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you’re reading…​ Blog Writing for the love of it is back By Alverne Ball Hi, Sorry I’ve been away for a very long time. The truth is my hard drive crashed about a year ago and I lost a lot of info when it came to websites such as this and I couldn’t for the life of me remember how to navigate back to it. I know. It’s a shame that I relied on technology so much.

Blog By Alverne Ball The other day a young creator twittered me a message asking how I started out in making comics. After relating a story where I tried to learn everything I could about the production of comics before jumping in feet first and learning on the go I came to the idea that this entry should be about how to start making comics. Once you’ve got your idea, the job as creator is to either write the tale or find someone that can write it for you.

I’ve been thinking about ways to promote indie comics. Perhaps if we could put together our own "Idol" competition for comics. We could get a lot of publicity for the competitors. It would give us a chance to talk about what we like and what we don’t like. We could establish some minimum requirements. These standards would help define when the aspiring maker was ready to compete. I think it would inspire comic book makers.

Blog By Alverne Ball So I’ve been trying to think about what to write for this blog, which I have no name for, wait, I think I just discovered what it’ll be called. How about "writing for the love of it". So that’s what this blog is going to be called and since this is the first of what I hope will be many let’s start with the inevitable. If you’re going to write comics then you have to first write for the love of it.

By Ted Bergeron ⋅ December 6, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment I’ll be making some new images for the website. I’m going to try to make a couple of new header images. These are 965 x 70 pixels. I like the idea of an open comic book. My goal is to come up with some logo that will be used here and on the wiki 135 x 135 pixels. And I want to develop all kinds of buttons and banners that members can link back to us.

Welcome to the beginning. I’ve created this website with the intention of helping others make comics and share comics. I teach a making comic books class at my local Community College. I find that many people have a desire to create stories but not very many people know what all goes into making comics. After they’ve made some comics the next question is usually how do I get published? Which generally translates into how do I become rich and famous making comics.