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Audio journals on making and teaching comics.

TPD 155 – Using Tapastic

Boulder and Fleet, pg 3This time I share a few thoughts on the experiment I’m running with the Boulder and Fleet webcomic. I’m posting the comic natively to several different channels and observing different results from each of them. Tapastic, in particular, has presented some interesting challenges in terms of interface and surprises in audience interaction.

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Music for this show is by Eliott Drozd.
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Voiceover by Tara Platt
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TPD 154 – Bookmarking

pinterestAfter going through my weekly ritual of digitally gathering inspiration reference materials (in prep for this week’s LIA Cast), I realized that I haven’t quite solved the problem of cataloging and reviewing digital reference files. Today’s TPD is comparing the benefits of physical “reference morgues” vs digital ones.

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TPD 153 – Shifting Gears with Focus

TPD I’ve been shifting gears a lot today and facing the challenge of keeping focus. So I share a few of my thoughts on how I try to stay focused and get through my to-do lists.

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Music for this show is by Eliott Drozd.
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TPD 152 – Vision vs Audience

Boulder and FleetThis time I share the surprise I’ve felt in how relaxed I’ve been about the Boulder and Fleet webcomic. Surprise invites the question “why,” so I explore what is different between this webcomic and others I’ve run, which leads me to some thinking about goals, vision, and an author’s expectations in terms of audience.

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TPD 151 – Art Soundoff

Art SoundoffThunder Punch Daily is back for a month of daily updates! Why? Because Rob Stenzinger and I have launched a creative challenge for the month of November, that’s why!

In this episode I talk about my experiences with Inktober, the reasons behind the Art Soundoff Challenge, and how I prepare for a journal microcast.

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Thunder Punch Daily 150 – What Tools Should You Use?

For the 150th episode I break format and answer an email rather than come in with a formulated essay on comic-making. But I think there’s an essay in there somewhere as I give a report on what tools I use to make comics as of September 2013.

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Thunder Punch Daily 149 – Why He-Man has that Mysterious Smile

Masters of the UniverseToday I explain my thinking process behind the design of He-Man in that big Masters of the Universe pitch I recently put together, and use it as a modeling exercise to highlight the various elements of communication in character design. If, as Dan Mishkin once said, everything in a comic is unreal, making everything real, then everything you use in your design is an opportunity to express something about your characters, their world, and the story’s worldview.

Music for this show is by Eliott Drozd.
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Thunder Punch Daily 148 – Respecting the Work

We often look back on our old work and groan. Why is this? Is it humble to talk our old work down, even when someone is responding to it positively? What changes when we approach our body of work (big or small) with a sense of respect?

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Thunder Punch Extra #1 – Flipping Weakness

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Thunder Punch Daily 147 – Avoiding Urgency

maxx-steeleTPD returns with some thoughts on writing in the medium that works for you and how urgency can be the inspiration killer!

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Thunder Punch Special 03 – Conventioning Punch

TPD is back! I took advantage of Richard Stevens’s visit to the United States (and his recent convention experience at Kids Read Comics) to get his perspective on tabling at a convention for the first time. Together we turn his hard-won knowledge into some useful tips for the first-time exhibitor.

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