Sara Ryan

For those who attended and everyone else who’s interested, here follows a summary of the Librarians Get Graphic preconference at the 2010 Public Library Association conference, with more links than I believe I have ever included in a post before! (In fact, there are a few that are included more than once because they were [...]

(Not a post about werewolves.) In the U.S., we’re fond of defining people by their occupations. It’s a sort of shorthand; a job title comes with a set of expectations (and stereotypes) that (we like to think) provide some guidance for how we should interact with this person we’ve just met. In the publishing world, [...]

Hey it’s time for another post of things comics writers do in their scripts that annoy artists! I’m slightly cheating this time by including a couple of writers, but they’ve both also been artists, so it’s okay. And in case you missed them, here are the other recent comics-writing-related posts: Getting a robot to make [...]

Here’s the second installment of tips for novice comics writers, from Dylan Meconis, artist of Family Man and my once and future collaborator. (On Click, and also on a story for an Anthology To Be Named Later that I am quite excited about.) 1) Don’t say “Have fun with this!” Unless the writer actually knows [...]

Writing comics has stayed on my mind since I wrote my last post, in part because I’m closing in on finishing the script for my upcoming graphic novel for DC Vertigo, Bad Houses. And I’ve realized what has helped me the most as a comics writer: hanging out with cartoonists, listening to them complain about [...]

It was probably in Cricket. Or maybe I saw it on 3-2-1-Contact! Or, heck, maybe it was a plain old school assignment. Anyway, sometime far Back in that very long conceptual Day, I encountered a Thing that involved telling a robot how to make you a sandwich. You’d write down the steps, and then the [...]

Saw this passage as I was deleting a screenful of spam comments. Seems like it’s been Babelfished a few times? Now I think if he’s curious, he’ll establish eye touch. If he smiles that’s a green fine for you say hi. If he knows you he titillates you a lot, he clashes his hand against [...]