In this episode of Storyline Sessions, Aidee Sea, the author of After Death Comics, talks about many topics including the process of creating webcomics, building a community, differences between writing short form and long form stories and AI’s impact on art.

Timestamps:

00:00 – Start

00:54 – Conversation start

01:05 – Horrorween comics – 4 years running

02:32 – Long form comics

03:39 – The After Death Comics origin and mixing genres

07:05 – Aidee’s process

09:11 – Constructing stories in webcomics

12:07 – Deciding between ideas

14:56 – Keeping your style vs writing for the audience

18:06 – The business side of creative work

21:32 – Sponsorships, Patreon and crowd funding

25:05 – Separating yourself from your work

27:24 – Current events and universal feelings in comics

29:45 – AI and art

33:31 – People (not) stealing artists’ work

35:12 – Comic Collaborations

39:00 – Unexpected genre that Aidee would like to try

40:55 – Gaming and game influences

43:29 – Working on video games

46:38 – People and horror in different media

47:26 – Influences

50:11 – Writing and testing jokes

52:30 – Readers’ reactions and leaving clues for them

58:31 – How to keep readers engaged

1:01:07 – Limitations and creating different types of comics

1:02:34 – Other comic authors as inspiration

1:04:12 – Working on „traditional“ comics

1:06:46 – Horror film of the year

1:07:44 – Spoilers for the Barbarian (2022)

1:09:03 – Taking lessons from horror movies

1:09:35 – Future plans for After Death Comics

1:12:13 – Outro

You can find Aidee at linktr.ee/afterdeathcomics

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