I’ve had some requests for booklists for learning comics. I posted this list in 2006. I’ll update it later but for now, here it is: Recommended Books WRITING first, then COMICS and CRAFT Peter Elbow: Writing Without Teachers “The core of Elbow’s thinking is a challenge against traditional writing … Continue reading
Category Archives: Process
Oblique Comix Strategies
Oblique Comix Strategies time to revisit these A large block of text Summarize the most important part Narrated by a third party who we see Why so little suspense? Foreigners, their language(s) Blank spaces, blank panels Duplicate panels Give character what she wants but make her work for it Work … Continue reading
Justine’s Overlays
Justine has been tutoring her Gainesville students in inking techniques. Our student C.J. has allowed us to show her art and Justine’s overlays. Justine and I always work with our students in person and online, to help them articulate their ideas in the best and clearest way possible. These are … Continue reading
SAW Micro – Grants
Micro-grants for cartoonists SAW is committed to offering small grants between $250-$500 to practicing artists. Two small $250 grants will be awarded on Sept 15, 2012 and then again on April 15, 2013. Eligible artists must be developing and dedicated to a current project. Instructions for applying: please complete and … Continue reading
On Not Shooting the Outline, Part 2
I wrote about not shooting the outline, last year, here on my teaching blog. Here’s a great example in progress as Leela finishes Unterzakhn. I noted while going through the manuscript that it needed a bridge before (beware the spoilers!) Minna throws Esther out of the house when she finds … Continue reading
Finishing Unterzakhn 2
Still working on finishing Unterzakhn. Reordering, deleting, cutting, pasting, Leela is busy drawing new panels and pages, Some screen shots: Great dry brush on this vomiting woman. Lee felt the characters needed to be split apart in this panel. Note the profile in the negative space of the last panel. … Continue reading
Unterzakhn in Progress
Leela has been hard at work finishing Unterzakhn since we relocated to Gainesville. She’s been busy with productions, adding tones, rewrites, re-draws and I’ve been editing, compiling, serving as Walter Murch to her Francis Ford Coppola. This is an accurate analogy. Leela has approached this project very organically, with high … Continue reading