When a content scraper steals your exclusives
It happens from time to time — especially if you’re offering exclusive content on Patreon.
The Webcomics Handbook
Veteran cartoonist Brad Guigar shares advice, tutorials, and tips for independent comic artists
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Five tips to improve your Substack home page
Your home page is the first thing new readers will see when they decide to check out your work on Substack.
Webcomics Confidential — Photo reference
It's OK to use photographs to guide your drawings
Publishing Comics on Substack — Updated Strategy
Substack can be a powerful way to distribute comics to your readers
The Best of The Webcomics Handbook in July
A hand-picked selection of exclusive posts
Using a social media scheduler to add consistency to your strategy
Plan once, post all week — how scheduling tools like Buffer can streamline your workflow and help you show up regularly.
How to Calculate Your Churn Rate
A simple metric that reveals where your membership business is really headed.
August To-Do List
It’s the first month of the second half of the year!
Webcomics Confidential — Success is not the finish line… It's the starter's pistol.
Are you prepared to succeed?
Q&A: Image sizes
What's the right size to post an image — for desktop and smartphones?
Never Outsource Your Vision
Readers are experts in consumption — not creation
Webcomics Confidential: Unnecessary Tangents
Unnecessary tangents in an illustration can be distracting — and kill the composition in an otherwise great drawing.
Livestream Chat: Doing a quiet voice in comics lettering
Livestream Chat: Doing a quiet voice in comics lettering.
Talking Comics with Brad Guigar — Creativity vs Consistency
Reviews aren’t promotion. Consistency beats creativity. And comic cons? Maybe not worth it. Here’s the honest advice most creators don’t want to hear.
Future Expected Value
What can Netflix teach you about administering your Patreon rewards?
Webcomics Confidential — How to get your creative motor started
The key to igniting your creativity is so simple that it continues to elude us — even those who have been doing this for a long time.
How to do a reader survey
Reader surveys are an excellent way to get a better feel for your audience.
Rethink the landing page
Many of us recognize that readership on the Web has shifted.
How to Achieve a Healthy Work-Life Balance
Design your comic around your life — not the other way around
Webcomics Confidential: Talent vs Skill
This post is exclusively for my subscribers, but you can check it out — along with the entire Webcomics Handbook archive — for free