or
Sign in to turn on 1-Click ordering.
 
 
Express Checkout with PayPhrase
What's this? | Create PayPhrase
Sorry!
More Buying Choices
33 used & new from $6.11

Have one to sell? Sell yours here
 
   
How to Make Webcomics
 
 
Tell the Publisher!
I’d like to read this book on Kindle

Don’t have a Kindle? Get your Kindle here.
 
  

How to Make Webcomics (Paperback)

~ Scott Kurtz (Author), Kris Straub (Author), Dave Kellett (Author), Brad Guigar (Author)
Key Phrases: black copy, lineart layer, table banner, Artist's Alley, Starslip Crisis, Project Wonderful (more...)
4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)

List Price: $12.99
Price: $6.11 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25. Details
You Save: $6.88 (53%)
o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o
In Stock.
Ships from and sold by Amazon.com. Gift-wrap available.

Want it delivered Wednesday, November 11? Choose One-Day Shipping at checkout. Details
26 new from $6.11 7 used from $8.99

Frequently Bought Together

How to Make Webcomics + The Economics of Web Comics, 2nd Edition + Hi-Fi Color For Comics: Digital Techniques for Professional Results
Price For All Three: $36.05

Show availability and shipping details

  • This item: How to Make Webcomics by Scott Kurtz

    In Stock.
    Ships from and sold by Amazon.com.
    Eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25. Details

  • The Economics of Web Comics, 2nd Edition by Todd W Allen

    In Stock.
    Ships from and sold by Amazon.com.
    Eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25. Details

  • Hi-Fi Color For Comics: Digital Techniques for Professional Results by Brian Miller

    In Stock.
    Ships from and sold by Amazon.com.
    Eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25. Details


Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought

Hi-Fi Color For Comics: Digital Techniques for Professional Results

Hi-Fi Color For Comics: Digital Techniques for Professional Results

by Brian Miller
4.5 out of 5 stars (24)  $16.49
The DC Comics Guide to Digitally Drawing Comics

The DC Comics Guide to Digitally Drawing Comics

by Freddie E Williams II
5.0 out of 5 stars (9)  $15.61
Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels

Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels

by Scott Mccloud
4.9 out of 5 stars (37)  $16.52
Drawing Words and Writing Pictures: Making Comics: Manga, Graphic Novels, and Beyond

Drawing Words and Writing Pictures: Making Comics: Manga, Graphic Novels, and Beyond

by Jessica Abel
4.6 out of 5 stars (5)  $19.77
Alan Moore's Writing For Comics Volume 1

Alan Moore's Writing For Comics Volume 1

by Alan Moore
4.0 out of 5 stars (21)  $5.95
Explore similar items

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

For years young, creative men and women have dreamed about making a living from their comic strips. But until recently their only avenue of success was through a syndicate or publisher. Now more and more cartoonists are doing it on their own and self-publishing their comic strips on the web. With the right amount of work, knowledge, and luck, so, too, can you. Scott Kurtz and Kristopher Straub offer their advice on how to create compelling characters, develop a solid comic strip, build a website, forge a community, and start earning money from your Webcomic without having to sell your soul. Written by the Eisner award winning cartoonist behind PVP, Scott Kurtz! PvP received 1.3 Million unique page views in Q1 2007 and averages 150k-200k per day!

Product Details

  • Paperback: 200 pages
  • Publisher: Image Comics (January 31, 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 158240870X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1582408705
  • Product Dimensions: 10 x 6.6 x 0.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #44,336 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

    Popular in this category: (What's this?)

    #28 in  Books > Comics & Graphic Novels > Publishers > Image Comics

Inside This Book (learn more)

What Do Customers Ultimately Buy After Viewing This Item?


Tags Customers Associate with This Product

 (What's this?)
Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
 
(11)
(3)

Your tags: Add your first tag
 

Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store

If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store. Learn more

 

Customer Reviews

17 Reviews
5 star:
 (13)
4 star:
 (1)
3 star:
 (2)
2 star:    (0)
1 star:
 (1)
 
 
 
 
 
Average Customer Review
4.5 out of 5 stars (17 customer reviews)
 
 
 
 
Share your thoughts with other customers:
Most Helpful Customer Reviews

 
15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The Nuts and Bolts of Promoting your Webcomic, March 31, 2008
Anyone with a comic and a website to promote it on has a webcomic. But these four artists combine their artistic and marketing strengths (kind of like Captain Planet) to show people how to make a successful webcomic. It's not a how-to-draw book; these guys are assuming you know how to draw already. This is a book talking about font legibility and character design and the difference between web quality and print quality resolution. I think this book should be alongside Scott McCloud's "Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art" on any comic artist's bookshelf.
Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)



