POTM Interview: Ryan Turcotte and Adam Pilkington of “Crosstown”
Published By Todd McElmurry Under Featured News, Interviews, Site News, Webcomic News, Weekly Pick Tags: 10 Questions, Adam Pilkington, Crosstown, Heaven, Hell, interview, Ryan Turcotte
We've had the great pleasure of featuring "Crosstown" as our Pick of the Month for June, now it's time to dig in and find out who the minds are behind it. Allow me to introduce to you Ryan Turcotte, writer and self proclaimed Yang of Crosstown and Adam Pilkington, artist ... Continue Reading
Website Design with Comments in Mind
Published By robin Under Featured News, Helpful Hints, Site News, Tech Tags: commenting, community building, optimizing website design
Communication between you and your readers starts the instant they get on your site, long before they've read a single comic or blog post. What messages are you sending to your audience just with your website design? You might not realize it, but your site could be a ... Continue Reading
POTM: Crosstown
Published By Todd McElmurry Under Featured News, Site News, Webcomic News, Weekly Pick Tags: Adam Pilkington, Crosstown, cryptic, death, heaven or hell, Ryan Turcotte
Somewhere between Heaven and Hell is Crosstown. After death you find yourself here redeeming yourself if you choose to and trying to buy your way into Heaven by working off days from your Cryptic. How many days depends on how you were in life, and as John, the main character, ... Continue Reading
We Want You!
That’s right! We here at the Alliance want you! We want you to submit guest articles for this summer. From June 17th through the end of August, 2013 we’re going to run four guest articles a month. So this is your chance to get in your 2-cents and cover some ... Continue Reading
POTM Interview: The creative minds behind Deep Dive Daredevils
Published By Todd McElmurry Under Featured News, Interviews, Site News Tags: 10 Questions, collaboration, Dan Fifield, Danilo Guida, Deep Dive Daredevils, Evin Dempsey, interview, Matt Heistand
This month we have been sharing Deep Dive Daredevils by the Thre315ive (Three One Five) as our May Pick of the Month. Now those that know me know how much I love collaboration comics, to see all these super talented minds in writing and drawing come together to create an ... Continue Reading
Finding a Typical Webcomic Reader
Published By Todd McElmurry Under Business, Featured News, Helpful Hints, Site News Tags: customers, demographic, hits, page views, readers, readership, typical
They’re out there. Passionate, dedicated, willing to support indie creators, and yet so very elusive: The Typical Webcomic Reader. As we have discussed on this site and on our podcasts, although we can easily find fellow creators quite easily on social media, finding the READERS… you know, the ones who keep up ... Continue Reading
POTM Interview: Pol Desmarais and Adam Volk
Published By Todd McElmurry Under Site News
For the month of April we've had the great pleasure of putting the spotlight on another fun webcomic, Human/Nature by the very talented Pol Desmarais and Adam Volk. Adam and Pol started their collaboration together back in April 2012 on Human/Nature, and it's been an amazing run. I really enjoy these collaboration pieces where ... Continue Reading
POTM: Human/Nature
Published By Todd McElmurry Under Featured News, Site News, Weekly Pick Tags: Accounting, Animals, Human Nature, Humans, Office, Phil, Rusty, Water Cooler, Word Processing
Human/Nature reveals to us an office experience where most of the cubicle buddies are animals, I don't mean crazed acting people I mean real animals. Meet Phil and Rusty, best of buds just making their way through the 40 hour work week however they can. We don't want to call ... Continue Reading
Talking ’bout Sketch Cards!
Published By chrisflick Under Business, Conventions, Drawing, Featured News, Helpful Hints, Site News, Tutorials Tags: Blue Line Pro, Digital Heroes, Iconographics, Ralph Contreras, U-Printing, Ultra-Pro
Hey kids! Today, I want to talk to you about sketch cards and show you how you can make your own custom cards that will, hopefully, help you stand out from the convention crowd.
Sketch cards have recently taken off in popularity the last couple of years - and, as you ... Continue Reading
Long-Form Brainstorming Bonanza!
Published By robin Under Featured News, Helpful Hints, Site News, Tutorials, Writing Tags: brainstorming, character clones, character development, fatal flaws, storytelling, theme
Stories don't just pop into our heads fully-formed and perfect. In fact, sometimes when we sit down to start a chapter, ideas don't want to form at all. So let's bust those brainstorming blocks with some in-depth tips on where to start: character arc, common ground in the cast, and ... Continue Reading
POTM: Tales of the Brothers Three
Published By Todd McElmurry Under Featured News, Site News, Webcomic News, Weekly Pick Tags: Dougie, Joshua Hauke, Keith, Mook, Mortimer J Moose, Pick of the Month, Tales of the Brothers Three, Wayne
Tales of the Brothers Three is narrated in part by Mortimer J. Moose, who has a really good view of the family from his perch there upon the wall. The story follows the family life of three brothers, one very precocious and the other 2...well, let's just say very imaginative.
