STATUS

Status is tricky.

STATUS, technically, is one’s position or rank in society. However, for a writer, [click to continue...]

Let’s continue breaking down the elements of character.

EMOTION 
There are two ways emotion affects character. First, on a fundamental level. I believe most people have a basic emotional“home base”. By that I mean that we all know people who live [click to continue...]

All right! Let’s get back to the writing workshops.

Now that we are all speaking the same language when it comes to story structure, let’s talk a little about another huge part of the writing process: [click to continue...]

Here are the final, lettered pages of the Scragg story. When creating this story, I sort of aimed for the mythical idea that this was an early Mad Magazine parody by Harvey Kurtzmanand Wally Wood, of a Conan story drawn by Frank Frazetta, as interpreted by me. [click to continue...]

Next I began to rough out the final pages at full size. Some people rough on the final art pages, in light graphite, then add the detail. Others rough out in non-photo blue and tighten up in graphite. As for me, I personally get the best results by roughing out [click to continue...]

Okay, after figuring out the basic beats of my story, I made some loose roughs in my sketchbook. Here they are:

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Next, I’d like to take you through the entire creation of a short comics story, from the writing, to the penciling, and finally to the inking and lettering.

I am part of a small, but plucky, local group of [click to continue...]

Let’s continue breaking down our little Daffy story according to my storytelling guidelines.

CONFLICT:Two types of conflict in this narrative)

(1)MAN vs. MAN (or MAN vs. DUCK in this case) [click to continue...]

Here’s a breakdown of how my storytelling guidelines apply to a Daffy Duck story I wrote for the Looney Tunes comic.

After I send in the premise lines, [click to continue...]