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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