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Sep 2020

We only ever make comics, so it's all about them :smile:
Last year participated in the Over a Coffee anthology that was put together by awesome @faeriesandents! This short story really put me on improving the lineart route, haha ^^

This year we participated in Webtoons short story contest, and it was our first comic made right in the scroll format, which we haven't done before :slight_smile: This was a hard one, but it was a great experience :smirk:

I work on a "print only" comic besides my Tapas webcomic that I sell at conventions...once I put my site together I'll be selling copies of it and print editions of my webcomic; also planning to make a comic story for my patrons on my Patreon.

Oh yeah, I have lots of stuff going on outside of Tapas. I do a lot of work-for-hire comics that have been in newspapers and anthologies, I've done a few zines this summer, and I just got hired to do a short comic with Comics Experience. I've done book covers, trading cards, colorist work, a coloring/activity book, a children's alphabet book, and tons of handmade mini comics because mini comics are wonderful and fun and you can do so many things with tiny experimental comics.

I've produced a 6-episode documentary podcast. It releases in mid-October and I'm really excited about it. It's been a labour of love over the last six months but it's finally coming together and I honestly can't wait to see what the response will be.

That's our plan, to start a podcast in the fall months. We just need to figure out what we're going to discuss. :stuck_out_tongue: Maybe talk to comic creators.

Good luck with yours though!

Good luck! The podcast has been such a great project, but I will say however long you think something will take with it, double or triple the expected time! Don't give yourself too much work to do upfront because even the smallest things can set back a podcast by weeks!

Well, this is all very new to us. Our idea was to just use Zoom Video probably, record the "show" and then YouTube it and see if it turns heads. :slight_smile:

Zoom works to start! Once you've settled into a routine with it, I really recommend Squadcast though just to up your audio quality!

Yeah, for fun, my bro and I do a recap blog of Good Bad TV where we watch a show blind, I'm currently reviewing all of OG Yugioh (which is a trip, by the way, if you're bored you can read through every episode of 4 seasons of this extremely complicated and violent children's show).

It's been so incredibly relaxing to do something that isn't really art related, and doing that has helped my writing chops a lot although it's barely writing fiction (it's more writing about why fiction works since we talk about why this show was so effective for so long) But I also have to be entertaining--which is something I don't always focus on when I'm writing fiction. It's a fun challenge to be entertaining and engaging rather than just...writerly.

And then also I do paintings and illustration...but that's so art related I feel like it's...very close to comic making. Very hand in hand.

I will say the time I spent doing crafting on Etsy in the past has become very relevant to learning how Webcomic algorithms and promoting works. at the time it seemed like busywork to drill up interest in my old Etsy jewelry, but it taught me that making business plan also works for my stories instead of just...winging it and crossing my fingers and assuming that's all you ever need to do.

I've been published in anthologies before (working on a submission atm) and I'm in the process of querying for an agent. Hoping to trad publish a book not on tapas

I work as a designer so there are some creative works of mine being used by businesses. We also make toys and customs. I wish I can make some comics based on the sculptures I developed and make some figures for my Tapas comic. I like the synergy of 3D objects and 2D illustrations. It will be a dream come true to make a whole brand.

I had a blog with a group of friends for a while, which was really fun -- it ended because the 2016 US election happened and we all got really depressed, and then most of us got 9 to 5 jobs that took up too much of our time, but it was a blast, and I still miss it. (I mostly wrote funny Harry Potter parodies, although I did some other things, too, like bookstore reviews.)

I also never intended to write serialized novels in the first place! I just write novels. The reason I ended up here was that I really wanted to find a place for this particular book.

I don't know what I'll end up doing with future books I write! I'll probably try and farm them out to agents before posting them anywhere; if that doesn't yield anything, I could see myself posting other work here.