Making Comics

Episode 277: A Story's Gravity

This week, we talk about what pauses mean in the audio landscape (4:00), Kickstarter prep and doing the video work (23:20), assembling a mini-comic (28:30), and working hard to complete a page goal (31:40) before we talk about carefully calibrating the sex in a story (41:00) and the gravity - or lack of - in a story (50:30).

Episode 276: One-Shot Stories (with Katelyn Windels)

This week, we welcome Katelyn Windels (Devil in the Herd, Veefriends) to the podcast and talk about hitting your weekly page goals (4:30), getting the feedback you didn't know you needed (13:30), brainstorming a new story in an existing comics world (20:00), one-shot stories in the current landscape (30:00), and the origin point of a story (42:30).

Episode 275: The extra parts of a page

This week, we discuss coordinating production work for a Kickstarter (4:50), having fun with the "extra" parts of a page (19:00), reaching the point of a story where you're too close to everything (27:30), fine-tuning the color flats for your comic (33:40), daily writing warm-ups (41:15), and a potential purchase (45:00).

Episode 274: Evaluating your Pages

This week, we talk about evaluating your pages through the process (4:00), fighting through a unique problem on a cover treatment (13:00), knocking out a commission (26:05), writing a bit in multiple stories (28:50), and creating a new villain (46:15).

Episode 273: Listener Feedback

This week, we talk about taking time for story ideas and warm-up writing (4:00), finding a reason to draw every day (19:30), improving your speed drawing pages (24:45), firming up a revised scene that changes action after it in a story (31:00), and getting convention-ready (37:00) before this week's main topic: listener feedback on drawing, characters, and much more (43:00)!