Follow us on Inkoutbreak

In my questing to find ways to promote Protege, a few months back I came across a cool site called Inkoutbreak. Let’s be real — there’s millions of comics out there by pros and non-pros, and sometimes it’s as hard to find good content as it is for creators to get their work noticed. According to the founder Brian King, Inkoutbreak is trying to make both those things easier, as you can read from what I pasted from the site:

Inkoutbreak.com is basically the easy way to follow and discover comics. For a reader this allows them to follow your comic without a reader or bookmarks. Why wouldn’t they just have a RSS reader? Well some of us readers are reading a few comics while we sit at work and slack off for a few minutes. Or then you have the not so tech savvy that does not understand what that orange block is on your comic. I’m not saying I want to replace RSS, or anything like that. I just want to make it easy for a reader to stay up to date with your comic, and for you to gain more readers that constantly check out your updates.

One other handy feature is Inkoutbreak will bookmark the last page you read, so if you’ve missed a couple updates you won’t have to worry about opening the wrong screen and dealing with spoilers.

To follow Protege on Inkoutbreak click the button in the box below:

It’s a great idea Mr. King has and I hope it works out. Go check out Inkoutbreak and find some cool comics.

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Greg Rucka’s Dispatches

As much as I dig Greg Rucka‘s exceptional work in comics and novels, lately I’ve been reading and re-reading his posts about the process of writing (or, as he puts, it “Greg blathers on about Writing”). Sure, you should check out Greg and Rick Burchett’s steampunk/pirate/western mash-up webcomic Lady Sabre to see a master storyteller spinning a good fun yarn. But if you want to hear him dropping wisdom about the craft of writing, read his Dispatches section on the site.

Some of my favorite re-reads are his posts on the purpose and intention of drama, commitment to the process, and the courage to fail. I met Greg briefly when he spoke at Nunzio DeFilippis‘  Writing for Sequential Art class at UCLA (where I developed Protege) and he’s as passionate about writing and comics in person as he is on the page. When I heard Greg was coming out with a webcomic around the time I was considering whether or not to release Protege online, that sealed the deal for me.

What’s great for me about the Lady Sabre site is that Greg is generous enough to share an inside look at his process as a writer, of creating a webcomic, and he even provides his script pages below the art panels. Lady Sabre is a great read and a great resource, and you can’t beat that.

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Rough Draft

Here’s an example of how the art and dialogue can change before the final page is posted. In the case of the dialogue, I sometimes tweak it right up until the page gets uploaded (and even then I’m not always happy with the end result).

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