We here at the Alliance get asked this question a lot: “When will I know I’m ready to print my first book?”  This is a loaded question and the real question should be “Is my comic ready for printing?”  What I mean is your audience ready to shell out hard ... Continue Reading

  What if all the childhood holiday characters REALLY existed? What if you found out there's really a Santa Claus at the North Pole, or the Easter Bunny actually delivers candy.... and has quite a temper, I might add? What if other lesser celebrated holidays had representative characters or people, such ... Continue Reading

Solving Webcomic Issues We All Face. This podcast we discuss: Antoine: Comic Format:  Are the Standard "Comic Book" and "Newspaper" Formats getting too old? Where is it written that a comic book needs 22-24 pages. Is there really a need anymore to follow the format defined by Marvel, DC? Drezz: Selling your comic: ... Continue Reading

Battlepug by Mike Norton  is told through narration by Moll to her two dogs Colfax and Mingo.  The story she unfolds to her beloved pets follows the adventures of what is possibly the last Kimmundy child as he narrowly survives the destruction of his people only to be brought into Slavery ... Continue Reading

  We at the Alliance have pestered you via aticles on this website. We have reminded you on the podcast. Heck, if we met you in person, we probably nagged you about it then, too. BACK UP YOUR STUFF! For the LOVE of all that is HOLY! You still haven't? Yeah yeah, ... Continue Reading

When I was a kid, I used to love smashing bugs. In my eyes, critters were always the epitome of evil - lurking in shadows and dark areas, with many appendages, eyes and antennae. Now that I'm older, that fear of bugs disappeared, yet I can't help but cheer whenever ... Continue Reading

Solving Webcomic Issues We All Face. This podcast we discuss some issues we've had in the past and re-cap where we're at with them today! Ken: Thinking of scaling back from five days to one - is that too much and how would you reformat a comic from daily four panel to ... Continue Reading

  As a kid, my dreams were haunted by a movie with Steve McQueen titled The Blob. Horror movie about a big alien Silly Putty that eats everything in its path and grows and grows and grows. Now I feel like singing: ♪♫ Grow, grow, grow your Blob, deadly down the ... Continue Reading

Good day folks. I'm not going to beat around the bush in this article - I'm just going to come right out and say it. A lot of comics you see on the Internet = FAIL. It's not always  due to the people in charge, but more likely because they are lacking ... Continue Reading

Robbie and Bobby by Jason Poland takes us on a fun trip with Bobby and his new best friend Robbie the Robot.   Bobby is your typical little boy always getting into trouble, finding new adventures, etc. with one cool exception, he get's to have these adventures with his very ... Continue Reading

Solving Webcomic Issues We All Face. No one said we could count... this one is actually Podcast #43! Now we can all sleep at night.  This podcast we discuss Byron:   Remembering stuff.  I am having a terrible time with it.  I use to use my Outlook w/ Pocket PC software but that's ... Continue Reading

Aidan Casserly’s “Scapula” is a fantastic, twisted and warped comic that is filled with wondrous characters rendered in an original style that is a delight to the eye.  Aidan himself must have a dual personality as from my discussions with him on Twitter, he seems an intelligent and funny guy, ... Continue Reading

What follows is an editorial opinion by me, the official Old Fart of the Webcomic Alliance.  This opinion is not shared by my fellow Alliance members.  I am stating this up front as my opinion is going to be used to drive home my point. Now that I’ve clarified this, ... Continue Reading

Really, Tom Dell'aringa explains this comic best and most succinctly: "It's Gilligan's Island on Mars." Marooned isn't really a gag comic strip (anymore- in its early stages it was structured more like a comic strip), but it can be quite funny. For a long-form story, it is very easy to ... Continue Reading

Solving Webcomic Issues We All Face. This podcast we discuss: Drezz:  Switching gears - I'm looking for some insight on how to get creatively 'centered' on a project when you're working on two things that are radically different at the same time. What do you do in order to stay focused? Dawn:  Tips ... Continue Reading

Aedre's Firefly by Jande Rowe follows the turmoil filled life of Aedre.   She finds her self ridiculed and bullied at home and at school and finally decides that she's had enough and wants to escape from this world that has treated her so badly and runs away.   One ... Continue Reading

If you're a business-minded creator, you know it's best to keep up with the latest news in our ever-growing field. The Webcomics business is still very much in it's early stages, and while the technology-based media (like, say, PC Mag) will run articles on the latest-and-greatest webcomics out there, most ... Continue Reading

On the exterior, Cally Calhoon seems like your typical unassuming 16 year old girl. She attends high school and is interested in boys, but there's one major difference. She's a high tech spy! As one of the last entries into DC's Zuda competition a few years ago, Spy6Teen garnered an instant following ... Continue Reading

Solving Webcomic Issues We All Face. This podcast we discuss: Ken: How do you get ramped back up to doing the workload you previously had on your comic after a hiatus? Part of me doesn't want to go back to that schedule/lifestyle... Dawn: After ditching the syndication route, I have seemingly been brainwashed ... Continue Reading

Madbury by Jynksie follows the life of Hodge Madbury, his family and friends in the New Hampshire town of Granite Hills.   Madbury offers a satirical and humorous look at the world of politics and life around us.   Jynskie promises thought that even though it can have it's poignant ... Continue Reading