Art & Story Alive! Episode 92

[private]This episode of Art & Story Alive! is the first clubhouse meeting for the Mini-Comics Dump Truck 2011. The Mini-Comics Dump Truck is a club for the subscribers of Art & Story Supreme only. In this episode we talk about why we are doing mini-comics and how we will be handling the art form. Storriors: [...]

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Art & Story Alive! Episode 91

[private]It’s marketing, outreach, and social networking all over the place on this episode of Art & Story Alive! We start with a wondering I put forth in the A&S Forum: The role of branding and getting the word out about projects from your own experiences (Social media, forums, Deviant Art, Livejournal, Tumblr, etc). What works [...]

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Art & Story Alive! Episode 90

[private]This time we discuss approach vectors into projects; what our mindsets are when beginning a project and some strategies to making our projects a reality. We also spend some time debating how much pre-planning and preparation a young or beginning cartoonist should undergo before taking a project on. Just how much prep is too much? [...]

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Art & Story Alive! Episode 89

[private]It’s a new format for a new year as we re-launch Art & Story Alive! This time I’m joined by members of the Art & Story Supreme forums for a discussion on the moments in our lives when we decided to be cartoonists. It’s a pretty big and energetic round table, including: Rene van Belzen [...]

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Art & Story Alive! Episode 88

[private]It’s this year’s last episode of Art & Story Alive! We start with an announcement that we’ll be moving the live show to UStream next year. More details to come soon, but you can get a sense of what the show will look like with some of our test streams currently posted there. Our main [...]

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Art & Story Alive! Episode 87

[private]This week we talk about printing, selling, and marketing, followed by a discussion on cover design. We close out the episode with some thoughts on an article about our “inner whining artist”. From Collin Lenzen: Maybe a little talk about after the comic: Where and how to sell the thing. How to promote it. From [...]

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Art & Story Alive! Episode 86

[private]It’s conventions, drawing for our peers or an intended audience, and lettering talk on this edition of Art & Story Alive! We start with a report on the Alternative Press Expo from friend of the show Javier Hernandez. This spirals out to a bit of a mini-topic on conventions and what it takes to keep [...]

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Art & Story Alive! Episode 85

[private]It’s beards, motion comics, 24-hour comics, and webcomics up to the hilt on this episode of Art & Story Alive! After a brief report from Ryan Dow on his experience at 24-hour comic day, we tackle a topic proposed by Collin Lenzen: Alternatives to simply displaying a full comic page online. (Full pages online can [...]

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Art & Story Alive! Episode 84

[private]Breathing new life into old genres and fighting the battle between clarity and tone are on the table for discussion on this week’s Art & Story Alive! First we tackle a topic presented by Storrior BoSteel: The Big Niche Market. What if what you wanna tell IS a super hero story? How do you get [...]

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Art & Story Alive! Episode 83

[private]It’s digital vs. analog, exercise vs. sitting still, and repetition vs. surprising your audience in this week’s show! From Sean Cooke: Maybe the difference/mindset between digital file creation and tangible finals? I know you and Mark both do it differently, right? From Mark Harmon: Maybe this could be a small side topic, but, what about [...]

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