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Brad Guigar joins Brian Dunaway and Joel Duggan to talk about his webcomic Evil Inc., Patreon NSFW Comics and Webcomics.Com. It’s Spectacular!
About the Comic: |
Evil Inc. |
| https://evil-inc.com |
| Evil Inc. is about an international corporation run by super-villains. Rebooted in January, the story now takes place at the Fairmount branch of the Evil Inc corporation. The mostly senile CEO, Dr. Whoosh, has mistakenly hired a civilian, Thea Rhutman, to be the branch manager. Evil Inc is no longer a comic strip, rather, it’s a graphic novel updated in two partial-page installments a week. All of the characters who carried over from the original Evil Inc comic strip start from the beginning, with no pre-existing relationships or ties. |
Other comics |
| Brad’s other comics include: Courting Disaster (https://www.Courting-Disaster.com) — a comic originally produced to accompany a newspaper sex-advice column. Courting Disaster lives on in a NSFW version for Guigar’s Patreon backers; Phables (www.phables.com) — a weekly journal-style comic about everyday life in Philadelphia (nominated for the Eisner Award); Arch Bros (www.Arch-Bros.com) — A comic strip about two gradeschool-aged brothers… a superhero and a supervillain; Guigar.com (www.Guigar.com) — Single-panel cartoons in the tradition of The Far Side; and Tales from the Con (https://www.emeraldcitycomicon.com/Media/Tales-From-The-Con/#) — a weekly comic Guigar writes about comic conventions for Emerlad City Comic Con. |
Books |
| https://webcomics.com/store/products/category/the-webcomics-handbook/ |
| Guigar wrote “The Everything Cartooning Book” in 2004, co-wrote “How To Make Webcomics” in 2008, and wrote “The Webcomics Handbook” in 2014. |
Webcomics.com |
| Brad Guigar launched Webcomics.com as a subscription site in 2010, and ever since, he has been posting five times a week with tutorials, information, news and advice for cartoonists who use the Web to publish their work. |
Surviving Creativity |
| Scott Kurtz and Brad Guigar — two of the original members of the “Webcomics Weekly” podcast — are joined by Toonhound Studios business manager Cory Casoni to talk about life as creative professionals. |
About Artist: |
| Webcomics pioneer Brad Guigar has been doing a daily comic strip since February 2000. Tens of thousands read Evil Inc every day on the Web and in newspapers. He has published over a dozen printed collections of his work, and he has been nominated for an Eisner award — the top honor in the comics industry. Guigar is the author of “The Everything Cartooning Book.” He co-wrote the seminal “How To Make Webcomics Book,” and he wrote its sequel, “The Webcomics Handbook.” His podcasts include Surviving Creativity, Webcomics Weekly, Webcomics Confidential and Hey Comics — Kids! (a podcast he records with his two boys on their drive to school). Guigar is an adjunct professor at Hussian School of Art, teaching Arts Entrepreneurship and Sequential Art. |
Show Notes |
| For those new to your work, how long have you been working in webcomics? |
| Hey! You rebooted Evil Inc in January after 10 years of Evil…how much of a reboot was this? Did you get any guff? |
| How has Patreon changed your approach to comics? |
| You recently broke through a plateau on Patreon by offering NSFW comics. “Patreon was a way, after fifteen years, for my readers to tell me me what they really wanted me to be doing.” was a quote from a recent Surviving Creativity episode. |
| Did that bother you at all? |
| Is making NSFW comics a natural transition for you? |
| How are you drawing Evil Inc these days? |
| Podcasting |
| How did Surviving Creativity come about? |
