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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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TEXT - Less Common Balloons
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CHARACTERS - Cast for Contrast
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IMAGES - Motion "Strike the Pose"
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TEXT - Captions Tell
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IMAGES - Spotlighting Points of Interest
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TEXT - Text-Image Redundancy
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IMAGES - Foregrounds to Reframe
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LAYOUT - Balloon Placement in Print Comics
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LAYOUT - Balloons Placement in Scroll Comics
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LAYOUT - When Do Square Panels Work?
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IMAGES - Subtle Motion in Comics
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TEXT - Source & Path of SFXs
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STORY - Off Panel Action
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NEWS - Already HOW LONG???
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TEXT-Basic Balloons
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IMAGES - Classic Shots for Openings
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TEXT - Illusion of Volume
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IMAGES - Comics Perspective
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STORY - Hook the Eyes (Ouch!)
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STORY - Hook the Heart
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STORY - Hook the Brain
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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
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CAREER - Short Stories to Begin
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LAYOUT - Control Pacing with Text & Images
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LAYOUT - Safety Rings for Text
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IMAGES - Why Panel Borders
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LAYOUT - Timing Speech Pauses with Balloons
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TEXT - Just Enough Leading
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IMAGES - Foreground as Stencil-Frames
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LAYOUT - Bad Pointer Manners
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TEXT - Timing Speech Pauses with Punctuation
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LAYOUT - Aiming Balloon Pointers
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IMAGES - Foreground as Boundary
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LAYOUT - XL Gutters for Extra Drama or Delay
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TEXT - Name Names Often Enough
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LAYOUT - Medium Gutters for Beat Slowdowns
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LAYOUT - Large Gutters for Scene to Scene
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LAYOUT - Small Gutters for Beat-to-Beat Action
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LAYOUT - Keep Panels Apart with Gutters
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LAYOUT - Avoid Cloddish Layouts
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LAYOUT - Match Text to Balloon Shape
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STORY - Traveling: Mostly Boring
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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!
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