Thank you for joining us for our inaugural Nib and Ink Fest! We had an incredible month of free events, ranging from panels on how to improve your comics craft to portfolio reviews. You can watch replays of every NIF event at the Cartoonist Cooperative’s YouTube channel. We hope you had a great time during NIF 2025, and we hope to see you again next year for NIF 2026!
*We are unable to offer VODs for “The Dangers of Influence, and the Unintentional Artist” and the NSFW Portfolio Review.
Live round table with Jordie Bellaire. Jordie will critique the coloring portfolios of participants as a group. All skill levels welcome. For cartoonists and those with interest in becoming professional colorists. If you’d like to submit your portfolio for review, please follow this link to the submission portal! Catch a replay of this event on […]
A lot of artists dislike drawing backgrounds. Partly because they are a lot of work but also because the characters and the story are the FUN part of making a comic. This panel is to go over how to approach backgrounds in a way that treat them as extensions of the characters and characters unto […]
Do all of your dramatic scenes sometimes feel a little flat? Do they sometimes feel like they’re over-the-top and a little too MUCH? Well there’s a time for drama and there’s a time for melodrama, and finding that line is often a balancing act between script, dialog, pacing, paneling, camera, balloons and art composition. In […]
Webcomic Day is an online, community-oriented event organized by NIF’s friends, the Screen Tones Cast! What is #WebcomicDay? Webcomics have been around since the very early stages of the internet, and from then, have steadily grown in popularity over the years. From readers to creators, webcomics have made a sizable impact on the creative community […]
Small or large, webcomic collectives have a rich history, and can help independent webcomic creators combine their skills as a group to make the path much easier! Join Delphina, Max, Darwin, Eliushi, Sskessa, and Kimmy of the SpiderForest Webcomic Collective in this one-hour discussion and Q&A session about what a webcomic collective is, the various […]
A rundown on what RSS is, how webcomics can utilize it, and how readers can organize what they’re reading. This event is for webcomic creators and readers alike. Catch a replay of this event on the Cartoonist Cooperative’s YouTube channel!
Join Lacey of LIES WITHIN, Nero of ULTRAVIOLENTS and SPLIT CHECK, Bob of INTO THE SMOKE and DEMON OF THE UNDERGROUND, and Kody of KEEPING TIME as they chat about the different ways they approach crafting their webcomics. Each artist will share snippets from their process at varying stages: from script and thumbnails to pencils […]
Three creators talk about their experiences with transitioning their experimental fancomics into original work. Spicyyeti will be telling you why every artist should just start publishing their comics on their own websites, and going through his process for more experimental webcomics between both fan (Jade Route, Y12k) and original (Godhead) projects. Max Banshees will be […]
There’s more to the comics industry than inks and nibs! Every day, millions of people make this industry work without ever picking up a pencil or writing a line of script. Join Hye Mardikian (pre-press/graphic designer), Kevin Wilson (web designer), and Kel McDonald (editor) in a panel talking about all the different ways one can […]
Anyone can find a basic step-by-step guide to making comics, but how do you create comics and manga that truly make the reader FEEL something? Comic creators Michelle Stanford (Centralia 2050) and Matt McEwan (Ruin) break down how they use art, lettering, layout and sound effects to imbue every part of their comics with story. […]
