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. And I’ve realized what has helped me the most as a comics writer: hanging out with cartoonists, listening to them complain about scripts. So I thought I’d [...]

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 [...]