One of my new favorite blogs

I read a lot of blogs--try to any way.  I can't keep up, and the ones I pick up regularly and read sort of shift around with what I'm doing, and what's being blogged.  Lately, I've been paying a lot of attention to webcomics.com - Comics news and how-tos for the modern cartoonist

I started my own web comic Saltwater Witch in November 2008, with a steady weekly posting, learning a lot along the way, and webcomics.com has been like a jump start for me.

I've been using Wacom tablets for several years, and it took a while to get used to--actually I'll say there was immediate and gratifying results, followed by months and months of working better with the device, of getting used to looking at the screen with the pen on the desk, mastering brush and property changes in different apps, Photoshop CS, Painter, etc.

If you're new to tablets or not, here's a great article by Chairlie Gavin on the Wacom what and how:
http://webcomics.com/2009/02/03/getting-started-with-a-wacom-tablet/

Here's a video of the Web Comics panel at Vericon with Kris Straub (starslip.com), Catherynne Valente (catherynnemvalente.com) and Brad Guigar (evil-comic.com)

Vericon IX Webcomics Panel from Kris Straub on Vimeo.

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