{"id":1874,"date":"2010-04-15T15:25:20","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T15:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2010\/04\/15\/makin_comics\/"},"modified":"2024-11-28T01:58:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T06:58:00","slug":"makin_comics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2010\/04\/15\/makin_comics\/","title":{"rendered":"Makin’ Comics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Before stumbling my way into<\/strong> design and typography while working on my high school newspaper \u2014 and discovering that I loved doing that stuf A LOT \u2014 my goal in life was to draw comics, which was how I passed quite a lot of my free time and a significant chunk of my time in math and science class before that. (Note: I wasn’t especially good at drawing comics, but I loved it.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My desire to focus on comics as a profession gave my to a more intense interest in type, but I still dabbled with illustration for a while, and certainly my love for reading comics remained strong. As a designer, too, I\u2019ve always been intrigued by how comics function visually, and how they have their own ways of being narrative. So when I stumble across good advice from talented comic artists, I always take note.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I while back I came across this piece about Wally Wood\u2019s 22 Panels That Always Work<\/a>, an incredible short guide to effective composition, drawn up by an industry veteran<\/a> and apparently in unofficial circulation for years. It\u2019s a gem. (Small version here, but you owe it yourself to check out the bigger version<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Just recently I also came across Bill Griffith<\/a>\u2019s Top 40 List on Comics and Their Creation<\/a>. These are brilliant, but are more about the practical realities of working as a cartoonist in comparison to Wally Wood’s tips, which are more about the comics themselves. And even though a lot of Griffy’s advice is very specific to his model for working, they’re smart and practical and sardonic, which I always like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Each of these should be considered treasures of the comics form, and contain lots of wisdom for anyone working in a visual medium. Learn them. Consider them. Live them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Before stumbling my way into design and typography while working on my high school newspaper \u2014 and discovering that I loved doing that stuf A LOT \u2014 my goal in life was to draw comics, which was how I passed quite a lot of my free time and a significant chunk of my time in … Continue reading “Makin’ Comics”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultracomics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1874"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71640,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1874\/revisions\/71640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}