The Classic Artist Test
One way to test an incoming new artist’s storytelling skills is to offer a test plot or script — a few pages that a top professional artist has already done, so there’s a baseline of storytelling standards with which to compare results. This is not about style but, rather, storytelling strength — clarity, powerful action […]
A Package of Deception
True story: In my early years writing comics scripts, I realized that I could sell more work to smaller companies if I put together the “package” of the script + artist + letterer + colorist. I started getting really good at discovering quality artists trying to break in whom I could coach and nudge to […]
Dustin Irvin: Credits
Seance Room Issue 3, Rules Are Meant to Be Seance Room Issue 4, Ice Princess Seance Room Novel Coming Soon – Winchester House Issues 1-3
Renato Dalmaso: Credits
2019 – Elísio, A Jorney To Hell2020 – Among The Great Ones You Are The First
Banzai Girls returns for “Fifty-One Shades of Prey”
Writer/Artist/Jinky Coronado is back and she’s powering through this perilous pandemic to bring you a double-dose of BANZAI GIRL printed full-color comic books — her babelicious BANZAI GIRLS SPECTACULAR #1 and a super-sexy BANZAI GIRL FABULOUS FOTO BOOK! “Fifty-One Shades of Prey” is a startling story featuring Banzai Girl’s family taking place seven years after […]
Panel Problems
At left: A CONAN page by John Buscema and Bob McLeod with a poor storytelling choice. If an arrow has to be used to direct the reader, the layout artist has failed. Honestly, though, in lieu of an arrow, a writer can cheat the storytelling by instructing placement by having a word balloon from panel […]
Neal Adams
It’s amazing and wonderful that, at 80 years old, Neal Adams is still producing powerful artwork that keeps us talking. Yet there’s something else we need to take into account — something that I’ve seen in my own parents and aunts and uncles and cousins as they’ve grown older. We all eventually become exaggerations of […]
Foreshortening for Kicks
One of the things I rail against with current artists is their use of poor foreshortening. Before the Image Comics styles came into prominence, when an artist drew a character (Superman, for example), flying right out at the reader, we still saw that character’s legs and feet — a complete figure, but with exaggerated foreshortening […]
Fear & Lack of Vision
Fear and lack of vision has seriously damaged our beloved comicbook industry. Decades ago, the newsstand distribution system was crumbling under the weight of fraud and vanishing mom-and-pop drugstores. Some very smart and clever folks created and built the direct sales market, which flourished in the ’90s with over 8,000 comics shops and a dozen […]
Individual Growth & Long-Ago Comments
Do you believe a person can learn and grow as an individual? Experience has shown me that we can’t change somebody else (in personal or business relationships), but that person can change as time goes on — whether for better or worse depends upon all the experiences that person has gone through. I look back […]
