Notable quotables
§ Paul Dini explains the "animation feature template":
Your primary objective as a modern animation feature storyteller is to get the audience members emotionally charged (i.e., distracted from logic gaps and not thinking too much)...
Wolfman: After 40 years, a Homeland
Marv Wolfman writes to tell us that HOMELAND, his graphical history of Israel, illustrated by Mario Ruiz and William J Rubin has been winning a slew of honors of late, including National Jewish...
Writing the Unthinkable w/Lynda Barry
Above: Illo for the MySpace page for Lynda Barry's Writing the Unthinkable writing seminars.
Pope searches for literary quality in comics
Paul Pope blogs at the First Second website:
Each facet of the comics medium is important and deserves its own special consideration, but it's the writing in comics I'm thinking about right now. I often...
Strike drags on
The WGA strike goes on and on with no early end in sight, as everyone sticks to their trenches. Patrick Goldstein at the LA Times has the very gloomy prognosis:
DESPITE what they say about...
Patterson teams with Yen, Curious Pics
Yet another best selling author James Patterson, is setting up his own toon/graphic novelly/manga deal. Patterson has sold some 140 million books, so that is a lot of books. One deal is with Yen...
Rucka to be a free agent
At his LJ, Greg Rucka casually mentioned he wouldn't be upping his DC exclusive
I was in LA on personal business the last two days, and I got to spend some time with my brother...
Jeff Parker on how to write for artists
Paging every screenwriter who is eyeing the comics medium: PLEASE READ THIS:
Do you really have to pick shots? Think hard on this one. Do you really have a good sense of what will make...
The Show Must Go On
As the writers' strike enters day number (something like 21 or so, forgive me it's late), folks are finding new ways to keep busy.
We saw last week that some of the Daily Show writers...
Strike stuff
Variety paints a gloomy picture of the WGA strike, as talks have stalled and the vitriol level is rising:
Three months of harsh negotiating rhetoric -- combined with widely differing interpretations of the contract talks...
Get the lead out
For all the writer/artist types out there, this might be a cool diversion.
A website devoted to pencils of all shapes, sizes and colors.
If you're a striking writer, stock up on writing utensils while you...
More on storytelling
The Post That Wouldn't Die continues to captivate the blogosphere, and many of my private conversations. My mom called to say she enjoyed it, which was nice. Eddie Campbell, ties it in with a...
