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Hey there. My name is Barry, and I write and draw a comic called "Hereville." I actually began Hereville in 2005, I think, but it petered out and I didn't do anything with it for a couple of years. I've recently begun drawing it again. The first sixteen pages are currently up at http://www.hereville...

If it's pure black and white, make sure that you create the pdf file you give lulu at 600dpi bitmap. If the file you give them is good, you'll probably get good results.

If you haven't already done so, it's worthwhile to read the entire discussion in this thread (not just the opening post).

It looks much better now, imho.

I think it's important to include non-white characters in all comics where an all-white cast isn't required by the situation. I have to admit that my own comic, which is set in an isolated Ashkenazi Jewish community, has an entirely white cast (so far). My political cartoons frequently include chara...

In my opinion, it is too much. I think it's a nice idea, but the background design should be much subtler -- something that readers notice after they've looked at the page a while, rather than the first thing that pops out at viewers when they view the page. The same design with much less color cont...

Here's something I recently started doing when I had a long scene that took place in a forest... but it only works if you draw your comics digitally. I started a separate file, which I named "forest elements." Every time I had to draw a tree, I drew it on a separate layer from everything else in the...