For the first time, the American Library Association’s annual conference will include an Artist’s Alley for comics creators. And if you can get yourself to New Orleans, and find someplace to stay, the actual table space is free, last I heard, anyway ETA: yours in exchange for a piece of original art, which will be [...]
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With exquisite timing, crud struck me down on the Friday of the Stumptown Comics Fest. However, I did manage to drag my carcass to the convention center for Sunday’s panel on worldbuilding. The fact that it’s taken me this long to post my notes is an indication of the baseline level of CrazyBusy that has [...]
Mr. Spiegelman’s title: “What the @!#* happened to comics?” He used to do a talk called COMICS 101, because it was so ridiculous to think of people taking a class in comics. Now of course there are a bunch of places where you can get a whole degree. I’d heard Art Spiegelman speak once before, [...]
From the mailbag: I’m just wondering how would one send a graphic novel script on its own without illustrations to a publisher, or can you even do so? The short answer is the ever-popular “It depends.” Slave Labor won’t consider a script without art — or art without a script, for that matter. Dark Horse will, [...]
Shelftalkers, in case you do not know this term of art, are those little pieces of paper you see attached to shelves in bookstores and some libraries, with brief descriptions/blurbs of featured titles. Here’s a (totally self-serving) example: My idea is based on a technique that may or may not be unique to the excellent [...]
So I am currently revising the script for Bad Houses, my forthcoming graphic novel for DC Vertigo that will (yay!) have art by the amazing Carla Speed McNeil. Ways in which it is like revising a prose novel: – I spend a lot of time staring into the middle distance, trying to figure out if [...]
So I moderated a panel yesterday about Comics for Young Readers at Stumptown 2010. (I didn’t take any pictures, but pictures were definitely taken — if I can turn some up I will add them. ETA: here is a photo!) EATA (edited again to add): Alexis Fajardo recorded the panel in its entirety! It’s part [...]
Things are happening. You may have noticed, it is almost time for the Stumptown Comics Fest? In mere hours, I’ll be headed over to Things From Another World for the party in celebration of Steve Lieber & Jeff Parker’s graphic novel UNDERGROUND, a crackerjack entrant in the crowded category of spelunking thrillers. On Friday, I’m [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
