Podcast
Making Comics
Hosted by Unknown Author · EN
with Salgood Sam @ Syn Studio!
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World Building, to be somewhere or not to be somewhere…
Feb 20, 2023Tap to summarizeIt’s not really a question, even when stories are set nowhere, that’s a place too. Location Location Location. It’s always about that in part, it frames the story. You have a few ways to look at story and a good writer uses more than one. There is character, there is the plot, and then there […]
Transcribe →Zine Folding Schemes!
Feb 20, 2023Tap to summarizeTips on making zines!
Transcribe →Movement & Wordless Conversations in Comics
Feb 20, 2023Tap to summarizeComparing Cages & Journal T3 | A look at two wordless segments depicting movement and music.
Transcribe →Somewhere to start, on ‘Story’
Jul 21, 2021Tap to summarizeOf all the skills it takes to make comics, writing is one of the last I tried to tackle as a student and practitioner myself. Now that I’ve been working on it for about 25 years, trying to teach it is both fascinating and daunting. Quite simply it a HUGE topic to cover and I’m […]
Transcribe →Snakes Ladders & Closure: The Mechanics of Comics Art
Jan 25, 2020Tap to summarizeThis is presentation/set of talks I’d given several times over the years in different forms. As a series of classes, shortened for talks at comics festivals, and this playlist was created for student patrons on Patreon when I still had one active. It’s designed to encapsulate all the fundamentals of the mechanics of comics art. […]
Transcribe →Story Strategy: Adapting from Public Domain.
Jan 25, 2020Tap to summarizethe last few years teaching my making comics class at syn studio I’ve noticed that many students find it difficult to start writing stories. Not everyone has this problem, some students come into the class already with a graphic novel in mind, they want to start working on. But that isn’t really practical because graphic […]
Transcribe →Emanata & !#@?$%!
Mar 1, 2017Tap to summarize“What is “Emanta”? And were you cursing?!” No, those are Grawlixes, and think emoticons. Emanata and Grawlixes are symbolic icons. They are just two names for a few examples, of a wide array of symbolic little cartoon elements and various other parts of comics, described thoroughly in the satirical but also utterly functional Lexicon of Comicana by Mort Walker! […]
Transcribe →The short and silent story
Sep 25, 2015Tap to summarizeA lot of studentscome to mewith a whole epicin mind. Those who want to tell sprawling tales that will end up slip cased novels in the hundred of pages! Understandable. I mean, it’s Comics! Of course there’s a lot of people looking for that. I’m pretty guilty of doing it a few times myself. But it can backfire […]
Transcribe →My Comics Processes!
Sep 25, 2015Tap to summarizeLets start at the beginning! I detailed doing thumbs here, penciling here, layout and flow here. But there are so many ways to make comics, you can make your own process as you go if you like, or customize those of your roll models to suit you. Never feel obligated to do this one particular […]
Transcribe →Character and Design
Sep 25, 2015Tap to summarizeI’ve posted about the writing side of inventing characters, with comics of course the visuals are just as important, and by extension, often the world you set around them. If your comics take place in the now, then you don’t have to think as hard about it, just pick locations around you. Be creative about it, look […]
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