Speaking of Marvel Comics, their Editor/Talent Scout C.B. Cebulski regularly gives advice to artists and writers looking to break into comics on his Twitter feed. It’s well worth your time to subscribe to it.

For those of you who may be unaware, Wacom tablets come equipped with a number of buttons that you can program to perform specific tasks in individual programs. The idea behind this is to speed up your work flow by keeping your eyes on the screen, your hands on the pen and tablet and to use the mouse and keyboard as little as possible.

Never mind that rebuilding the button functions is a pain when you get a new computer or reinstall an OS. The tablet is notorious for just plain losing your settings at random and inopportune times, and you’ll often find yourself going back to the tablet setup to reassign the key functions when you should be drawing or painting. Well, no longer.

Installing the new driver also installs a small separate App called Remove Tablet Software that allows you to backup your custom settings to an external file and then restore them to the tablet preferences when the inevitable crash happens. I tested it out this morning and it works just fine. In fact, I was so emboldened by this new feature, I assigned tablet key functions to all of my favorite apps, not just Painter and Photoshop. I’m glad to give a warm welcome to this long overdue function in one of my favorite digital design tools.

You can download the new Wacom driver and the Remove Tablet Software app here.