It happens. It’s not a great feeling. And you’ll struggle and go through several cycles of “I can’t do this” “Why can’t I do this” “I’m crap at this” You may even find something else to do that – be
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One Pager Strontium Dog
I used to love doing single page stories. Could spend a few hours and do a complete goofball story. I slightly regret the language in this on the other hand it’s so barmy it doesn’t feel like I’m making fun
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Pitches
I’ve pitched many things to 2000AD and had zero success with any of them. On the other hand, often when an artist ditches, the series has come to me. Whereupon I (unintentionally) kill it. RIP Samizdat Squad.
Writing comics week 1: class notes
So here we go again. Had the first of the six week creating comics class at the Irish writers centre in Dublin. I enjoyed it, hopefully others did too. Week 1 was about creating stories. Specifically Future Shocks. 2000ad’s short
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Yes.
It’s probably by who you’re thinking. But it’ll be five months of war… You’ll get the inside dope, I’m sure. Including how do I get those tanks so dead-on accurate, and “is war really hell?” (As long as you keep
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Teaching Comics
Tomorrow I start teaching my six week course on creating comics (in Dublin). It’s all built around creating future shocks, but filled, I hope, with interesting/useful observations (and really it’s about any sort of short story writing). Each class is
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Directing Attention
So, here’s something I’ve literally just finished – it should be spoiler free, you’ll see it in 2000AD eventually. Page 1, panel 1 (I’ll paraphrase the script here) Opening page. Establishing shot of the exterior of a large refinery (smoking
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Yoyo!
Page 1! This strip has only appeared in the irish language, despite the fact it was written in English and stuffed to the gills with puns. In about a year I think I get the rights back and I can
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Research
More tanks. Books like this are probably better for writers than artists though. I have a couple of big difficulties with drawing tanks (beyond all the normal difficulties of actually drawing). They are: How big are people in relation to
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Drawing board updates
Ah, my dudes, been so busy – three different projects have accidentally collided – it’s a pain when two do, I actually have four but managed to push one back a week or so. All TV storyboarding today (it’s a
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