I’ve been travelling a great deal lately, and I’ve tried to make the most it. Here’s my top 10 tips for flying off to conventions. Carry-on luggage only. No need to worry about waiting time and lost luggage. Never pack more than one pair of – comfortable – shoes. Take off your belt and put the contents […]
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Work in progress: EATING AN ELEPHANT – PART I
How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. There are no shortcuts to writing and drawing a graphic novel. And believe me, I’ve looked everywhere! I tend to let stories simmer for a long time, adding elements as I come across things that might fit in. When it comes to writing the script, I […]
Recommended: LEAPING TALL BUILDINGS
I was recently in New York for the Mocca Festival, where I met a lot of new friends last year and lugged home way too many comics. This time around I tried not to buy tons of books, but I did get my signed copy of Christopher Irving and Seth Kushners book Leaping Tall Buildings: The […]
Film School Confidential: ALL GREEK TO ME
This week has been a hotch-potch of different tutors and input. Tuesday we talked about loss and watched the first half of the Belgian thriller Calvaire: The Ordeal. Loss can be a powerful motivation for characters, as we tend to yearn for what we used to have or something we at least have had a […]
Film School Confidential: MAN AND MYTH
It’s film school week again, and I’m here early so I can get some work done. Yesterday was an all-day seminar with Ingolf Gabold, former head of national tv channel DR’s drama department, where he was responsible for developing series such as Borgen, Sommer and Forbrydelsen (aka. The Killing, remade in the US). Gabold took […]
Video: HARVEY PEKAR’S CLEVELAND
I hit the ground running when I came back from MoCCA, just now trying to gather my notes.I shot this little clip at a talk in Book Court in Brooklyn and promised to put it up here. It’s Harvey Pekar‘s widow Joyce Brabner and artist Joseph Remnant talking about Cleveland and Pekar’s working methods . You can […]