Letters About Comics
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130 / Welcome To Shit Hill, Population—Me
My brand new short story collection is now available!
• 4 minute read
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126 / Equanimity Visualised
A new story from me, plus some extra thoughts on finding your voice
• 3 minute read
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123 / Make Art, Get It Seen
I’m thrilled to announce my debut short story collection is now on sale!
• 4 minute read
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120 / Visual Storytelling (in Three Acts)
A step-by-step guide to the many choices a filmmaker or comics artist makes in telling a story.
• 8 minute read
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118 / The Storytelling Stick
Sticks, Twitches, Gifts and Touchstones — let me show you how these simple devices can make your stories rich with meaning.
• 3 minute read
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116 / Making The Invisible Visible
I attempt to explain visual storytelling - with emojis! 🤯
• 5 minute read
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113 / Sometimes You Have To See It, To See It
I’m excited to reveal a new creative storytelling project and a pop-up newsletter!
• 3 minute read
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112 / Instantaneous Paper Rebellion!
In praise of a medium that is at once unmeasurable, hopelessly unscalable and algorithmically unfathomable.
• 4 minute read
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107 / Three! New! Things!
Two videos and a comic short story - all finished this week.
• 1 minute read
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094 / How I Made a Comic Short Story
A step-by-step breakdown of making my four-page comic Negroni With A Twist - with lots of pictures!
• 5 minute read
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093 / Negroni With A Twist
I wasn’t expecting to draw a whole short story in 2020 but here it is - I hope you enjoy it!
• 1 minute read
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092 / Another Story About The Universe
Big Magic is everywhere, if you know where to look. Plus a new film I’ve made is now out!
• 2 minute read
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090 / Don't Make Work Out Of Things You Enjoy
Some thoughts on creativity and work, plus an important announcement about the future of this newsletter.
• 3 minute read
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071 / The Lockdown Diaries
I’ve been keeping a visual journal during lockdown and I’ve learned to pay attention to the little things.
• 4 minute read
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070 / Asterios Polyp
I break down the visual storytelling in this radical and fascinating graphic novel.
• 2 minute read
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060 / Stormy Weather
A short comic about weathering my own personal storms this month.
• 1 minute read
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058 / A Kind of Aliveness I Live For
A crucial distinction for all artists - you don’t think in order to draw, you draw in order to think.
• 3 minute read
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055 / Sequential Art
A look inside Berlin - one of the best graphic novels I’ve ever read and my thoughts on what filmmakers can learn from comics artists.
• 4 minute read
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036 / Things I Know About Visual Storytelling
Sixteen tips to help you improve your filmmaking and comics art.
• 3 minute read
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025 / The Threshold Of Awareness
This diagram helps me tell visual stories that make the audience both think and feel. Here’s how to use it.
• 2 minute read
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013 / Three Thoughts on Visual Storytelling
On Spiderman Into The Spider-Verse, the nature of juxtaposition and writing screenplay dialogue.
• 4 minute read
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007 / Haiku
A great example of The Third Something at work — in words, not pictures!
• 4 minute read
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004 / It's Telling You What It Wants To Be
Thoughts on the creative process and letting the work tell you what it wants to be.
• 3 minute read