I almost always have work, I get to travel, and I can provide for the people around me. But it never gets easier. That’s the only lesson I […]
Around ’88, someone told me the Stan Lee rule – 28(ish) words per panel. An average panel on an average page can’t usefully hold more than 28 words […]
Scriptwriters are, in many ways, writing a love letter intended to woo the artist into giving their best possible work to the job. A bored or unengaged artist […]
When done right, comics are a cognitive whetstone, providing two or three or more different but entangled streams of information in a single panel. Processing what you’re being […]
I’ve worked in television, and there are a hundred people between you and the audience. I’ve worked in film, and there are a thousand people between you and […]
What are Webcomics? Nobody knows. In the same way that “comics” is just such an utterly wrong label for what the comic is, “Webcomics” doesn’t get close to […]
Not many comics reflect the fact that I live in a multicultural society fitted with a global communications net, nor do they reflect the fact that I don’t […]
American comics creators got into comics to do the same comics they grew up with. British comics creators got into comics to do new comics.