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Know How: How to Get the Best from Your Artist

01/11/2018 3:00 pm by Beat Staff

Know How: How to Get the Best from Your Artist

By David Seidman Writers and artists are born enemies. “That stupid artist didn’t draw what I wrote!” echoes down the halls of comics history. But it doesn’t have to be that way. To write comics, you need to know how to work with artists just as much as you need to know plotting, characterization, and […]

Filed Under: Art, Comics, News, Writing Tagged With: Buzz Dixon, david seidman, Jill Thompson, joe staton, Kelly Sue DeConnick, know how, Kurt Busiek, Lea Hernandez, mariah mccourt, mike baron, mike carlin, net gertler, patrick block, Scott Shaw, shea fontana, Steven Grant, wendy pini

SDCC ’17: Mark Evanier and Others Discuss What Makes for Good Cover Art

07/25/2017 11:00 am by Nicholas Eskey

SDCC ’17: Mark Evanier and Others Discuss What Makes for Good Cover Art

The phrase goes, “Don’t judge a book by its cover.” I don’t know anyone who follows it. For that reason, an eye-catching cover is necessary to catch the eyes of potential buyers. At this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, Mark Evanier (Jack Kirby historian and a comic legend in his own right) collected five comic book […]

Filed Under: News, Process, SDCC '17, Top News Tagged With: Art, Arthur Adams, artist, artists, comic-con, Comics, cover, design, erica henderson, joe staton, Joyce Chin, mark evanier, Mike Grell, Process, San Diego, SDCC, sdcc '17, SDCC'17, Variant

31 Days of Winter Festivals: A Christmas Carol adapted by Joe Staton

12/19/2013 9:00 am by Heidi MacDonald

31 Days of Winter Festivals: A Christmas Carol adapted by Joe Staton

Joe Staton is one of those reliable cartoonists who draws everything exactly as it should be with intelligence, grace and greta storytelling. He drew A Christmas Carol for for the late 80s early 90s the Berkeley/First Comics version of Classic Comics. It’s just about perfect. It’s also long out of print but you can still […]

Filed Under: Top News Tagged With: 31 days of winter festivals, joe staton, Top News

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