Kung Fu Monkey

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In case you hadn't heard, Mark Waid is thinking of doing some digital comics . Heh. In a small way I've been aiding Mark as he...

“Artist, please draw more attention to the severed head.” Probably my favorite part of the editorial job--not co-plotting with writers, not ...

Here's this week's column of advice for writers and creative folk: spend the sixty lousy bucks on Quicken and be done with it. Don...

A sister post to last week's about how to energize your plots by letting the characters make unexpected choices. Fair warning--this post...

Wherever you were yesterday at about 10:00 a.m. PST, if you heard the distant sound of a scream, that was me. I'd gone to bed the previo...

Writing this one on the plane from La Guardia to LAX, so it may or not be posted by Wednesday depending upon how late the flight gets in. ...

There used to be a Triangle Rule in comics. I first heard it from one of my mentors, the brilliant writer/cartoonist William Messner - Loebs...

Straight up, I will tell you that with the craptacularly unproductive week I have just had, I don't feel qualified today to give anyone ...

When I was working at a company called Crossgen back in 2001, I was stuck writing a book called Sigil . I didn’t start it; it was inherited....

Losing two of the next five days to cross-country flights, but no complaints from me. I’m on my way to the Orlando MegaCon this week, and w...

Following up on some of last week's post about The Job of a Comic Book Editor.... I made several big presumptions and (at least) one ill...

...how honored I am that at last I can hear what my essays would sound like if they were read aloud by the dwarf from Twin Peaks . Thanks, ...

Look, SOMEONE's got to get this stuff out of the hands of the writers and artists and to press. Comics editors, rumors to the contrary, ...

Continuing the sample proposal from last week.... THE SERIES ISSUE ONE: We introduce Samantha, Wolf, the concept of the Hunter-Killer ...

The difference between a pitch and the next stage of the development process—a proposal—is story. A proposal must demonstrate that your pitc...