Now the landscape of comic strips have changed but the books haven't. Those books really helped me feel that my unexplainable desire to make these comics was valid and legitimate. Said Kurtz, "I grew up devouring any book I could find on how to make and sell newspaper comic strips. We wanted to be involved in ushering in the new breed of creators and help them succeed." "We're really on the cusp of a huge explosion in webcomics," Guigar added. The hope is to create a one-stop read that springboards readers past the ten-year learning curve that we went through." "It's really the book we wish had existed when we were starting out," Dave Kellett said, "an all-encompassing guide to webcartooning that tells you what to do, how to do it, and why certain things do and don't work, online. Everyone wants to know 'how to,' not so much 'why.'" There's a lot of discussion of theory and relevance of webcomics as a new art form, but that's academics to me. And part of the impetus for me was that no other webcomics book that's come out (of the two that exist, anyway) were really written by webcartoonists. Said Kristofer Straub, " was a great launching pad for our discussions, because we'd just keep going after the recording ended. So, when Scott mentioned the book he and Kris were working on, I was literally jumping for a chance to be involved." And my attempts to put one together on my own and self-publish it always seems to end up at a low priority. "The publishers I pitched didn't know from webcomics, so I was shut out. "Heck, I've been trying to pitch this very book to publishers ever since my 'Everything Cartooning' book came out," said Brad Guigar. People are hungry for shop talk about making webcomics." Then we started the Webcomics Weekly podcast and response to it was so overwhelmingly good and positive that we knew that it was time for a book like this.
"Maybe I felt it was too egotistical for me to attempt to write some definitive tome on making webcomics. "I've toyed with the idea of writing this myself for years but always put it off for fear that people would react poorly to it," said Scott Kurtz of the impetus of producing an instructional book on webcomics.
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