Read on to learn more about: Creating my 224-page rough draft in 3 weeks while stuck in bed Finding beta readers to proofread my graphic novel Setting up surveys and forms to gather feedback from beta readers Using reader feedback to revise my graphic novel Hi! My name is Jess Smart Smiley. I’m an author/illustrator…
The Good News: being stuck in bed with constant, debilitating pain for the past 14+ months afforded me more reading time than I usually get. The Bad News: much of my reading time and enjoyment was cut short by the effects of medicine (headaches, brain fog, memory and concentration issues). That being said… 2019 was…
Check out these stunning photos of Cormorant fisherman Lao Huang by photographer Peter Yan. His last name is Huang, and he is 86 years old. The locals call him Lao Huang (meaning old Huang in Chinese). He told me he’s been a fisherman ever since he was a kid, and both he and his brother…
[reposted from My Modern Met] “Last year, over the course of a month and a half, Pixar story artist Emma Coats grabbed the Internet’s attention when she shared some of Pixar’s golden rules of storytelling, via Twitter. They were guidelines that she had learned, that she wanted to pass along to others. There were 22…
Watch out—today I am unleashing… THE CHAIN GANG is a hilarious 1,000-page ultra comic about a group of unwanted and forgotten bicycles led by Poppa Wheelie that band together to wreak havoc on the world, one neighborhood at a time! Instead of waiting years for me to draw all 1,000 pages, I’m going to be releasing…
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/17448270] I came across this beautiful animation this morning by Aaron Wendel, and was struck by its stunning narrative in such confounding simplicity. If you have a spare couple of minutes, I can’t recommend enough watching this short.
My boy and I like to pick out movies from the library to watch (they’re free and we get ’em for two weeks!) and this week’s picks included Contact, starring Jodie Foster, from 1997. What an incredible film. I picked it up because I remembered liking it, but I’d forgotten just how great it really…