http://blog.zingerding.com Creating Tomorrow's Comic Strip Cartoonists Sat, 05 Jul 2008 17:58:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en One of the fastest ways to get started creating comic strips is to start with a blank comic strip template. What is a blank comic strip template? A blank comic strip template is a file created in a image editing software such as Photoshop or illustrator that is set up to standard ... http://blog.zingerding.com/2008/07/03/blank-comic-strips/ Who Wrote the Peanuts Comic Strip? is a common question these days since it has been a long time since a new Peanuts strip was published (although Classic Peanuts are still published in many newspapers today). Charles M. Schultz was the only author and illustrator of the Peanuts comic strip from ... http://blog.zingerding.com/2008/06/27/who-wrote-the-peanuts-comic-strip/ Do you remember when you read the comics every day? I do and I miss it a ton. I remember tearing open the paper to read the latest Far Side, something that was more important to me than the news itself. In thinking back to those days, I ... http://blog.zingerding.com/2008/06/19/remember-when-you-read-the-comics-every-day/ The lightbulb is the punchline. So what's the best number of panels to use to get there? Of course you know it can depend. Assuming we're talking about the typical newspaper strip format, let's explore what panel count does to a strip. A comic strip is limited ... http://blog.zingerding.com/2008/01/21/how-many-panels-does-it-take-to-screw-in-a-lightbulb/ Yo Zingerfans. It's time to look at how your characters interact with each other. In reading comic strips, I see a lot of 'surprise' responses to what one says to another, especially in the final panel of a strip during that crucial punchline. You know how it goes. Your ... http://blog.zingerding.com/2008/01/17/are-your-characters-too-surprised-by-each-other/ Any great comic strip cartoonist will agree that "good writing can save poor art - but good art cannot help bad writing". This is true and you can't get around it. Many cartoonists become cartoonists because they love to draw. The instant appeal of comic strips is the art. ... http://blog.zingerding.com/2008/01/15/the-number-one-rule-of-comic-stripping/ Most likely your idea already includes some characters, a setting and a context. We use a context rather than story in comic strips because most strips are not based on a single linear storyline from strip to strip. Even for those that do, the short format of a ... http://blog.zingerding.com/2008/01/08/i-have-an-idea-for-a-comic-strip-now-what/ Where do you begin? All creative endeavors start with an idea. But where do you get this idea? This new strip of yours has got to include characters, a setting, written and visual styles, but a comic strip can't rely on any of those things alone. ... http://blog.zingerding.com/2008/01/05/you-want-to-create-a-comic-strip-eh/ Egads! Has it been since May that I last posted?! Where have the months gone? Fear not, readers - the Zingerding Blog is coming back in January 2008. Readers? Do we still have readers? Is this thing on? Hello?   What's on the horizon, you ask? Hank and I have been ... http://blog.zingerding.com/2007/12/22/this-blog-isnt-dead-after-all/ Well Zingerfans, I have to admit that we've been holding out on you. Zingerding is not merely a blog. It's a plot to change the face of the funny pages forever. Today we announce Zingerding.com, a new website that will push the boundaries of what the internet ... http://blog.zingerding.com/2007/05/14/announcing-the-future-of-comic-strips/