens, struggling to get by.

Mine’s about a year and a half old about an evil overlord who sucks at being evil ravenfell.com

Brother Comics! superbrophybrothers.com

I’m way late, but I draw this one: urbanwildcomic.com

 hey! I do Wighthouse, about a guy in a haunted lighthouse. wighthousecomic.com thanks for caring ‘bout comics!

Better late than never. :) little-vampires.com

Ok then here’s one! Thanks for doing this, it is both fun and exciting! Aversionbureau.com

2 more for you: leadpaintcomics.com (ours) & elmsfieldcomics.com (phillip andrews) 

Knifestone.net! Funtime YA fantasy adventures! Also pirates!

Too late for the top ten, but posting anyways! seumeu.tumblr.com 

in that case, my comic is about me being a new dad! Altho I’m currently recalling things from my childhood christophercomic.com

I have a dramedy comic about two opposite best friends! bff.nematodeinspace.com

2ndlthavoc.deviantart.com/gallery/323251…

i’m tryin to start mine, katiebluebird.com/comics_and_doo… #weee

My comic about a 50-year old lady detective and her man-candy booty short wearing rival: handj.thewebcomic.com

it’s a cartoon, not a comic, but we’re proud of it. youtube.com/user/HatAndTie…

I don’t update enough. davezissou.tumblr.com

well if others are still posting… here’s one I started, but never really got together gibberishparrot.tumblr.com

I just started Rough Start roughstartcomic.tumblr.com for school and because I love comics and have since I was 4

haha, keep them coming you say? May as well :) mrfactorycomic.blogspot.com 

here’s my comic with Henry VIII and Joan of Arc as crime fighters theflyingbears.wordpress.com/2012/02/16/his…

a comicbook to read between airing greivances: bit.ly/AjuCI7

Tumblr for my comics and other drawings: retrosparity.tumblr.com

mine are bearinmindcomic.com and leagueofevilgenius.com :)

 ihateteenagers.tumblr.com

A Mad Tea-Party is about aliens, poorly-planned revolutions, and sometimes delicious tea. jonathondalton.com

It’s early days for me right now, but I Make A Thing, and I’m not going away: playthehero.thecomicseries.com

 

If you haven’t gotten sick of it yet, I run a humble little comic over here: ohumanstar.com

my girlfriend and I have had a comic for a while. thefourthcomic.com follows a villain in a video game world

some lovely NZ webcomics: bit.ly/xb07Lz (by Tim Kidd) & bit.ly/9uSfsG (by @sarahelaing)

Another comic for your list! tweep.com



Relative Normalcy! dft.ba/-samandmarian

We have a blog that just had a podcast spotlight on webcomics! It’ll be up tomorrow! geekin-out.com 

I haven’t updated in a little while, which is shameful, but I’ve got this one going: finnegan.8et8.net

 bomaldahide.tumblr.com my dumb command-based comic that no one likes!!

I don’t any more, but I did the writing on one years ago and I do miss doing that. kastaway.randomcasts.com

I may as well set aside any hint of guilt or pride or both. whatido.co.uk

Oh! I draw a comic, it’s called Biscuit Fox. Your Canadian followers might like it because its about hockey! bit.ly/pve3pY

 The Norm is at gocomics.com/thenorm/

I’m drawing a comic about Georges Melies! georgesmeliescomic.wordpress.com This is shameless spam but I really do love your work so anyway…

do-nothing.smackjeeves.com! It’s about a lazy vampire chick and her bat friend. They have adventures in a desert! Please check it out!

I run a tumblr solely dedicated to advertising webcomics - with credit always! allthewebcomics.tumblr.com

My attempt at a comic thematchingsocks.com !

“shameless whore for attention” counts? systemcomic.com

 Does animation count? If it’s BAD animation? youtube.com/playlist?list=…

 I put my webcomics at harrypujols.com/comics

C’est gentil, mais elle c’est une MEGA STAR de la BD indépendante aux US bit.ly/zeplvJ

 I draw Sproots, an autobio webcomic! sproots.net

I suppose we’re a little late, huh? blasternation.com

sites.google.com/site/captainte… My humble offering of ridiculously cute aardvarks and alligators

today’s my birthday / I’d love to get some traffic / mention my site please!  Www.thehaikulife.com

 I’m too late, but I’ll post anyway for people checking @ replies. (Wrong time to take a coffee break. :/) visforvacant.com

Not so much a web comic as a comic blog, but… lunaticsgarden.blog.com.

12alberts.com

lastcallcomic.com Slice-of-life comic about a 30-something married couple and their shenanigans. 240+ strips and still goin’!

