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Great catalogue of Amanda Conner’s facial expressions in POWER GIRL. (More at the link)
One of the most common questions I get is “Hey Jeph! I want to start a webcomic of my own, BUT I DON’T KNOW HOW!!! WHAT DO I DO?!?!?!”
WELL HERE’S HOW.
Geoffrey D Wessel has written a story for a to-be-announced Image anthology. A comic called There Is A Light with John Keogh. Together they also had a page in Phonogram Vs The Fans. He has mini-comics. And he’s working on a Zuda submission.
And he’s at C2E2 seeing if he can drum up a little interest as a comic book writer. It’s a hell of a task, but he’s keeping a diary for Bleeding Cool.
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
— Geoffrey D Wessel – Life’s A Pitch: Geoffrey D Wessel’s Diary of Pitching at C2E2 2010
When I did Stumptown the weekend before last, I was on a panel called “Self-Publishing Like a Rockstar” with Lucy Knisley, Meredith Gran, and moderator Erika Moen. You can hear the audio of it here: http://erikamoen.livejournal.com/379564.html. I’m not sure that I self-publish like a rockstar, but I made a book once, so I was able to say “ISBN” and sound like I knew what I was talking about. The other panelists were indeed rockstars, and I learned useful things from them, like which print-on-demand services won’t scam you and how to get a guy to sell your stuff to stores.
The panel covered a lot of good nuts-and-bolts information, but afterwards I thought of some other things I could’ve said. So.
Five Things To Know Before You Publish Your First Comic
— All the Comics in the World: Publishing Your First Comic - comiXology
How I write. In case anyone gives a shit. – I build an outline for each arc with major story beats, some specific scene notes, maybe some important dialogue. For an issue, I start by just numbering 1 through 22 and writing a brief description of each page. Sometimes after that I’ll go through and breakdown each page into very brief panel descriptions and build from there. Other times I’ll just start at the beginning and build the whole thing as I go. It usually just depends on how long I’ve had the story in my head and how nailed down I’ve already got it. My best days of writing, when I can churn out 12 or more pages, are always preceded by several days of no writing at all, but instead just a lot of thinking, so by the time I’m actually sitting down to write, the story is already nailed down and all I have to do is get it on paper.
— Notes on Craft by Jason Aaron
I’ve worked at Nickelodeon Magazine for the past nine years. During that time, I’ve done several alumni panels and given talks to classes at the School of Visual Arts and done lots of portfolio reviews. The following is a compilation of things I usually end up talking about in regards to finding work in the comics and illustration fields. Hopefully some of it will come across as helpful! Most of it relates to my specific perspective as an editor who works with and hires other artists mixed with anecdotal evidence from co-workers and friends in the industry
— Advice for building a career as a freelance artist and/or paid cartoonist by Dave Roman
