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Now that we’ve selected an artist (in this case, Jeong Mo Yang), we start the collaborative process. The first step Jeong and I took were in character designs. I had my list of characters [...]

So you’re a writer with little to no art skills, or you just want to use someone else’s artwork for your comic (like me). This means you need to find, recruit, and work with an [...]

Previously we talked about the building blocks of our story: 1) Generating the idea 2) The elements of plot 3) Developing the characters 4) Writing the beat sheet All of these helps us to create [...]

In the previous entry we established our environment (the junkyard), and figured out who our main characters would be (a robot and a dog), and what their motivations were. Since we had all of [...]

So we have some ideas about characters and location, but no real specifics. I like to start to get the idea of the characters in my head at this stage, so I can further develop their motivations [...]

In our previous entry in the Making of Junkyard Chase series, we talked about inspiration. I got my inspiration for this particular story from classic cartoons. From this inspiration, and knowing [...]

Many people approach me at conventions who want to write (or are writing) and they ask about the writing process. It’s difficult to get into the nitty gritty details during a panel at a [...]

The convention season is upon us, and there was no better way to start it off in 2011 than with a show like Anime Milwaukee. Last year I attended this show for the first time, which was located [...]

Finally, the time is upon us for the illustrated world to meet the photo world. Or more appropriately, the opposite. This is the start of something I’ve wanted to do ever since I started [...]

Last year, we were all witness to what may be the largest geological and ecological catastrophe of our lifetime to date. BP, in an effort to get to richer and richer veins of non-replenishable [...]