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Screen Tones at TCAF!
Screen Tones is so excited to exhibiting at the Toronto Comic Arts Festival June 6 and 7! Stop on by our table on the Ice Court 244 and celebrate the wonderful world of webcomics with us!
Meet the Cast!
Throughout the show, you'll find Krispy, Varethane, Claire, Miranda, and Delphina at the Screen Tones and Studio Cartridge tables at 244 and 243. We'd love to hear from you if our podcast has helped you in your webcomic journey, and may have a little treat for you if you tell us about your webcomic!
Get our Books!
We'll have books and samplers of Into the Smoke, Ghost Junk Sickness, Lunar Blight, Chirault, Wychwood, Phantomarine, Into the Swell, and Sombulus to add to your comic collection! And check out our new zine, "How I Create My Webcomic" to dive into the behind-the-scenes process and musings of our creators.
Webcomic Stamp Rally
Grab a stamp card, explore the show and support our webcomic-making friends with a purchase, then come back to the Screen Tones table for FABULOUS PRIZES!
Ice Court (Floor 3)
- Sarah Webb (113A)
- Crystal Yates (220B)
- Studio Cartridge (243)
- Screen Tones (244)
Varsity Court (Floor 2)
- Maiji (073B)
- Windy and Wallflower (084)
- McKay and Gray (016B)
- Shoona Browning (074A)
- Rowan MacColl (043B)
- Megan Kearney (038A)
Keep an eye on our Bluesky for real-time updates before and during the show!
Patreon Secret Bonus Episodes!
Did you know? Our Patreon has secret bonus episodes, bloopers and behind-the-scenes content! A few recent Patron-only episodes from our growing collection:
Bonus Jam - What makes a webcomic?
Rae, Krispy and Varethane talk about the essence of webcomics, and if Homestuck counts.
Bonus Jam - Critiquing from the Critiquer's Point of View
Krispy, Claire, Miranda and Delphina talk about all the messy stuff around giving critique to another creator, and why it's important to do anyway.
Bonus Jam - Webcomic Expectations
Krispy, Miranda, and Delphina talk about all the weird stuff that's changed for us since we started our webcomics.
All your support helps us cover our Zencastr subscription costs and other fees, so we really appreciate it! You can also check out our Ko-Fi tip jar and digital goods store.
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Newest Episodes
Protagonists
Protagonists are the main leading characters of your webcomic who drive the story forward, and this can be through either internal arcs of development, external conflicts with antagonists, or both. Whether or not a reader is invested in those main characters can make or break your audience’s engagement with your story, so it’s worth exploring what makes these characters compelling to follow in a long-form webcomic.
Networking
Networking is a buzzword that can feel a little weird to use in webcomics, but what we’re talking about here is basically the concept of connecting with other creators. This can have a lot of benefits, like getting to share opportunities with other creators, helping share your audience with other creators, and generally make the whole process of making webcomics a lot less lonely. But it’s also something that can get a bit awkward if we don’t approach it in a natural or respectful way. So let’s talk about what that looks like!
SFX
Sound effects are a classic in comics for a reason: we have a flat noiseless page and sometimes we want to give it a noise or two! There are all kinds of approaches to integrating sound effects depending on the mood of the scene, so finding ways that work with your webcomic-making process is an exercise that can really make your story more immersive! Let’s talk about it!
Getting Back on the Horse
So you got hit with Life™ and haven’t worked on your comic in a while, and now you’re trying to get back to it, but are having troubles getting things going again. It may take time, but it’s never too late to get back on that horse and rebuild your confidence again. Join our hosts as they discuss tips and tricks to getting the comics horse saddled and back on the comics road.
That One Blorbo
All of us here may or may not have one or more characters that we favor in our webcomics, that we rotate in our minds slightly more than the other characters. We’ll borrow the term “blorbo” for whoever this is in your webcomic project. But webcomics take time, and telling a compelling story might make it so that you go a couple scenes (years) without that exciting blorbo. So let’s talk about that itch, that compulsion, because it can be a major motivating factor that keeps you fueled in your comic journey, but it can also be a roadblock when you are making parts of the story without them!