Jim (TTL Demag0gue)

Celtx – Scripting Software

Celtx - Scripting Software

I recently download a piece of software I’d heard about from a couple of artists in the webcomics community. It was a program called celtx and is used as a pre-production tool for film, audio-visual, theatre, audio plays, storyboards, and comic books. Since celtx is free to download and use, I had no hesitation about [...]

HowTo: You Pick!

HowTo: You Pick!

Halo 3 Webcomics is here to help you with tips and tricks for producing your own webcomic – Halo-based or not. As such, we want to know it is you’d like to know more about. Leave a comment with your requests and suggestions, and we’ll try to shed a little more light on that particular [...]

Publishing Webcomics with WordPress and ComicPress

Publishing Webcomics with WordPress and ComicPress

You’ve got a great comic idea, you’ve got the first handful of issues all made up, and you want to publish to the web. All you need now is a showcase for your comic so that people can admire your handiwork. Here are a couple of my favorite tools that will allow you to do [...]

HowTo: Making Good Text Balloons

HowTo: Making Good Text Balloons

One of the most important things about making comics is creating good text balloons, and it seems that a lot of webcomics creators have trouble creating balloons that have properly sized flags and that leave enough room for their dialogue. This tutorial will show you how to use Photoshop to create balloons that will look [...]

New Webcomics

New Webcomics

I’d like to welcome three new webcomics to H3W. Chaos Theory, Dead, and X36 were the inaugural comics on H3W. Now 2501, Shock, and Post War join the roster and promise to bring strong, engaging stories to the menu. I’d recommend going and checking each of these six comics out, bookmarking the sites or adding [...]

Comic Style Fonts – Blambot

Comic Style Fonts - Blambot

One thing that a digital comic creator needs is fonts – and lots of them. Fortunately, one great source for comic book fonts is Blambot. They serve up a wide variety of comic book fonts for dialogue, design, sound effects, and symbols. A number of industry comic book labels – like Dark Horse, Marvel, DC, [...]

Some Basic Housekeeping

First, to all of you who have sent me emails about hosting Halo-based webcomics with H3W, allow me to apologize for taking so long in getting back to you. In retrospect, it probably wasn’t the smartest idea to announce Halo 3 Webcomics right before the holidays, particularly the part about offering hosting. The holidays were [...]

Halo 3 Webcomics

I’m pleased to announce the official launch of Halo 3 Webcomics, a collective for other Halo 3 comics writers to share their stories. It’s my opinion that one of the biggest barriers to publishing a webcomic is affordable hosting. I’m donating space on my server for anyone who wants to publish a Halo-based webcomic to [...]