TUESDAY MORNING Seifert emerges from the core of his satellite house into bright, bright sunlight. The spherical 6000-cubic-foot core is the innermost level of his home. He steps onto the core’s outer surface, which is the floor of the next layer of his home: the space deck. The third and final layer is above his [...]
June 13, 2008
Categories: Flash Fiction Fridays, My Leap Year . Tags: Flash Fiction Fridays, science fiction . Author: JC Monroe . Comments: 1 Comment
Today’s Meditation for the Comic Creator. A good companion piece to the previous one: The trick of complex comics–and this is something I learned from 80s publisher and comic activist Paul Gravett, later reinforced in a long conversation with Bryan Talbot while he was producing The Tale of One Bad Rat–is knowing that the hardest [...]
June 11, 2008
Categories: Comics Forward, My Leap Year . Tags: Alan Moore, Bryan Talbot, clarity, experimentation, Paul Gravett, The Tale of One Bad Rat, Warren Ellis . Author: JC Monroe . Comments: 1 Comment
[My Leap Year is a 12-month life project (begun 11/01/07) at the end of which I intend to be writing full-time. 365 small steps = 1 giant leap.] I have a lot of projects close to the edge, they just need a litle nudge. After that, their own momentum will do a lot of the [...]
June 9, 2008
Categories: My Leap Year . Tags: momentum, nudge, project x, SDCC, turning point . Author: JC Monroe . Comments: Leave a Comment
Today’s Meditation for the Comic Creator. The next several of these will be from Warren Ellis, due to all the great stuff I found when doing my Seed Culture search-reading. It’s hard to do melody in comics. I’ve ben messing around with it for years, trying to duplicate My Bloody Valentine or Pixies effects in [...]
June 3, 2008
Categories: Comics Forward, My Leap Year . Tags: Authority, Bad Signal, Bryan Hitch, Bryan Talbot, Dr. Feelgood, Luther Arkwright, meditation, My Bloody Valentine, Pixies, Pretty Like Drugs, Queenadreena, Scott McCloud, Seed Culture, Understanding Comics, Warren Ellis . Author: JC Monroe . Comments: 2 Comments
Here’s a video of me pitching my book SMOKER as one of the finalists in the inaugeral Comic Book Challenge in San Diego in 2006: We had to submit one page of art with our original 1-page pitch. The art that they all (including Marc Silvestri) mention liking so much was this page, by the [...]
June 2, 2008
Categories: Comic Projects, My Leap Year . Tags: NYCC, Zuda, Smoker, Comic Book Challenege, SDCC, Ryan Sergeant, hat, visual branding, marketing, branding, David Gallaher, Steve Ellis, High Moon, creator ownership . Author: JC Monroe . Comments: 6 Comments
