Art & Story 143 – The Big Potpourri IX

It’s another multi-topic episode this week as we answer some questions from you, the Storriors!

We start with some talk on continuity in comics storytelling as we respond to a voicemail from Gerimi Burleigh, who was himself responding to something Kim Holm said in a recent episode of Art & Story Extreme!!. Does continuity automatically take the fun out of a story? Does it always make things more serious?

We then respond to a wondering pitched at us by Jonathan Rector: What strategies are available to pare down a story in order to fit a certain page size? How do we tame the flood of creativity that comes with making art on a regular basis?

After that we take on some questions emailed to us by Robert May:

With regards to conventions I was wondering how you guys come up with prints and other merch that aren’t comic books or mini-comics. By that I mean how do you come up with subject matter for prints or shirts or buttons? Is it all related to your personal creations or do you have a few references to more “mainstream” things like GI Joe, Batman, Transformers, etc. at your tables? And as a sub-question to that, does your process for prints follow the same process as your comic pages or do you spend a lot more time in inking and clean-up to create the highest quality for sale?

And

I currently work as a freelance graphic designer, and it makes me enough to pay the bills, but not a whole lot more than that. I want to expand to more potential clients and shift my focus more on to illustration and less on design. Could you share some tips on getting more gigs that have worked for you?

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