First, a disclaimer: This is going to be a rambling post with no real “thesis” or conclusion–just some random semi-related thoughts. That said, read on at your own risk… Not too long ago, floating all about the internets were a lot of links to cartoonist John Martz’s fantastic pixel art of Star Trek characters. What’s …
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Jan 21 2010
Amelia Book Launch at The Center for Cartoon Studies 2/19
I’ve added one further event to my already busy Amelia weekend extravaganza. Before hitting Chapel Hill Books for a signing there on Sunday the 21st of February, I’ll be appearing in White River Junction, Vermont at the Center for Cartoon Studies, along with Amelia Earhart – This Broad Ocean‘s writer, Sarah Stewart Taylor, for a …
Nov 18 2009
Count of Monte Cristo – Lettered Thumbs
My next step, once I’ve got reasonably solid thumbnails (as seen last post) is to scan those thumbnails and pull out all the colored planning drawing, leaving just the final pencil lines. This can be done easily in Photoshop by going into image –> adjustments –> hue/saturation and then, in turn, selecting “reds,” “cyans” and …
Nov 17 2009
Count of Monte Cristo – Thumbnails
Just for fun, I thought I’d drum up maybe five pages or so of my imagined graphic novel adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo. This obviously isn’t a “front burner” project for me at the moment, but I’ll post progress on these pages as I work on them with an eye toward discussing process. …
Nov 03 2009
Craft: ‘Notecard’ Story Structure Plotting
None of this is original to me–you can find instructions on how to do basic three act story structuring with note-cards in any number of writing and screenwriting books, or on writer Alexandra Sokoloff’s extremely helpful website–but I thought it might be useful to post a picture of the thing in operation, since that’s something …





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