By: Chris Flick
David, would you say acting is an objective or subjective skill? I would say at first glance, it might be easy to say that comparing coaching hitting with art criticism is a huge stretch. And yet, we...
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“And yet, we can look throughout many professional baseball teams and not see a single Steven Hawking employed as a hitting instructor. Why is that?” Because the team bus doesn’t have a wheelchair...
View ArticleBy: Dennis West
I am terribly inexperienced at sports, but I could sit on the sidelines and watch my 8 year old daughter play softball this summer and I could tell when she was swinging too early or too late or when...
View ArticleBy: Beeface
The thing is that failure in baseball isn’t the same as failure in forms of art. Pointing out to someone that they swing too early, or just that they aren’t hitting the ball, is useless in baseball,...
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Tony Gwynn, one of the best modern day baseball hitters, use to lug around tons of VHS tapes of every at bat he had in a game. These days, lots or professional hitters use video ipods to study their...
View ArticleBy: Dennis West
Thanks for reinforcing my decision to stay with the digital fonts. I’ve been self-conscious about it for a while now as I get closer and closer to going live. I’ve even recently toyed with the idea of...
View ArticleBy: Tomu
Now, is it like when you write down letters on your own, and those get translated into a font, so it can sort of “pull” from your handwriting? That’s kind of nifty.
View ArticleBy: Dennis West
Now, is it like when you write down letters on your own, and those get translated into a font, so it can sort of “pull” from your handwriting? That’s kind of nifty. Actually, i should look into that....
View ArticleBy: Chris Flick
There are some companies that will convert your handwriting into digital fonts. I use to have a link to one or two. Since we’re talking about critiques… :-) If you hand-letter your fonts, it will give...
View ArticleBy: Dennis West
Wow! I know this is off topic, but I just tried out Fontifier.com and created a font based on my handwriting. It’s pretty amazing! It really looks like my lettering! I think I just may use this! I...
View ArticleBy: Tomu
It’s also an example of how an individual criticism can then be criticized further in order to create a sort of compromise that is better than the false dichotomy of the original criticism or just...
View ArticleBy: More on Webcomic Creator vs. Critics » Comics Worth Reading
[...] sure everyone’s tired of the whole Scott Kurtz/webcomic book review/”are critics ever useful” debate by now (although I love that people are getting [...]
View ArticleBy: Dennis West
I’ve been reviewing my Webcomics Weekly Podcasts and here’s one that specifically addresses everyone’s thoughts on receiving criticism:...
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I think a lot of it is semantics. All I want is people who keep an open mind, and I suppose that’s their position.
View ArticleBy: You find this funny? « Blurred Productions
[...] Draper Carlson, of Comics Worth Reading, (whose work, for the record, I don’t even like) gave a pretty good review of Kurtz (and friends) new book, How to Make Webcomics. Carlson actually had...
View ArticleBy: News Story Followup: Webcomics, Middleman, Expensive Printing » Comics...
[...] the Webcomics book review, I guess I’ll have to start reading PvP — at least this [...]
View ArticleBy: moose river - August 30, 2008 - by philippe van lieu
[...] about how Scott Kurtz of PvP fame apparently threw a tantrum over a review of his (and three other guy’s) book about how to make webcomics titled “How To Make [...]
View ArticleBy: Backyard Frontier » Comics Worth Reading
[...] Dennis West emailed me to let me know that he’s just launched a weekdaily webcomic called Backyard Frontier, inspired to do so by How to Make Webcomics. [...]
View ArticleBy: Baltimore Comic-Con 2008: News From the Front » Comics Worth Reading
[...] pleasant conversation with Kris Straub and Brad Guigar about the reactions to my review of their webcomic book. They’re great guys, and I hope to get a chance to talk to Scott Kurtz as well...
View ArticleBy: Press Release How-Tos » Comics Worth Reading
[...] Guigar (Evil Inc.), one of the authors of How to Make Webcomics, expands on those instructions by covering how to write a press [...]
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