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    New Year Resolutions for 2010 Follow-up

    Jan11
    by Barry Buchanan on January 11, 2011 at 6:28 pm
    Posted In: Misc

    Happy New Years to you all. I am not big on resolutions for myself but this is the 3rd  I’ve done for www.dontfeedthegeek.com Check out last year’s post here.

    Let’s take a look at how I did on 2010’s goals for DFTG:

    Goals for 2010

    1. Increase traffic. Duh. Success. With the exception of December every month was an increase in traffic. It looks like I almost tripled my traffic.

    2. Participate more in the webcomic community and find new heroes to follow. Success. I met many new cartoonists and fans of webcomics. Some of the folks I “met” I only met virtually, but still made new friends and heroes.

    3. Publish a book. I’m close to finishing this one. I just need to finish some original art that will only be available in the book. And then have the guts to spend the money to do it. The mock ups look decent so far I must say. I hired Krishna to do the cover and that looks fantastic. In this case I want people to judge a book by it’s cover. I was hesitant to have someone else to do the cover but I see many examples of far superior artists have someone else design the cover, I had the good sense to ask Krishna to do it. Success. My book is out at the beginning of the year. The reaction was decent just like the end product. I learned a lot for next time. Buy the book here.

    4. Have a table at least 2 expos in 2010. Fail. In 2010 I still only made the one expo, DWEX in Plano Texas.

    5. Get more mentions on other sites, positive mentions. 2009 was great as I “met” many great cartoonists who actually looked at my toons and some even had good things to say. Success. I was mentioned, did a guest comic for another site, got reviewed, and was mentioned on a blog.

    Goals for 2011:

    1. Create at least one comic book. My next book will be a more traditional comic book style. I found where I will have it printed. If it looks good a may do more than one with different themes.

    2. Have a more successful comic expo. I did OK in the last expo, but I was too laid back. I need to self promote better. Hopefully, I’ll have more products to sell.

    3. Double my web traffic.

    4. Start a new B&W comic. I have some plans for a new strip I’m trying to develop. If I do it, it will be kept simple and will be more about the writing. I can tell you it will be more focused on family humor. I’m trying to secure the URL I want for it and it is available in January hopefully. So I won’t give the name just now. I want to keep it simple enough so I can produce it faster. Right now my full color DFTG toon takes 3 hours minimum and usually much longer. I will still be doing DFTG for those that actually read it now.

    5. Master Manga Studio and step my comic’s style to a professional looking art. This is my most ambitious goal and the hardest to achieve. I’m getting closer but not sure I’m close.

    Let’s get back together one year from now and see how I did again. happy New Year. I hope your coming year is your best and that God blesses you and your family. Thanks for reading this year.

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    The First Don’t Feed The Geek Book!

    Jun02
    by Barry Buchanan on June 2, 2010 at 6:29 pm
    Posted In: Toons

    My first book has arrived. I ordered my book through www.instantpublisher.com and they had it to me within 10 days. I must say I’m very happy with the end product. The cover was done by my interweb buddy Krishna Sadasivam and it may be the best part of the book and really sets the tone. The book is B&W with some color pages and a total of 60 pages. The price of an all color book was greater than I was willing to pay. I think the B&W and color mix works well though. I was very worried of the quality of the final product so I did a short run. I had also not heard of any other cartoonist using Instant Publisher. So far everyone who has seen it has been very complimentary. I highly recommend Instant Publisher, they were great to work with. They have a great utility on their site to do a price quote that is fun to play with the variations. If you are considering a book at least check out the price generator.

    My plan is to sell these at the upcoming Dallas Web Comic Expo. I have not really put much thought into how to sell them on my webpage. I know I can create some options to use Pay-pal on my page but honestly have not investigated that much. I’m not sure if the demand will be high enough to put forth the needed effort. :) I suppose I could just deal with people who want a book one on one for now. Maybe have them put the money in Pay-pal and then I’d send the book? Again, I think I’ll wait and see what the demand is. I’ve actually sold several copies and had some readers “pre-order” the book so we will see how it goes. I hope they sell well enough that I have to make another order right away.

    Regardless, the process has been a lot of fun and I learned a lot. If I do another book, I’ll do a much better job. I hope this one does enough sales to justify the next book. The price of the book is $12 but I may sell it cheaper at DWEX as a promotional thing. The nice thing is my investment is not high so if I sell half of the books I can break even. I think considering my webcomic, breaking even is a lofty goal.

    Here are some pics, I’m wearing my “hacker” shirt for today’s photo:

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    My first animation-Vote For Judge Bo Lumpkin(animation)

    Apr05
    by Barry Buchanan on April 5, 2010 at 6:34 pm
    Posted In: Toons

    I just started playing with some new animation software. I have a project I’m working on but as a quick exercise I wanted to do a animation with lip syncing. My web buddy and fellow wanna-be cartoonist Bo Lumpkin(as if that’s his real name, it isn’t actually) www.Bolumpkin.com does some funny cartoons and videos. i decided to take one of his old videos and his character and animate it. It was fairly easy once all the components were draw. Drawing 10 different mouths shapes took a while. I use Anime Studios Debut and I liked it a lot and recommend everyone at least try the free trial that is interested in animation. The only complaint I have is there was no built in tool to make the video web ready. It took longer finding a way to reduce the file size of the default sizes. Anyway I hope to do more of these as well. Like I said the Bo Lumpkin, www.bolumpkin.com , really lends itself well to this kind of animation.

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    Emily's toon

    Guest Cartoonist (My 10 year old)

    Aug31
    by Barry Buchanan on August 31, 2008 at 2:44 pm
    Posted In: Guests

    All the “real” webcomics out there have guests cartoonist at times, so I want in. Here is a cartoon by Emily my 5th grader. Don’t comment unless it is to encourage her. She has so much potential in many things and she is funny to boot.

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    Having Coffee with Scott Kurtz

    May23
    by Barry Buchanan on May 23, 2008 at 2:39 pm
    Posted In: Toons

    Coffee with Scott:So did I mention I had coffee with Scott Kurtz today? It came about because he responded to an email about my copy of “How to Make Webcomics”, which I ordered nearly 2 months ago. Instead of being defensive or making excuses, he flat out apologized! Since his office is in the same town I live in, he offered to meet me somewhere and he’d give me my book.

    So we met and again he acknowledged the breakdown in his system. He was very cool and listened to me ramble a bit about my view on webcomics and other assorted nonsense. He made some great observations on his book and what they were trying to do. I even bought him a coffee and his helper a cup of coffee. He actually offered to buy me a coffee and had to be convinced to let me treat. I’m a bit of a shy person so I find meeting people a challenge. Meeting someone with a bit of fame does not make much of a difference but there was that too. Scott was very cool and genuine and I appreciate the time he took for a fan. I had said in emails to him that I would not buy direct from him again, but I just might now. Especially if he gets his order delivery process fixed. The nice thing was I thought I faked not be in awe well. Not a big fan of fan-boys any time, but being one of them is less appealing.

    Now for the book that started this all:I have not gotten deep in to , mostly because I keep flipping back to the inside cover where there is a great sketch of Brent. I can say as I was flipping through it I realize how much ‘actual’ useful information it contains. I have already seen things to improve and understand what I’m trying to do. If you are interested at all in making webcomics I think this may be the first ‘must-read’ book. Then again being a newbie in this I may just be full of crap as usual. I know I’m having a blast at this and if I never sell a single ad or make a single dollar, this is just fun.

    Normally I would attempt a toon to go with this blog, but that would be way too intimidating. I do have an idea for toon thought of today that I’ll do in a separate post later today.

    Thanks Scott for everything!

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