Jerzy Drozd
Teaching Artist and Cartoonist
Jerzy Drozd
Teaching Artist and Cartoonist
While driving to one of my stops on the Kids Read Comics Super Fun Tour, I share some thoughts I’ve been kicking around while evaluating Tumblr and Posterous as free content management systems. Subscribe through iTunes RSS https://jdrozd.com/wp-content/audio/tpd112.mp3Podcast: Play in
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Today I share some thoughts on cover design and put out a call for a new Art & Story challenge inspired by Jamie Gambell and the Covered blog. I use some anecdotes about my thought process on the cover designs between
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Today I revisit a topic I don’t think I’ve touched on in a while (maybe not since the Your Comic From the Ground Up series!): namely, whether or not an artist should finish each page of a project in its
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It’s another double-sized Thunder Punch Special! This time I’m joined by Rob Stenzinger of Art Geek Zoo, Babies Love Comics, and Guitar Fretter! We discuss an often neglected subject in the sometimes overwhelming concerns facing an independent cartoonist–learning coding languages
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Today I share some initial thoughts on drawing on the iPad, having sketched a bit on the device lately. I talk about my experience using Sketchbook Pro, the Pogo stylus, and the BoxWave stylus, and do my best to determine
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Today I make my case for how serving as a freelance storyteller has equipped me with terrific tools to create my own projects. I then spiral out into some more pontificating on how much I dislike the notion of “perfection”.
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Today I revisit some thoughts on writing, and a go-to technique I use to write stories for clients and for myself: starting with a takeaway, or finding the story’s “aboutness”. It’s a slippery topic, and I’d love to hear from
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Today I share some thoughts I’ve been kicking around about how tablet and mobile devices might be the key to reaching young people with our work. Throughout the discussion I mention a recent episode of the Spark podcast, the Corona
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Today I share some thoughts from the car as I wrestle with a comment reportedly made by a well-known comics personality on the “Manga Syndrome” and beginning artists who ape the style of others. I get a little angry in
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Today I fight through a cold to share some thoughts on how to start up a public comics event in your town. It can be done, if you organize and have a plan! Subscribe through iTunes RSS https://jdrozd.com/wp-content/audio/tpd104.mp3Podcast: Play in
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