Today I give a sort of book review of a comic I finished recently–Peter Bagge’s excellent Other Lives
, published by DC’s Vertigo imprint. I break it down by plot and theme, but as you might have guessed, I also talk about how this book demonstrates the things that only comics can do.
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Today I share an exercise I’ve used in my classrooms to teach some vital comics storytelling skills. By drawing a conversation sequence, we explore moment choices, scenery, emotional context, acting moments, and best of all, word balloon placement!
Also mentioned some great lettering tutorials over at Balloon Tales.
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Today I blast through a few go-to checkpoints I use when creating word balloons on my pages.
The Checkpoints Mentioned:
I referred to Art & Story episodes 95 and 79 in this episode, if you want to hear more extensive talk on lettering. I also talked about an Adobe Illustrator video tutorial I posted some time ago, as well as Comicraft and Blambot.
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Today I leap off of something Kim Holm mentioned about lettering on a recent A&S Extreme!! I talk about how the principles of line value in illustration are exactly analogous to the way I like to think about lettering. I talk a little inside baseball at the top of this one, discussing how I use Hindenburg Mobile to record the show.
I referred to Art & Story episodes 95 and 79 in this episode, if you want to hear more extensive talk on lettering.
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