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1KComics Tips
To help you make comics like pros, Mac McCool shares knowledge of making Webtoons, graphic novels, and comics strips. He taught Illustration, Sequential Art, and Visual Storytelling since 2002 in US colleges. Artists once in his courses created "I'm the Grim Reaper," "Surfside Girls," "Primos," and are publishing with Marvel, DC, Scholastic, Viz, IDW, and more. His last classes published "Ovid Metamorphoses" on Webtoons.com. "Comics Tips" are now out on 1st and 15th of the month (or so!).
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STORY - Hook the Heart UP
likeit18 May 15, 2024#30 -
STORY - Hook the Brain
likeit53 May 1, 2024#29 -
STORY - Start with a Hook
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LAYOUT - Borderless Panels
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TEXT-How Many Lines per Balloon
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STORY - Huge Story Exit-Ramp
likeit26 Mar 1, 2024#25 -
CAREER - Short Stories to Begin
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LAYOUT - Control Pacing with Text & Images
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LAYOUT - Safety Rings for Text
likeit30 Oct 4, 2023#22 -
IMAGES - Why Panel Borders
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LAYOUT - Timing Speech Pauses with Balloons
likeit50 Sep 28, 2023#20 -
TEXT - Just Enough Leading
likeit28 Sep 27, 2023#19 -
IMAGES - Foreground as Stencil-Frames
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LAYOUT - Bad Pointer Manners
likeit40 Sep 21, 2023#17 -
TEXT - Timing Speech Pauses with Punctuation
likeit48 Sep 20, 2023#16 -
LAYOUT - Aiming Balloon Pointers
likeit50 Sep 19, 2023#15 -
IMAGES - Foreground as Boundary
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LAYOUT - XL Gutters for Extra Drama or Delay
likeit44 Sep 13, 2023#13 -
TEXT - Name Names Often Enough
likeit62 Sep 12, 2023#12 -
LAYOUT - Medium Gutters for Beat Slowdowns
likeit52 Sep 7, 2023#11 -
LAYOUT - Large Gutters for Scene to Scene
likeit55 Sep 6, 2023#10 -
LAYOUT - Small Gutters for Beat-to-Beat Action
likeit68 Sep 5, 2023#9 -
LAYOUT - Keep Panels Apart with Gutters
likeit63 Aug 31, 2023#8 -
LAYOUT - Avoid Cloddish Layouts
likeit66 Aug 30, 2023#7 -
LAYOUT - Match Text to Balloon Shape
likeit77 Aug 29, 2023#6 -
STORY - Traveling: Mostly Boring
likeit95 Aug 24, 2023#5 -
IMAGES - Backgrounds When? For Mood
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IMAGES - Backgrounds When? For Settings (Time+Place)
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TEXT - Use Comics Fonts
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Comics Tips For YOU!
likeit200 Aug 11, 2023#1