One of the strengths of the comics medium is that we are much more free to tell our stories and we have the ability to let it grow […]
Once, I’d written a Western story, and one of the panels was just a hand holding a six-shooter, and there was a puff of smoke coming out of […]
The goal of art is to construct your soul. The goal of industry is to have money. It’s different. You are obliged to do what you don’t like […]
So many artists say “Oh, I’m right brain-left brain I don’t want to deal with business!” The sad news is: bullshit, you do have to deal with business! […]
An artist should spend his artistic career expunging from the work everything that he recognizes as a habit. If he finds a neat way of doing something, instead […]
Remember: to tell a story is to lay out one card at a time and not play your full hand until you need to.
They [drugs] work really well with comics though, because it’s a medium that’s basically powered by acts of symbolism, and drugs can often help you grasp the deeper […]
Right now independent comics are surging and I don’t think it’s a fluke. As the big 2 become more and more corporate, ignoring the wants and needs of […]