I’m calling my new 12-month project My Leap Year. As in small step/giant leap. Having a couple months to taste the future before I started at Jim Hanley’s gave me a hunger for more of it. A lot more.
And the math of my life fits into three main categories: wife, work and writing. I’d love [...]
Some of you might remember my first year-long writing experiment from a couple years ago, which I called My Comic Book Year. In fact, it was my first foray into blogging, though now the page is merely a stump pointing anyone with an old link back here.
My Comic Book Year was a 12-month effort to [...]
Here’s one of the new features I’ve hinted was coming: flash comics! A comics version of flash fiction, these are self-contained one-page sequential stories. This first one was done by Daniel LaFrance just before we started on CARRIER.
Since flash comics depend on collaboration and more than one person’s schedule, they won’t be as regular a [...]
I’m back! It’s been three weeks, but I’ve returned with a new flash fiction. I’ve now conquered the opening line that had me so stymied on my last attempt, and it feels good.
THE LAST BOOTH
There were four booths along the restaurant’s front window.
The first one held an elderly couple, worn but sturdy, deep in [...]
The publisher for Parable has now officially been announced: Viper Comics. Details are still being worked out, but look for a Spring 2008 release.
I know I’ve dropped off the face of the net here since my last post. I promise new posts, new projects and a potentially new approach to blogging are all brewing…
For those of you in the LA area, Felipe Smith, creator of last week’s You Should Be Reading This, MBQ, is signing tonight at my alma mater Meltdown:
You’re probably thinking at me askance right now. This is Part 1 of my story? So it’s going to be 6 paragraphs long? No, but stories are all about cumulative momentum (at least for me). While this may be all that’s been typed, I spent great swaths of the day trying out various feels, plots, [...]
I’m sorry, folks, but I’ve been staring at the same four words on my screen for a realy long time now, and the story just won’t come. I’m adjusting to the sudden loss of the luxury of huge swaths of writing time as my job has started up in earnest this week, and I’m having [...]
Daniel LaFrance, the talented artist whose work on CARRIER you’ve been watching here on this very blog, has placed as one of the 10 finalists in Comic Book Idol*! He and the other finalists will receive assignments to complete, then you the reader have the opportunity to vote. So please do! Go register at the [...]
