High Adventure Daily 06 – Primitive!

In this episode, I ‘m putting out a request to see if anyone would like to have a critique section added to the forum. Then under the influence of animation, I talk about the notion that we should not only study our influences, but also study the art from ancient and primitive cultures to aid [...]

Art & Story 100 – The Big ‘Un

[private]We’re joined by our biggest roundtable yet to help celebrate reaching our 100th episode! No special topic this time–more of a general discussion about why we love the comics medium so much, from our various points of view. Here’s our lineup of special guests: Shawn Robare is the man behind Branded in the 80s, a [...]

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Art & Story 99 – The Big Wood

[private]This week we spotlight Wally Wood’s famous “22 Panels That Always Work” We discuss several of the panels in this image and discuss how they have affected our storytelling, why and how we think they work, and how we’ve used them in our own comics. Some of the panels highlighted: Big Head Extreme Closeup Back [...]

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Art & Story 89 – The Big Visual Narrative II

[private]We return to a topic first broached back in episode 85, where we explored some of the various advanced storytelling techniques available to us cartoonists in creating our narratives through visuals. Once again we broke the discussion into the following topics, with examples of our own work to show that we practice what we preach: [...]

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Art & Story Alive! Episode 63

[private]We take on a single topic provided by Ryan Dow this week: How about how to decide whether a critique of your art or piece of advice is legitimate or not. Especially if it’s a critique from someone more experienced or advice that would force you to completely redesign your site/book. Krishna, Mark and I [...]

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Art & Story Alive! Episode 62

[private]This week we start out with a brief tributary on defining the difference between ranting and whining in our blogs, podcasts, or tweets. When do we cross the line between sharing our difficulties and when are we outright complaining? We move on from that to talk about some interesting prose collections containing comics as well. [...]

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Art & Story Alive! Episode 61

[private]This week we’re utterly Mark-less, but we still have a great roundtable of cartoonists to take on two topics propsed by listeners! From Dungeon Warden: I’m also interested in Kid vs Adult webcomics.  Is it a good idea to push the limits of good taste or should comics be for everyone? I fear my comic [...]

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Art & Story 85 – The Big Visual Narrative

[private]It’s all about narrative through visuals this week, as Mark and I highlight some techniques we enjoy using to create immersive comics storytelling. We broke the discussion into the following topics, with examples of our own work to show that we practice what we preach: Bleed behind panels • Moment hold • Serves similar purpose [...]

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Art & Story Alive! Episode 57

[private]We’re down one man this week (Mark had business in Detroit), but Krishna and I do our best to keep the ball rolling with another installment of the live show. This week we talk about strategies to avoid “hitting the wall” creatively, a topic suggested by Kim Holm. We discuss the virtues of reading a [...]

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Art & Story 80 – The Big Beginner

[private]This week we abandon all of our previous advice in an effort to address an email sent to us by Cameron Callahan: What would we say to someone who is just starting out with this comics creating jazz? For all of our talk about specific tools, techniques, business strategies, there is one piece of advice [...]

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