Comics Are Great! 38 – Ideas are Crap
November 26, 2011 by Jerzy Drozd
Filed under CAG Podcast, News, Podcasts
This week we address the time-honored topic of ideas and how a storyteller turns them into something useful. If ideas are a dime a dozen, then how do you know a good one from a bad one? If execution is everything, how do you execute? We’re joined by Norwegian cartoonist Kim Holm and local artist Jono Balliett, who share some insights on how they’ve combined non-trivial time restraints and a spirit of play to take crummy ideas and turn them into gold.
We’re joined once again by Eli Neiburger of the Ann Arbor District Library, who shares some closing thoughts and great book recommendations!
Links mentioned in this episode (thanks to Eric Klooster for collecting them!):
- Kim Holm’s free digital illustration textures library
- Diary of a Space Monkey
- Lean Into Art – a learning network
- Jerzy’s Front re-imaginings
- Make the Comics Drink & Draw – First session begins December 8!
- Husky House Restaurant
- Jackson Pollock
- The Picture of Everything
- Dating in the Dark
- We Live in Public
- Gamification
- Kim Holm’s Free Art Friday
- WTF Podcast
- Pixar films
- H.P. Lovecraft
- Moleskine Sketchbook Pocket
- All babies look like Winston Churchill
- Dark Mischief: a Spooky Anthology
- JLA/Avengers: Collector’s Edition
This week’s book recommendations:
- Achewood Volume 2: Worst Song, Played On Ugliest Guitar
- Stop Forgetting to Remember: The Autobiography of Walter Kurtz
- Mid-Life
- Cat and Girl
Here’s the video from this episode’s live stream (audio player at the bottom of this post):
Tune in next Wednesday live at 12:30 pm Eastern Time on Comicsaregreat.tv!
Audio hosting provided by Ka-Blam Digital Printing. This episode was recorded live at the Ann Arbor District Library.
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I usually really enjoy this show but not this one I couldn’t listen to it all the way through. Your first guest talked more about (not his words but how he came off) how he hates America and our culture than about the art. I still listen to your show but this one just put me off.
I think Kim can be an acquired taste for some, since it’s hard to tell sometimes when he’s serious and when he’s just ribbing someone. I’m never 100% sure myself, but he did have some nice things to say about America back in an earlier ep of CAG. I’m glad that it wasn’t enough to put you off the show altogether, though! Thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts.