I’ve been a fan of Scott McCloud’s books on writing comics — books on writing in general, really, because his insights into narrative purpose and narrative structure are fascinating — but for some reason it wasn’t until a few months ago that I finally picked up McCloud’s own graphic fiction, Zot! When I did, itContinue reading “Zot!, heroism, love, and the bravest story in comics”
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A Writer’s Notebook: “Casting a Wide Net”
This week, another exercise from Scott McCloud’s Making Comics. In this exercise, McCloud asks us to create a cast of characters that share one trait (from a list of traits–see below) but are different in at least four other ways. These academics are my four characters (in the order I wrote them). Sandra: 45, aContinue reading “A Writer’s Notebook: “Casting a Wide Net””
A Writer’s Notebook: Comics cut-and-paste
Today: Some comics. Slightly later today: An explanation of the exercise. In some ways, this exercise is similar to last week’s, in that I’m “borrowing” from other sources and piecing them together into new art. Of course, this looks wildly different: It’s more than partly visual. I’ve just finished reading the third of Scott McCloud‘sContinue reading “A Writer’s Notebook: Comics cut-and-paste”
Samuel Snoek-Brown 