 
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Essential Reading, May 29, 2008
By Charles J. Whelon (San Francisco, USA) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   
As someone who's been creating a webcomic for many years (Pewfell), I found this book to be very well put together, helpful and inspirational. I would definitely cite it as being essential reading for anyone hoping to monetize their own webcomic. Though much of it was stuff I already knew, I still found very many useful insights from these four guys who've actually walked the walk. All the information is put together in a fun, lighthearted, easy-to-read and well-thought-out way with lots of practical examples, great illustrations and comic strips. Great work & thanks for sharing, guys!
Comment Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)



 
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, though very americanized, May 27, 2008
By Olaf M. Solstrand (Tromsø, Norway) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   
Not many books manage to give a decent introduction to combining being an artist and a businessman. Guigar, Kellett, Kurtz and Straub do this excellently. I bought this book because I'm writing a Master's thesis on webcomics -- and "How to make webcomics" will definitely be quoted heavily in it -- but reading this book also gave me a renewed interest in making my *own* webcomic.

The best authors for books on how to make webcomics are definitely webcomics creators who love what they do. Guigar, Kellett, Kurtz and Straub show an enthusiasm in this book that rubs off, and in a wonderful mix of creative chapters (writing, creating your characters), practical chapters (scanning your comic, making a website) and business-related chapters (making an income out of your webcomic), it becomes very clear that the authors love what they do, and that anyone who loves webcomics may one day compete with them on the webcomics arena. You learn that you have to love webcomics to make one, as they won't give you much income the first couple of years, but you also learn to not feel guilty for monetizing on your work. This is the perfect combination of a "how-to-be-creative"-book and "how-to-sell-your-art"-book.

If there is one thing I hope will change in the second edition, I wish for a more global perspective. The book is great, but many of the points stated in it aren't really that useful for non-Americans. For instance, when I make a webcomic in Norwegian, I will probably never get ten thousand readers. I could write it in English, but that would create problems with a store, since I'm still physically based in Norway and won't be able to send books and T-shirts to USA or UK without charging a lot for sending them -- probably more than my readers want to pay. And if I need to use print-on-demand, there aren't really anyone over here that can offer that, ... and so on, and so on. I hope that a future "How to make webcomics" will be able to have a chapter answering some of the additional questions that rise when creating a webcomic outside the US.

But that is nitpicking, really. This is the epitome of a five-star book.
Comment Comments (2) | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? Yes No (Report this)


Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
 
 
 
Most Recent Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars Serious webcomic help
This is a good read for anyone wanting some help in taking their webcomics a bit further. It's not one of those books that spends half the time telling you that you need to have... Read more
Published 6 months ago by A. Bilitz

3.0 out of 5 stars Still scared of HTML
I work as a full time artist so some things in this book that might be useful to others, are old news to me because I've heard them said elsewhere a million times over. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Panama Jack

4.0 out of 5 stars An essential reference for webcomicers old and new.
I picked this book up after listening to the archives of Webcomics Weekly, the podcast produced by the four authors. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Alexandra Heberling

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing book!
This is the most useful book about making webcomics you could possibly buy. Honestly, you don't need another one, unless you need a book about actual cartooning. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Brendan Creecy

5.0 out of 5 stars Wow
For the past few months, I had been listening to these guys pimping out their book via the Webcomics Weekly podcast. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Mark Elton

1.0 out of 5 stars Scott Kurtz owes me money
I purchased this book directly from the PVPonline store to get a signed copy. I did this to support them more than ordering from Amazon. Read more
Published 10 months ago by C. K. Sample III

3.0 out of 5 stars Already dated, and the business model is not realistic
I'd still buy this, but be warned: the business model is unprofessional and unreliable. This may be why two authors of four carry full time jobs. Read more
Published 12 months ago by I Survived High School

5.0 out of 5 stars A Comic Artist's Must-Have
There are a handful of making your own comics and scads of books on drawing them, but there's not much on making a living off them, particularly with webcomics. Read more
Published 12 months ago by Grant Beaudette

5.0 out of 5 stars Complete guide to Webcomics

This has is all. From start to finish, if you want to get going in Webcomics...this really has it all. Damn this is cliche! But its true. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Santosh Oommen

5.0 out of 5 stars The Sad State of Amazon
While the book is great and Amazon itself did a great job of shipping and giving me a good quality undamaged book. Read more
Published 16 months ago by Kevin P. Johnson

Only search this product's reviews



Customer Discussions

This product's forum
Discussion Replies Latest Post
January 15? 1 March 2008
See all discussions...  
Start a new discussion
Topic:
First post:
Prompts for sign-in
 


Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
   




Product Information from the Amapedia Community

Beta (What's this?)


Look for Similar Items by Category


Look for Similar Items by Subject

 

Feedback

If you need help or have a question for Customer Service, contact us.
 Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
Is there any other feedback you would like to provide?

Your comments can help make our site better for everyone.


Your Recent History

 (What's this?)

After viewing product detail pages or search results, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in.