Jerzy Drozd

Teaching Artist and Cartoonist. He/him. When life is feeling heavy, I enjoy creating and sharing stories of cute heroes showing extraordinary courage.

Thunder Punch Daily 07 – Darkness and Compassion

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Today’s thought comes by way of Jose Gonzales, who posted a casual wondering on Twitter recently about whether or not it’s useful to channel dark feelings into one’s cartooning work. I leap off of that to share some of my thoughts on using anger, outrage, or dissatisfaction to inform one’s work, how I’ve misused anger in some of my past works, and how Joseph Campbell’s thoughts on Erotic Irony can be a way to use those dark feelings with compassion in our comics.

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Thunder Punch Daily 06 – Argue for your Theme

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I’ve talked quite a bit about using themes in past Art & Story episodes, but in this episode of Thunder Punch Daily I describe a strategy I use quite a bit in building a story that expresses my themes; namely, using my characters as advocates for different sides of the theme’s “argument”.

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Thunder Punch Daily 04 – Opposites are Mighty

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Today I use some examples from The Replacements to explore the role of opposites in storytelling. Even if they start out as bitter enemies, opposites can find themselves forging unexpected and lasting friendships!

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Thunder Punch Daily 03 – Inspiration Is Not Elusive

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The Art Mullet!The ages-old question: Where do you find your inspiration? Today I tackle that concept, highlighting how the Art Mullet figures in and how consuming lots and lots of information is essential. I close with a short anecdote of how I discovered my own strategy for finding inspiration in one of my comics projects.
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Thunder Punch Daily 01 – Let It Be

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In the first episode of my new microcast, I share a few thoughts about letting a creative project become what it wants to be. Using my thoughts about starting up the microcast itself as a modeling exercise, I explore the notion of how a project can have DNA, yet we should remain open for the surprises that occur as we fully investigate what the project might become.

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