Jerzy Drozd
Teaching Artist and Cartoonist
Jerzy Drozd
Teaching Artist and Cartoonist
Today I share a loose confederation of thoughts that I’ve been kicking around about the dangers of focusing too much on the “definitive” body of your work, and how that notion is being challenged by the way content is distributed
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It’s a wombo-sized episode of TPD today as I share my experiences in developing, practicing, and finally presenting my Ignite Ann Arbor and Ignite Chelsea talks! Thank you for making 100 episodes of Thunder Punch Daily possible, everybody! You can
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Confronting fears to put a little steam in your stride is today’s topic. I share some thoughts on projects I’m taking on like Ignite Ann Arbor, Ignite Chelsea, and a new video series I’m developing for release next year. At
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In prepping for my workshop at Specs Howard, I found myself ruminating on some of the wonderful storytelling techniques that can be found in Manga. I share a few of my favorites, highlighting how these aren’t exactly new to Western
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Every once in a while we find ourselves looking upon the success of others as a sign that they’re made of something that we’re not, or we come up against a group of people who have bought into their own
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Today I share some thoughts on the dark places we can find ourselves when we overly define our missions or take our works too seriously. In true Bob Newhart fashion I use a personal anecdote to demonstrate my point. I
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Today I share some thoughts on a topic that eats at me from time to time; namely, when people try to defuse a comics debate with the phrase “It’s just comics”. I think this phrase and the psychology behind it
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Today I answer a question from Rene van Belzen about how to keep the fires burning when working on a long-form comic. I share some of my personal experiences in letting old projects go until I found the story that
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Today I respond to a post in the forum by Jon David Guerra, which was essentially a question about how concerned we cartoonists should be about our style changing over time in a comics project. If you use the word
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Today I share some thoughts about what keeps us going while working in obscurity and how it relates to the old joke where a spouse says to the other “If you don’t know, I’m not going to tell you!” Subscribe
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