A writer’s analys of season 8 episode 5 of Game of Thrones
GAME OF THRONES SPOILERS! Don’t read this if you haven’t seen the latest episode!! If you weren’t paying close enough attention, you perhaps didn’t recognize that Varys had been trying to poison Daenerys via the little girl who reported that Daenerys wasn’t eating. When we next see the Mother of Dragons, looking exhausted and physically […]
Staples: That’s Not Easy
More and more I find myself giving up on online stores I try to order from. I go to to their website only to find they demand all my contact info – name, address, email, phone number, etc. – before they even give access to the site! A moment ago I saw an item I […]
Expressive Hands!
EXPRESSIVE HANDS is one of the storytelling elements I teach in my Seminars. Here’s an explanation of it, using examples from master newspaper strip artist Leonard Starr’s work – https://illustrationart.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-lost-vocabulary-of-visual.html?fbclid=IwAR3n_SXpdUAFZi-tXFRFmwJ40IsrV6p4S9Yrel9VGxnuwzQsL1IWIv811Qc
How NOT to be an Editor!
How NOT to be an Editor: True story! An editor/publisher at a major independent was publishing an anthology, for which I pitched a 10-page ‘30s-era airplane stuntman story called Daring Adventures. The editor gave it a thumbs-up, saying, “Rewrite this into two six-page chapters and I’ll publish it in two consecutive issues.” So I did. […]
Howdy, Partner!
Folks pretty much every week reach out to me asking if they can “collaborate” with one of my 160-or-so artists from www.glasshousegraphics.com. The real answer is, of course, YES – they can hire whichever artists fit their schedule and budget, and those artists will work carefully directly with them and do a marvelous job. They can also […]
Take a Chance on me?
Just as agents understand the good, the bad, and the ugly about every artist they represent and prefer to offer the best talents for each assignment, editors prefer to go back to the well to hire talents who are proven commodities – easy to work with, communicate well, respect deadlines. If you did a great […]
Jinky Coronado returns for “Banzai Girl Volume 2” on Kickstarter
When Filipina schoolgirl Jinky Coronado attended the first Creating Comics Seminar of her young life, she never dreamed that it would lead to an actual career drawing and writing comic books. But that Glass House Graphics seminar, held in early 2000 in Manila, Philippines, became a major changing point in her life. That life had […]
Lost in the Links
I posted online about a client with low-budget graphic novel project seeking an artist who can do good sequential storytelling, sexy girls, and real-looking settings. I was surprised at how many artists submitted for it. Unfortunately, it showed me how many artists don’t follow my advice about portfolios no matter how much I post about […]
