Author Sean Kleefeld

Jeff Smith first began drawing figures that would eventually become Bone characters when he was five years old. By the time he was nine, he was drawing the characters into his own hand-made comics. When he got...

You've no doubt seen something like this happen: a group tries to initiate a public relations campaign online to try to improve their popularity, only to have it tremendously backfire. Just in the past few...

I think most readers are generally aware that any creator puts some degree of themself into their work. For those creating fictional narratives like books, movies, and comics, it's not uncommon for the writer...

"Tartwater does an excellent job in essentially setting her main character along the Fool's Journey without really replicating the classical path characters often take there." Shamsee: A Fistful of...

Why am I doing this? Why am I writing a weekly column specifically about webcomics? After all, this whole site is devoted to pop culture and we have a whole section here on comics—why put additional effort...

"I was impressed that Guarente was able to start with Trevor being a disconnected, unlikeable ass, and still make a decent transition to a character than readers can actually root for." Satan's...

As you may be aware, the 1966 Batman television show is, at long last, getting released on home video. Despite airing in syndication for years, a byzantine morass of legal paperwork kept anyone from actually...

Ben Towle completed his webcomic Oyster War about a month ago and, having a little time to reflect on it, put together a summary of what worked and what didn't in the production of his first long-form...

"I don't think I've seen anyone go to the lengths that Curio & Co. have gone, and certainly no one who's done such a thorough and well-executed job." Spaceman Jax Publisher: Curio &...

Let's say you've started a webcomic. You've got a few weeks of strips posted, and you've managed to get a little attention via some news outlets, and maybe you've even splurged for a few banner ads. You don't...