Capes & Babes, a webcomic by Chris Flick

Thanks to the “little” operation I had on Friday, I’ve been told that I can’t do any exercising for at least a week – but let me tell you… even if I WANTED to, I can’t do any exercise anyway.

Oh, sure, I’m feeling much better – and truthfully, the whole weekend I didn’t really feel THAT bad except when I have gotten up to walk. Suddenly, I feel like I have a groin pull on both sides of my leg. It (mostly) goes away after I walk a little bit but I can easily tell about the only kind of exercise I might even be able to THINK about is light walking.

LIGHTBOX – ILLUMINATING WEBCOMICS PODCAST

Okay, so I REALLY need to make a better habit of promoting the WEEKLY podcast that I do with Matt Stout and Rob Chandler. As the heading says, the title of the podcast is called Lightbox – Illuminating webcomics. Rob came up with the title and I think it’s pretty brilliant – especially since it concerns all of the subjects new or just starting out webcomic creators need to be aware of.

Rob hasn’t been able to participate in the last couple of episodes due to work responsibilities so Matt and I have held the fort down, so to speak. We took a little bit of a holiday break during Christmas and New Year’s but last week, we recorded our 10th episode. All of the podcasts can be found on iTunes or on Talkshoe if you follow the link above.

Thanks to all the controversy that erupted last week in the webcomics community, our Thursday night episode was devoted to forum and blog post etiquette. We tried our best to offer suggestions on ways to cope with heated internet exchanges and why – as new creators – you want to be careful about the image you project on the internet. Every week, we also try to include some kind of talk about tools or techniques that webcomic creators can use to perfect their craft. Matt’s just beginning to hand letter his strips so we talked about that a little bit and discussed tools that could help him improve his hand-lettering. That’s a feature we try to include on EVERY podcast.

If you’re a webcomic creator and you’d like to listen to how three web creators create their strip or what things we try to do to promote and grow our strip – from the perspective of being relatively new webcomic artists – we’d love for you to give us a try and see if our thoughts are more in line with where YOU might be with your own webcomic.

Thanks for reading.

Your man in discomfort,
Chris