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Hints and Tips for writing humour

News/Updates: August 31st, 2007

Everyone has there own methods and ways for writing humour when suffering from writer’s or artist’s block.  Personally, I look though a couple of Gary Larson collections and generally that is enough to stimulate the creativity again.
A couple of weeks ago I was asked to deliver a presentation at work on using cartoons in the [...]

The comic collector’s lucky lottery ticket

News/Updates: September 30th, 2007

I have collected Phantom comics for years.  The Phantom was a character that both my father and grandfather had read and over the years I did to. When I moved interstate many years ago, my parents kept my collection as ‘collateral’ for all the money I owed them and my father continued buying the comics.  [...]

Top 100 lists

News/Updates: October 15th, 2007

Top 100 lists seem to always create a nice amount of discussion.
National Australia Bank released a list a while back listing the top 100 things you should do in your life and I’ve listed it below. Take a quick look and see how many items on the list you’ve completed yourself.  What other things do [...]

Creative commons deed - an alternative way to licence your work

News/Updates: October 31st, 2007

A couple of weeks ago I stumbled across a website which related to alternative ways to licence and copyright your artistic work. As the creator of an artistic work, you have the right to set what level of rights you choose for the work you have created.  The website quotes:

Art as a business

News/Updates: November 20th, 2007

I’ve been providing blogs to Matt Glover’s Website, www.chewingpencils.com as a way of lifting my ‘web presence’ and hopefully attract some new readers to my site. I think there is a misconception in the artistic community that you need to suffer for your art and therefore I believe many artists have difficulty in the business [...]

Webcomics - How do others do it and what makes them successful?

News/Updates: November 30th, 2007

I read www.pvponline.com on a daily basis for a number of reasons (apart from it generally being pretty good with really clean artwork).  PVP started originally in a computer gaming magazine and slowly progressed to the web where it has, something of a cult following. The author, Scott Kurtz, has created a very good business [...]