kirabug's idea files

kirabug’s idea files

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iPad mmmmm :)

Today’s comic marks the first one I fully created on my iPad. There will be more.

If anyone’s got suggestions for FTP apps for the iPhone/iPad that don’t cost a fortune and don’t suck, please let me know. With a good FTP app I won’t need to log back into the computer to post comics at all if I don’t want to.

That’s not to say that I’m giving up my WACOM tablet, just that travel just got lighter, and comicking more convenient.

Blambot guide to comic book grammar & tradition

This article on the traditional ways to letter a comic book is particularly useful.

A case of unintentional comics

There's capturing the impression of action for your marketing, and then there's creating action comics.

Watch This: Disney Re-Uses Their Animation – Cinematical

If you ever felt the temptation to give your favorite webcomic artist crap for copy/pasting characters, remember, they learned it from the masters.

Creeeeeepy.

50 Totally Free Lessons in Graphic Design Theory

50 Totally Free Lessons in Graphic Design Theory.Because you want to be smarter, and totally free lessons are a good way to do that.

Everything old is new again

When I was young, I set up my father’s record player in my bedroom, with his old drawing table, and I painted watercolors on any piece of paper that made the mistake of being in range while listening to Peter Paul and Mary, the soundtrack to 1776, the Kingston Trio, and occasionally some of his other stuff.

Tonight, I’m home alone, listening to Peter Paul and Mary and the Kingston Trio while drawing comics on a Wacom tablet with a surface about the size of the paper I used to paint.

It’s a good way to be.

Ira Glass on Storytelling

Mmmm, inspiration. I need to stop sucking so much and get some content rolling or I’m never going to get better. Thx to Hawk at Applegeeks for this one.