I’ve been in a couple of different shows where I’ve tried a British accent of one kind or another, but because I’m me, I always find myself neck deep in accent research. Most of the time, it’s not really essential to what I’m doing (I have something workable already), but any excuse to try to …
This one is probably less comics-related than a lot of other bits, but it continues to speak to the many influences Power Pack had on impressionable, younger me. 1 I mentioned previously that Julie Power was one of the characters I related to almost instantly, largely due to her thorough love of fantasy and science …
Another post I missed the first time around, but which I found while I was being absorbed into Tumblr (this time Gail Simone’s). She starts talking about her number one suggestion for writers: I believe that a shelf full of history books is the greatest possible idea machine someone can have. The internet is not …
Amy Reeder’s posted a great look at her personal coloring process: I’m not an uber-experienced colorist and I have no idea what the standard technique for coloring is—so maybe this is common knowledge—but there’s something new I’ve been trying occasionally when I really want to play with opposing hues as light sources. And I thought …
I just finished listening to Kieron Gillen’s recording of the “Comics Are for Everyone” Panel from the Dublin International Comics Expo. As Gillen points out in his intro, it’s a panel on diversity. Appropriately enough, the discussion ranges in a lot of different directions, all of which are worth hearing. Go. Listen. Me, I’m going …
I’m having the hardest time even picking what to quote from Mark Waid’s An Open Letter To Young Freelancers over on Thrillbent, and I could probably spend days trying to pick the best one, so we’ll just throw a pin at the board and start here: Know that, five years from now, as fans or …
I’ve been wanting to watch this TED talk since I saw the link on Upworthy, but only recently had the time to spare. I’ve been fascinated by hearing voices and schizophrenia for a while (part of the metaphor of Crowd over in Spotlight is a more literal conglomeration of voices, to use the most recent …
