writing

We have our artist and they’ve provided our character designs. Now it’s time to get into the meat of the project – making comic pages. But how do you communicate the story you [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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My Site VOTE! So it looks like Kidjo was delayed on his way to take out Portis, which is why Sophia and Selphi got there first (see Hikari). And since Marielle and Kidjo have met in person, this [...]

My Site VOTE! See, he’s not such a bad guy. He adopted her kids! Of course, he didn’t know that at the time or that he was even serving their mother until a few pages ago, but perhaps [...]