I love what comics can do and I love teaching this comics workshop. Yesterday we were talking about panels and when to use larger or smaller panels. We found this page from Craig Thompson’sย Blankets, where we see a narrowย panel of Craig’s mom waving goodbye, and then a large vignette of Craig driving away, leaving his…
I recently came across this great post from Adam Rex on his process for illustrating the picture bookย Chu’s Day, written by Neil Gaiman, and thought I’d pass it along. The post is a brief overview of the roughly 6-month process that Adam put into creatingย Chu’s Day.ย (Adam mentions in the comments that “I can work on…
Author Hugh Howey (Wool) talks about writing characters that the reader cares about: CHARACTERS WE LOVE What are some characters that you’ve read about and love? What makes them interesting to read about? Post your comments below!
(Continued from Part 1) HOW DOES A COMIC WORK? One of the big questions we are asking in class is “how does a comic work?” Of course we want to know what a comic is and how to make one, but we’re doing so from the inside-out. We’re taking it apart to understand it. For…
LEARN HOW TO MAKE COMICS | JUNE 10-14 Just a quick reminder that I’ll be teaching a 5 day comics workshop next week for children ages 13-18. Classes will be held atย Higher Ground Learningย in Salt Lake City, June 10-14, and will cover everything from generating and filtering story ideas to developing characters and story arcs,…
Trubble Club has just launched The Infinite Corpse, a new collaborative online comic that is “open to everyone in the world who makes or wants to make comics.” Basically it’s an enormous add-on comic, where each creator is asked to follow the previous three panels with three of their own. The comic is now open…
Sci-fi writer Ray Bradbury comments on his career and his sources of inspiration on Day at Night. “You can only go with loves in this life.”