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Sep 2020

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.

I've made 3 small games on Kongregate.com from 2015 to 2019. (It's a popular platform for webgames). My most popular webgame (also the first game) is a cooking simulator about frying eggs. though not popular enough to be on frontpage once but people tend to like it. Unfortunately my later works are less appreciated, especially the alien action-puzzle game, I've put much effort to it and people don't seems to get its appeal :disappointed:


http://www.kongregate.com/accounts/Allentthesnouty

Now that my main project is webcomic, I still want to upload my games as a hobbyist when possible. (I have a new game prototype but on hiatus, maybe in some other time next year)

Also, I have a small collections of my game music on SoundCloud. https://soundcloud.com/allentthesnouty

Well, thanks to some crafty censoring, yes, we can proudly say our "outside" work is now available on Tapas:

:smiley:

We publish everything outside of tapas haha.In fact we're super busy with new releases and Tapas is just a mirror. :wink:
We're currently running a new IGG campaign for all our anthologies so far! Nearly 40 creators together, nearly all from Tapas! (and every copy sold means over 50% goes back to them!)

Of course we got our own stuff on our website and tons of stuff in physical form. All of our comics are made for traditional publishing and we will continue to do so ^^

I do acrylic painting and have had some of my paintings exhibited at community art shows -even won some awards ^^ I also published a few illustrations on a local art magazine, and had a short comic published in an anthology by @faeriesandents :slight_smile:

This thread is so nice and interesting! I love seeing what people are up to beside their comics!

I work in graphic design and typesetting for book publishing! I made a few book covers, most of them are just design but two others have my illustrations on them, too. Which made me very happy and proud! c: I've only ever participated in an exhibition once, in my last year of highschool. It was a fun experience. I don't do that much "fine art" anymore, though....