Nov 03 2009
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 …
Mar 01 2009
A while back I resolved to do no more link blogging, thinking that–even if it meant only one “real” post a week–it’d be better to not pepper my blog with commentary on random things on the ‘net that likely many, many other folks have noted long before I. However, in this case, I’ll break that …
Apr 22 2008
If you’re signed up for the Publishers Weekly Comics Week email newsletter (and you know you should be!) you’ve probably had this appear in your inbox already, but I’ve written a review of Jessica Abel and Matt Madden’s new comics teaching book Drawing Words and Writing Pictures in the current newsletter. As you can probably …
Apr 05 2008
So, I found that I did in fact have this mini, referenced in my previous post, saved somewhere. It occurred to me that even if I hadn’t scanned the pages when I originally put the mini together, that I’d probably posted it to my website at some point. Thanks to archive.org I was able to …
Mar 30 2008
Like it says up top, this is a short and easy tutorial about how to divide a row (or “tier” as it’s sometimes called) on a comics page into three equally-sized panels. Why am I writing about this? Because I was really surprised by the fact that a Google search for how to do this …
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