comics and graphic novel
June 2, 2008
- Hey all!!! I wanted to make a blog about my Journey Into Comics program for the Portsmouth Public Library system. The flyer is located here: Now in the process of this tour, I will be telling people just what makes this medium so effective, and why it's taken Hollywood by storm, with everything not nailed down being optioned (and those that are being pried from their housings) and how they can ...
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April 7, 2008
- One of the things I have wanted to do on one blog or another but never found the right place utilize the concept. Here I want to post a script of something I had in development years back that for one reason or another never came to fruition.. Followed by the finished pages to show a compare and contrast. The script I am posting is from Nietzsche Falling #1 --- Which was sent into then ...
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March 17, 2008
- My father has been telling me stories about old China for nearly two decades. It took me eleven years to write my third nonfiction manuscript, and now I am turning the words into images, instructed by my imagination and the parameters of the comics/graphic novel format.Below, in the first panel, we are in my father's garden, and I am asking him questions. The second panel moves to the story of ...
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March 13, 2008
- It is probably 2 A.M. and I am at work on my graphic novel. (Yes, I am a night owl.)This is a photo journal of my day's work on one page of the graphic novel, "Forget Sorrow: A China Elegy." I received notes yesterday from my editor, Alane Salierno Mason, at W. W. Norton and Company. Tools of the Trade Drawing Table, Small Drawing Board, Script and Art on Bristol ...
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March 11, 2008
- I was like a kid looking forward to Christmas presents as I waited for my editor, Alane Salierno Mason,* at W W Norton & Company to send me notes on my graphic novel, "Forget Sorrow: A China Elegy." When the notes did come, I was ready to do somersaults. Then the fear set in and I circled her notes as a lion tamer would a feral beast, wondering from what angle to approah is ...
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February 3, 2008
- Jessica Inclan, fellow redroom.com author, bakes muffins when not writing. I paint or doodle. This below is dedicated to friends Ben Fong-Torres and Jane Ganahl (who interviewed rock stars when she was a journalist at theSF Chronicle). There was a time when I wanted to be a second James Thurber or Shel Silverstein. LOL. I was listening to essays on the subject of "Contentment" on ...
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January 11, 2008
- My adult books contain images I've painted, but the pictures suffer because they are submerged in the sea of words. With the maturation of the graphic novel, words and images carry equal weight--support and play off one another--and have the flexibility to illustrate history and memoir.When I was a kid in Japan, I loved my telephone book sized manga, but when my family emigrated to the US in ...
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