To Make Comics You Don’t Have To Grab The Bull By The Horns

Many times when we make comics, we are scared too. We have really big hopes of doing great things and then some big bully will come along and drive us off. Tell us we are no good. Tell us that we should do something else, or that we’ll never amount to anything. We can’t let […]

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What Are Your Comic Book Burdens?

You may find that you face your own hinderances making comics. I’d like to know what specific burdens you are facing. Maybe this story will give you the perserverance to get over the burdens that weigh you down. I’ll give you warning now, this will not be a sleek, perfectly run adventure. It is a […]

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Investing In Your Comic Book Future

Are you investing in who you want to be? When we invest in the thing that we want to become, it makes us want to become that person even more. Running just about everyday, I’ve started to see some of the same people out running, These people I pass by I thought was a one […]

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How To Make Your Work in Comics More Productive

Going Down Hill With The Wind At Your Back. MOMENTUM Time for an easier ride today. Sometimes running uphill in the heat of the day can be exhausting and we hate those times of production with the deadline facing us and we can’t get our brains to tell our hands what we want them to […]

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Going UpHill On Your Comic Adventure

Ever had the time when it took every ounce of your being to get you up out of bed, sit at the drawing table or writing board, you plug away all day, and can’t seem to get anything to come out right? The ideas aren’t flowing, the artwork isn’t coming together, the language isn’t working, […]

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If You Want to Succeed Making Comics, Give Yourself the Bird.

You are pretty much aware by now — surely– that there’s these different kinds of camera angles with a comic book layout. These camera angles art the close-up, the upshot, the down shot, the 3/4 shot, establishing shot, extreme close up, etc. etc. The two I want to focus on today, though are the bird’s […]

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Don’t Let the Passerby Pass You By the By-Pass

It is interesting how quick our lives can come in and out of contact with another person. One look. One glance. One pass. And sometimes people have found love at first sight…an aha moment… a lifelong friend. Paths of the passerby continue to cross all the time…at the grocery store…across the street…at the traffic light. As […]

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The Calculations of a Comic Book Artist

Today’s Weight 148.6 lb. Goal Weight 130 lb. Days Left: 14 Miles going today: 8 Weight loss is a mathematical venture. For those not inclined to mathematics…1 lb. = 3500 calories. To lose 1 lb. you have burn 3500 calories. If I want to lose 10 lbs. I have to burn 35,000 calories. I burn about […]

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