The ... Continue Reading
POTM Interview: Jen Lee of THUNDERPAW
Published By Todd McElmurry Under Interviews, Site News, Webcomic News, Weekly Pick Tags: 10 Questions, Jen Lee, Make Comics, Thunderpaw
For the month of February we've had the pleasure of putting the animated spotlight on a very cool comic THUNDERPAW by Jen Lee. So let's take some time and meet Jen as she tackles our "10 Questions", giving us all a chance to connect with her a little bit better.
Thinking ... Continue Reading
POTM: THUNDERPAW
Published By Todd McElmurry Under Featured News, Site News, Webcomic News, Weekly Pick Tags: Animated, Jen Lee, Thunderpaw
THUNDERPAW In the Ashes of Fire Mountain, is a very unique comic, in that it's part comic part animation and all parts Amazing!!
Meet Bruno and Ollie, best friends who find themselves suddenly thrown into a world of Chaos. When we meet them, they are your typical dogs, waiting somewhat ... Continue Reading
My Convention Table Set-up
Published By chrisflick Under Business, Conventions, Featured News, Helpful Hints, Site News Tags: Alltown Comic Con, Convention table set-up
Over the years since I started Capes & Babes and began attending conventions, I’ve been very fortunate to receive many great compliments about my table set-up. I’d like to think part of that is due to my extensive graphic design background. In any case, there’s a lot of thought and ... Continue Reading
POTM Interview: Vince Dorse of Untold Tales of Bigfoot
Published By Todd McElmurry Under Interviews, Site News, Webcomic News, Weekly Pick Tags: 10 Questions, Bigfoot, Make Comics, POTM, Vince Dorse
For the month of December we've packed up our camping gear and headed out into the woods in search of the elusive Bigfoot. Along the way we met a wonderfully cute and friendly member of the Sasquatch family brought to us by the very talented Vince Dorse. So now that ... Continue Reading
POTM: Schlock Mercenary
Published By Todd McElmurry Under Featured News, Site News, Webcomic News, Weekly Pick Tags: Howard Tayler, Mercenary, POTM, Schlock, Sci Fi, Space Opera
Deep in the recesses of space, or just one Teraport jump away from you is a mercenary like no other, Schlock. Recruited, I use that word loosely, by Lieutenant Der Trihs and led by Captain Tagon, Schlock and the crew find themselves in the midst of a hostile takeover, and ... Continue Reading
Rewards and Risks of Readership
Published By robin Under Business, Featured News, Interviews, Site News Tags: growing your audience, Kambrea Pratt, readership, Shadowbinders, Thom Pratt
It seems like webcartoonists are in a never-ending quest for more page-views - but is that an outdated goal? (More importantly - will it turn us into a fossil just by grasping it? At least it won't melt our faces off...)
To answer this question, I contacted Thom and Kambrea of ... Continue Reading
Contest Results – Draw an Alien!
Published By robin Under Contest, Drawing, Featured News, Site News, Weekly Pick Tags: aliens, character design, other worlds, Science Fiction
The Entries...
By Pluto's revoked Planetary status, did we get some fantastic entries! The creativity! The color! The occasionally bizarre! You all delivered in spades! In fact -- Dawn was so excited by the response that she decided to have not one, but TWO winners...A Webcomic Alliance Choice...and a READER'S CHOICE! ... Continue Reading
POTM: Odori Park
Raised worlds apart and brought together by fate to Love and grow as a family, when East meets West something remarkable happens, a wonderful family comic strip called Odori Park by Chris Watkins. Meet the Easton's Colin, Arisa, and their son "Sprout". This wonderful webcomic takes us down the journey ... Continue Reading
POTM Interview: Reds Planet
Published By Todd McElmurry Under Featured News, Site News, Weekly Pick Tags: Artist, interview, Pick of the Month, POTM, Q&A, Red's Planet
This month we've had the great pleasure to showcase Red's Planet by Eddie Pittman. As something new here at the Webcomic Alliance we are now doing informal Pick of the Month Interviews with the creators as well. Being a huge fan of Red's Planet I was very excited to start ... Continue Reading











