Thunder Punch Daily 133 – How is Transformer Babby Formed?

Inspired by a recent Twitter conversation I had with Kasey Van Hise, today I share a few thoughts about the difference between real world logic, internal story logic, and story idea logic. Focusing too much on the minute details of the logic of details in a story (such as wondering about the necessity of gender [...]

Art & Story 154 – The Big Reboot

[private]It’s about making old things new this week, as we take on a topic supplied by Rene van Belzen: What to do to revive an old property, how to make more current or fitting to your current work. We do our best to give an answer to the question, performing some thought experiments with some [...]

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Comics Fundamentals Pt 2 – World Building

In this second session of my Comics Fundamentals workshop series, I explore some world building techniques, figure drawing strategies, followed by some thoughts on hashing your story out in thumbnail form. The enhanced audio file will display the slides I used during the presentation. Some of the slides link to the sites I mention during [...]

Art & Story – Your Comic From The Ground Up, Pt 2

[private]Our multi-part series of Your Comic From The Ground Up continues this week on Art & Story. This time it’s all about finding the climax and how it reflects the theme of your story, world building, and beginning work on your thumbnails! Like before, we open with some theoretical discussion followed by some practical techniques. [...]

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Art & Story Alive! Episode 84

[private]Breathing new life into old genres and fighting the battle between clarity and tone are on the table for discussion on this week’s Art & Story Alive! First we tackle a topic presented by Storrior BoSteel: The Big Niche Market. What if what you wanna tell IS a super hero story? How do you get [...]

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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 46 – The Big Commentary: Switch Runners

[private]Mark and I indulge ourselves this week with an audio commentary track for our latest collaboration, Switch Runners. We do our best to walk through the process we went through to create the comic from the ground up, and do a bit of a reveal about an experimental technique we used. Here is a link [...]

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Art & Story Alive! Episode 21

[private]This week we talk a bit about themes and world building in our comics, highlighting some of the differences that we find in respect to working on a strip and working on a long-form comic. Mark is away on Requiem business this week, but I’m thankful that I’m joined in the audio by Audra of [...]

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Art & Story 027 – The Big Potpourri Part 2

[private]This week Jerzy and I talk about me showin’ up on the TV (I was involved with a documentary that uses my artwork) but we do talk about comics this episode– specifically, we touch upon world building and still manage to go down a couple tributaries. Also discussed was The Writing Cast. Subscribe through iTunes [...]

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Art & Story 024 – The Big Previsualization

[private]This week Jerzy and Mark planned on discussing how we do pre-planning and how we visualize our work before pencil touches paper, but we end up trailing a bit off topic… but in a good way. Also, if anyone has any other thoughts on our live show drop us a line.[/private]

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