Pope searches for literary quality in comics
Paul Pope blogs at the First Second website:
Each facet of the comics medium is important and deserves its own special consideration, but it's the writing in comics I'm thinking about right now. I often...
Jeff Parker on how to write for artists
Paging every screenwriter who is eyeing the comics medium: PLEASE READ THIS:
Do you really have to pick shots? Think hard on this one. Do you really have a good sense of what will make...
Jill Thompson Blogs
Jill Thompson has a blog, and it's just as chatty, smart and quirky as the lady herself.
I think the one bit of advice I gave out more than anything else during the 4+ hours...
Dave Roman explains your career
Is there anyone out there who doesn't like Dave Roman, because if there is, we'll knock your lamps out. The Nickelodeon magazine editor and cartoonist is back with a guide to being a freelancer...
Get the lead out
For all the writer/artist types out there, this might be a cool diversion.
A website devoted to pencils of all shapes, sizes and colors.
If you're a striking writer, stock up on writing utensils while you...
The wit and wisdom of Steven Grant, part XLVII
From this week's Permanent Damage:
Ultimately there's no publisher in America today predicated on the idea of letting talented creators go their own way, because no publisher has a coherent plan for capitalizing on that,...
More on storytelling
The Post That Wouldn't Die continues to captivate the blogosphere, and many of my private conversations. My mom called to say she enjoyed it, which was nice. Eddie Campbell, ties it in with a...
No learning, no hugging
It seems that the US version of the cult British sitcom THE IT CROWD has been canned. Perhaps all for the best. This gives IT CROWD (and FATHER TED) creator Graham Linehan the chance...
24 Hour Comic Day wrap-up
Net Gertler reports:
It will be a while before we have the most complete figures on attendance at the event sites, but all told 24 Hour Comics Day 2007 was about as large as the...
24 Hour Comics Day rages unchecked
<a href="http://24hourcomics.com/">THE IDEA:</a>On October 20th, 2007, cartoonists around the world will face the 24 hour comics challenge. To help these cartoonists, some comic book stores, educational institutions, libraries, businesses, and comics clubs will host...
As we gather around the glowing embers…
I'm as sick of you-know-what as you are, but thoughtful responses keep rolling in that deserve some link love:
Dick Hyacinth sums up the controversy and its aftermath.
I think the reason the "debate" proved so...
"Their brains were on fire."
Whoa! What the heck! Based on the level of opprobrium aimed at me in the last few days, you'd think I'd come up with a plan for health care or something. Instead, I just...
