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It's Friday — am I famous yet?
Episode 338
After six weeks of working on their comic, a listener asks how soon they can expect to make a living doing this — and gets an earful from Brad and Da…
1 year, 8 months ago
They can't all be winners
Episode 339
How much of your work would you consider "top tier?" Fifty percent? Twenty percent? And speaking of the top tier, Brad and Dave share a partial list …
1 year, 9 months ago
Survivorship Bias
Episode 337
We've all heard successful creators complain that younger hopefuls "just don't want to do the hard work." They disregard the complicated nature of ac…
1 year, 9 months ago
Are we 'there' yet?
Episode 336
How did Brad and Dave know when they'd "made it"? ALSO: Now that you have a website with a blog... what do you write??
Brad shares a heartwarming stor…
1 year, 9 months ago
How much story is too much story?
Episode 335
How do you know when you're giving your readers too many details? — or not enough? Where's the sweet spot between action and exposition? We're going …
1 year, 9 months ago
Social media is dead... now what?
Episode 334
Having completed their Kickstarters, Dave and Brad review the promotional outreach that delivered the biggest results and make a shocking discovery. …
1 year, 9 months ago
Building traffic vs building audience
Episode 333
Is it possible to build traffic for your comic without building an audience? Also, an anonymous post on Reddit accuses Webtoons of using a predatory …
1 year, 10 months ago
Special guest Dave Blazek
Episode 332
This week, we're talking to Dave Blazek, creator of "Loose Parts," a single-panel comic syndicated to more than 120 newspapers worldwide. Blazek is a…
1 year, 10 months ago
Special Guest Jason Chatfield
Episode 331
New Yorker cartoonist Jason Chatfield joins us to talk about cartooning for the venerable mag, working with a writing partner, doing stand-up at Dang…
1 year, 10 months ago
How to maximize creativity
Episode 330
We all have creative peaks and valleys. How can we maximize the good times and minimize the bad?
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