 I am probably way too late, but I thought I’d try anyways worstidea.skyscrapersoup.com

One Panel Improv is a comics art project drawn one panel at a time! Craziness ensues! onepanelimprov.blogspot.com

 twoforonecomics.com and punching-the-clock.com I have two!

 I have one about the silly life of three science nerds (I swear I made this before big bang theory came out) WAITTcomics.com

Umm… my journal comic? Yeah. Look at that and learn things about me. For starters, I have this comic! unbekanntes.com

this is my baby: eveninarcadia.com

hey I have one reign-in-hell-comic.com

 drinkdecaf.com/undead :)

 bunny-comic.com . it’s not new, and in haitus, but there are 1500 strips there!

massivepwnage.com !

awesome idea! Cuddlesandrage.com !!!!

It’s memorycomic.tumblr.com Autocorrect on my phone screwed up the link…

tinyurl.com/7tefru8/K8aqw

mine spacesharkcomic.blogspot.com =D” This is comedic gold! Hats off for Space Shark!

Oh! Me! Me! In the back! crowbarbenson.com (It’s about hockey and Canada and everything!)

My comic/art blog is beccaandthebox.tumblr.com

 I just started last week, but mine is memorycomic.tumble.com Updates every Monday!

 My new webcomic about a family of monsters: thegarlicks.net Thank you!

 I’m going a year on mine at megacarter.com/takeoff

 I do a Victorian era adventure at widdershinscomic.com ! Now fulltime in comics so I could do with the boost!

 verbal-vomit.com. You won’t regret it. :)

I made the website fit my friend’s, merlincomics.com but he posts more on merlincomics.tumblr.com

Well, I’ve a photo-based rubber duck webcomic at quackedpanes.net that might amuse some folks.

I’m trying to promote a book instead, by @R_samuel11 wix.com/rasamuel92/sku… It has pirates!

 That’s cool of you :) SadPants.com

I’m a bit late…but I want to show you mine anyway!! Blake-Sinclair.smackjeeves.com - I’m such a big fan of your comic, and as such-

just started mine! RIVALS - the greatest band in the universe? enemyone.com/rivals/

Look I know I am over four minutes late, but why not, I do a daily video webcalendar on ucbcomedy.com!

 Did I miss it? littleleaguecomic.tumblr.com 

blacktursday.smackjeeves.com

working on a project at Some-Stories.com It is a semi-comic/semi-serious modern fantasy.

Check out supercutecomic.com please. Just starting out!

 pic.twitter.com/iOuh5ABp

This is my friend’s comic: twitter.com/#!/WhatKindOfC… 

Ooh pick me! unnatural20comic.com.

Just restarted Love is in the Blood - loveisintheblood.com - with new artist and new story.

 Lit Brick, a comic of literature! litbrick.com

watchmecomplain.tumblr.com !

My tiny brainchild, tinyrevelations.net :)

 vectorbelly.com It’s about friendship and journeys and friendship

 bit.ly/xJYzwp some cool fantasy stuff!

cgscomics.com I’m still making the website though, just barely getting off the ground :B

Do you like muppets? You’ll prolly dig Nomad Tofu!: nomadtofu.com

 thequillnews.wordpress.com

mushfacecomics.com is mine. If you RT it I’ll draw a Kate Beaton style thingy tonight!

I do too! whitenoise.smackjeeves.com. Flying people! War! Love! All that good stuff

Titanzer.com is my comic with comedy and giant robots!

We’ve been around for awhile, but ftg-comic.com is our bit of the web.

Aw heck, why not! I do wintersinlavelle.com, a YA fantasy epic!

Interesting Papers to be Written! :)  WWW.paperstobewritten.Wordpress.com

i have a comics blog! desdelglobo.blogspot.com

My wife and I are a couple months in now with one! ofstarsandswords.com

I have one! I don’t have a proper website for it yet though! titleunrelated.smackjeeves.com

Theburnlimit.the-comic.org

mine spacesharkcomic.blogspot.com =D

 howtosavetheworldcomic.com

I don’t, but a friend of mine recently launched elliestarling.com - a fun comic about an adventurer girl!

I do! pucomic.com ! It has a bear and a robot!

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fyeahwomenartists:

Kate Beaton

“Not now crime solving robot!”
What is almost now? The Gadget Hour!
And tomorrow at 7pm is THE BIG ONE!
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Kate Beaton

“Not now crime solving robot!”

What is almost now? The Gadget Hour!

And tomorrow at 7pm is THE BIG ONE!

Source: harkavagrant.com

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A lil’ Q and A, part one

beatonna:

Hey there!  It’s question and answer time!

A few weeks ago I put out an open call for questions about the comics industry.  A penance maybe, for having so many unanswered emails on these kinds of topics.  I’m sorry!  My email is terrible.

