Pitching and Editing Graphic Novels

If you've wondered about the process of pitching a graphic novel and what editors are looking for, the latest episode of +Comics Are Great! is for you. Calista Brill, Senior Editor at First Second Books, provides tons of useful insights on the world of graphic novel publishing. Reshared post from +Comics Are Great! What makes a [...]

Comics Are Great! 75 – Editing Graphic Novels with Calista Brill

Editing, writing, graphic novels, First Second Books, and more! I’m excited to talk with Calista Brill, Senior Editor at First Second Books, about the entire process of developing and publishing a graphic novel. What does a good pitch look like? What qualities are editors looking for in a graphic novel proposal? Once the book is [...]

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Finding your voice, writing for kids, and "Clown Time" in G.I

Joe: the Movie http://stuffsaidshow.com/?p=711 I have had the pleasure of being part of hundreds of hours of comics discussions on podcasts, but being interviewed by +Gregg Schigiel on the Stuff Said show ranks among the very top tier of pleasurable experiences. Together we talk about how one's goals shift and change as we get older, the difficulty in [...]

This hit home for me

Something I've been struggling with a lot over the last couple of years, and helps reinforce some of my own conclusions. Reshared post from +Lean Into Art Before you give up…you may want to try changing it up http://www.astronautacademy.com/comic/page-042-2/ +Dave Roman hits the mark with his latest blog post, providing an alternate point of view to [...]

The Value of Silence

http://www.jmdematteis.com/2013/01/the-value-of-silence.html J.M. DeMatteis blogs about his experience writing Spectacular Spider-Man #200 and a moment where he came face-to-face with the moment where a writer's job is "deciding when to speak and when to shut up.  Deciding whether to go for a barrage of machine-gun dialogue, a series of powerful captions or to surrender to equally-powerful silence. [...]

The benefits of warm up sketches/activities

http://leanintoart.com/blog/2013/1/7/lia-cast-67-limbering-up-for-the-new-year.html Now that we've reflections and plans for 2013, there's nothing for it but to dive in and complete those goals, right? Easy! But time and again we find ourselves falling short of our goals, for a variety of reasons: – We sit down to do the work and don’t know where to begin- We [...]

1.5 weeks left to get a comics workshop for $10

Lots of great workshops led by some crazy talented cartoonists/educators. And yes, you can get one as a gift. #comics   #workshops   Reshared post from +Lean Into Art Season of Creative Challenges ends January 2 http://leanintoart.com/workshops We're soon closing the doors on the Lean Into Art Season of Creative Challenges sale. You have until [...]

Comics Are Great! 68 – Watson and Holmes

Sherlock Holmes, Rick Leonardi, Brandon Perlow, Paul Mendoza, and more! This time we talk with the team behind the new Watson and Holmes comic about iterating on public domain stories, new publishing strategies, and how a cartoonist might think about “acting” through their characters. And we’re joined once again by Sharon Iverson of the Ann [...]

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The Comics Industry has many discrete worlds, so what are you gonna do about it?

The Comics Industry has many discrete worlds, so what are you gonna do about it? http://stuffsaidshow.com/?p=543 A really fun and relaxed discussion with +Dave Roman on the latest episode of the Stuff Said podcast. Tons of great stuff nested in this casual conversation about Dave's career, but one of my big takeaways was something that Dave [...]

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Comics Are Great! 67 – Scary Stories

Writing horror with Jon David Guerra, Paul Storrie, and Dave Carter. It’s a Halloween-themed episode with a talk on what characterizes a scary story, and we’ve got a full roundtable of people well-suited for the job! I’m joined by Jon David Guerra, Paul Storrie, and Dave Carter, who help to draw the line between “disturbing” [...]

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