Pesto Comics - Audio Edition

What’s Been Up Lately Big Smoke Pulp: Call for Entries Still Open We’re looking for your stories! Find out more about our new project coming this fall: Big Smoke Pulp If you have something I should read, be sure to send it. It’ll cost you nothing but your time (and could get you paid!) I’ve accepted enough to make up 30% of the book so far, so there’s still a time to get in. A Fun Couple of Weeken...

First, Some News A reminder of the big launch date! Crazy Latte Thing Called Love will be launching on Kickstarter Wednesday May 15th at 8am EDT . If you haven’t hit notify on the campaign page yet, there’s still time! We’ll have early bird deals, until the end of Friday May 17th (ending at 11:59pm EDT), that include deep discounts on already discounted bundles and early backer rewards every pledg...

First, Some News We have a launch date! Crazy Latte Thing Called Love will be launching on Kickstarter Wednesday May 15th at 8am EDT . If you haven’t followed the campaign yet, please do! We’ll have early bird deals for both digital and physical copies until the end of Friday May 17th (ending at 11:59pm EDT). How a Kickstarter launches really makes a difference for the algorithm, so your early sup...

A Fool and His Expo Pass aka The Plan and The Pivot What’s Next? April 15 A Personal Story - Il Pescatore My entry in "The City We Chose" by TO Comix May 1 In Through the Side Door How I found myself at [redacted] after being [redacted] This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit pestocomics.substack.com

Before we begin, some big news to share… Stay Cool: Sequential Magazine Award Nominee! Stay Cool has been nominated for two awards by the entertaining and informative Sequential Magazine : Be sure to vote! Voting ends March 31. I appreciate everyone who takes the time to go to this page and help put Stay Cool on the map. With that in mind, let’s talk about how… “Networking” Feels Gross In my day-t...

The Fallacy of “Comics Are Dying” I don’t have my head in the sand about the state of the comics industry. It’s not going gangbusters, for sure. Times have been better. Times where we didn’t need Funko pops to keep stores afloat or 400 variant covers to boost sales. But to say that comics are going to suddenly disappear from the face of the earth is a fallacy. There’s always going to be room for t...

Why cold, hard paper comics aren’t going anywhere… Reading Experience I mentioned last week that I really love the experience digital provides. It allows me to see everything huge and backlit. Sometimes with amazing resolution. It all makes the art pop…with one exception: two-page spreads. I’ve yet to find a good way to read these in digital and their impact is completely squashed in digital. But...

Happy February! Time is flying by, isn’t it? Before we dive into this week’s topic, I have a question for you… Thanks for that! Now, to the business of the day. I Prefer Digital Comics It’s blasphemous to the comics gods, I know. It doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy a good floppy or the fancy magazine-sized version you get from DSTRLY or DC Black Label. They look great and I love the ritual. There are ju...

Yes, Really! Garfield is underrated. Can Jim Davis’ creation be cringe from time to time? Absolutely. Over-exposed? Hell yeah (at least when I grew up.) Respected for how ubiquitous and successful it has become? Very rarely. -- Follow Pesto Comics at https://pestocomics.com Or on your favourite social media sites @pestocomics This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other s...

While procrastinating on these upcoming projects, I’ve made a MCU-inspired timeline for Pesto Comics in 2024. I’ve left the moonshot projects, particularly ones relying on government grants, off the timeline. Even without those, this is pretty ambitious. All of these projects are in progress, so I feel confident we can deliver as expected. I kept the windows open to seasons, like “spring 2024” to...

2023 Was a Huge Year! 2023 will forever be the year Pesto Comics came to be. It was something I had been planning and researching forever, but never got off the blocks. This year, I finally pulled the trigger. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit pestocomics.substack.com