Anyway: I said I would answer the most frequently asked questions, to the best of my ability.  This isn’t a book on how to make comics, I can only speak from my own experience (in some places this will be painfully obvious), so keep that in mind.    Questions came from all over the spectrum of artists, so if you are, say, a teenager and read an answer that seems crazy inapplicable, I possibly had another type of person in mind when I typed the answer. 

This is part one, part two will have the big two questions that I got asked most of all- “how do I get people to read my comic” and “how do I generate an income.”  Anyway I’m still talking, as usual, too much of that, let’s get going.

(hope you like my meandering answers, I love meandering like babies love their mommas)


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This is how Canadians deal with internet trolls.
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Hahaha!
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beatonna:

living life fast and furious on the internet

Well this is just perfect


KATE. the visual of you cradling an internet jerk like he is a gradually shrinking baby is one the best things mine eyes have seen.
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Hahaha!

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beatonna:

living life fast and furious on the internet

Well this is just perfect

KATE. the visual of you cradling an internet jerk like he is a gradually shrinking baby is one the best things mine eyes have seen.

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There is nothing not adorable about this book, these people. All of it.

beatonna:

Today I went with Scott to a book event for Zombie In Love, a children’s book he recently illustrated.  As you can see, it was the cutest and best thing in the world and kids are amazing (so amazing!) and I made some new tiny pals. There are some more book events this month and I suggest you take all your babies to them.  Yes: all the babies.

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Kate Beaton is taking a few notes on Tumblr…beatonna:

Curio Books is a company that sells old picture books, but the publish several scans of the books as they go on sale as well, so it’s a real treasure trove!  If you like an image, save it, because once the book is sold the images go down.  This fighting picture is one of my favorite finds from there, I love it!
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beatonna:

Curio Books is a company that sells old picture books, but the publish several scans of the books as they go on sale as well, so it’s a real treasure trove!  If you like an image, save it, because once the book is sold the images go down.  This fighting picture is one of my favorite finds from there, I love it!

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    • #illustration
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Kate Beaton. More here!

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The Small Press Expo is North America's premiere independent cartooning and comic arts festival. SPX brings together more than 4,000 cartoonists and comic arts enthusiasts every fall in Bethesda, Maryland.


Dates & Times:

September 14th and 15th, 2013

Saturday: 11:00 am – 7:00 pm Sunday: 12:00 pm – 6:00 pm


Admission:

One Day Membership: $10 Weekend Membership: $15


Location:

The world class Marriott Bethesda North Hotel & Conference Center
5701 Marinelli Road
North Bethesda, MD 20852



2013 Special Guests

Small Press Expo is pleased to announce Seth, Gary Panter, Lisa Hanawalt, Gene Yang and Frank Santoro as special guests at SPX 2013, to be held Saturday, September 14 and Sunday, September 15.  We are honored that both Seth and Gary Panter will be making their first SPX appearances at this year’s show.

 
Seth
Creator and advocate of a Canadian design aesthetic, Seth is best known to the comics world as the artist/writer of the long running Palookaville comic, as well as his graphic novels Wimbledon Green and George Sprott (1895-1975), which was originally serialized in the New York Times. He is also known for his book design work for such series as The Complete Peanuts, Nancy and Melvin Monster, in addition to The Portable Dorothy Parker.

 
Gary Panter
Painter, poster artist, cartoonist, commercial artist, and set designer, polymath Gary Panter has covered the gamut. Best known to the comics world for his long running, post-apocalyptic Jimbo series as well as his graphic novel Dal Tokyo, he also won an Emmy Award for his work on Pee-Wee’s Playhouse, and the Chrysler Award for his influence in graphic design.

 
Lisa Hanawalt
Lisa Hanawalt has vaulted from her Ignatz Award winning mini-comics Stay Away From Other People and I Want You, to illustrating for such periodicals as the New York Times Op-Ed page, Vanity Fair, Glamour, Bloomberg Business Week, as well as McSweeney’s and The Believer. Her latest book is My Dirty Dumb Eyes, a compendium of her work being published this May by Drawn & Quarterly.

 
Gene Yang
Gene Yang, creator behind the award winning American Born Chinese, is returning to the graphic novel field with a two volume set, Boxers & Saints, to be released this fall by First Second Books. Set in China in 1900, it tells the story of the Boxer rebellion and how the teemagers of the day used their “super heroes” from Chinese opera as inspirations to fight against foreign invaders.

 
Frank Santoro
Frank Santoro is back with his latest work, Pompei, published by Picturebox. His Storeyville was one of the most influential comics of the 1990’s, leading to its reprinting in book form in 2007. He now runs the Santoro Correspondence Course For Comic Book Makers, which carries on the tradition of correspondence courses for cartoonists that stretches back over century, now in an online form utilizing the latest in collaborative technology.


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