2023 — The Year in Review
Comic Lab
English - December 28, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour - 58.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 294 ratingsVisual Arts Arts Leisure Animation & Manga artist makingcomics cartoonist cartoonists comics comicbook comicbooks comiccon comiclab comicstrip Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Veteran cartoonists Dave Kellett and Brad Guigar look back on their predictions for 2023. They nailed a few and failed a few!
PREDICTION SCORECARD
Patreon will slowly entice people away from the Founder's level -- WRONGTikTok will be banned in the US -- WRONGCSP will unveil amazing features / Webtoons publishing -- RIGHTWebtoons publishing -- RIGHTTwitter fade -- RIGHTDC Comics implosion -- RIGHTNo one will be using Mastodon (in large enough numbers to replace Twitter) -- RIGHTGPT 3.5 will be used for brainstorming and co-writing scripts using AI writing -- RIGHT?We'll see the first AI writing-art webcomic... and it will be good --WRONGCopyright law will catch up to AI art -- WRONGBlockchain is coming back -- WRONGOriginal art will become more valuable.What we DIDN'T predict!
Patreon's switch to social mediaComic-Con loses its Hall H guests — and it was a big win for comics artistsNo replacement for Twitter... not BlueSky, not Threads (and definitely not Mastodon!)You get great rewards when you join the ComicLab Community on Patreon
$2 — Early access to episodes$5 — Submit a question for possible use on the show AND get the exclusive ProTips podcast. Plus $2-tier rewards.Brad Guigar is the creator of Evil Inc and the author of The Webcomics Handbook. Dave Kellett is the creator of Sheldon and Drive.