The first person your hero should save is YOU.
My Maker Mantras
If you don’t want to be bothered at a comic con, just sit behind a table in artist’s alley ...
So why isn't anyone telling stories anymore?
For all that artists have to offer, they're often the most hesitant of any industry, plagued by pretension, procrastination, or self-doubt.
What's that thing you REALLY want to make and deliver so you get paid?
Today's mantra is a celebration of this week's Thanksgiving holiday.
I've developed a few strategies for selling my comics ...
If you don't think art should have a cost, you don't think it has a value -- plain and simple.
Making art without a plan for distribution is like singing opera in the shower ...
Inktober is creating graphic art. Making comics is creating graphic art in the service of narrative. One is drawing pictures; one is telling a story. I'm not...
Frankly, if you don't have - or aren't developing - a conscious philosophy about making art, you aren't an artist. You're a hobbyist. That's okay, too ...
I've been working on a strategy for creative time management for years, and I recently had a revelation that I'm adapting as this week's mantra.
After the work itself, a bio is the most important thing you’ll create. It tells people who you are, and what you do.
Nothing is above your pay grade -- not when what you're making is PRICELESS.
I don't want to make something easily scrolled away. I don't want to make decor. I want to tell stories and create things that have legs ...
Among the many lessons I've learned from Batman over the years, these are the most prominent ...
Original is better than good.
When you default to the dream, it gets that much closer to reality.
I make comics because I’m STARVING to make them – not because I’m just STARVING.
I make comics because I’m STARVING to make them – not because I’m just STARVING.
Repeat to yourself: This isn’t a side hustle. This is the MAIN GIG.
The lesson here is, even if your art isn’t meeting your standards, you can STILL sell it on the merit of why you’re making it at all. In other words, you don’t...
How can a comics self-publisher – or any independent artist in any medium – find an audience when AI threatens creatives everywhere?
“Good is good, but DONE is BETTER.”
