Letters About Comics

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144 / Napier's Law

What a Tudor mathematician taught me about visual storytelling

• 2 minute read

135 / The Next Stage

How I wrote the first draft of my graphic novel

• 3 minute read

134 / Return, Stop, Peak, Start

Endings, beginnings and an exciting announcement

• 3 minute read

130 / Welcome To Shit Hill, Population—Me

My brand new short story collection is now available!

• 4 minute read

126 / Equanimity Visualised

A new story from me, plus some extra thoughts on finding your voice

• 3 minute read

123 / Make Art, Get It Seen

I’m thrilled to announce my debut short story collection is now on sale!

• 4 minute read

120 / Visual Storytelling (in Three Acts)

A step-by-step guide to the many choices a filmmaker or comics artist makes in telling a story.

• 8 minute read

118 / The Storytelling Stick

Sticks, Twitches, Gifts and Touchstones — let me show you how these simple devices can make your stories rich with meaning.

• 3 minute read

116 / Making The Invisible Visible

I attempt to explain visual storytelling - with emojis! 🤯

• 5 minute read

113 / Sometimes You Have To See It, To See It

I’m excited to reveal a new creative storytelling project and a pop-up newsletter!

• 3 minute read

112 / Instantaneous Paper Rebellion!

In praise of a medium that is at once unmeasurable, hopelessly unscalable and algorithmically unfathomable.

• 4 minute read

107 / Three! New! Things!

Two videos and a comic short story - all finished this week.

• 1 minute read

101 / One Thing At A Time

Some thoughts on productivity and visual storytelling.

• 3 minute read

094 / How I Made a Comic Short Story

A step-by-step breakdown of making my four-page comic Negroni With A Twist - with lots of pictures!

• 5 minute read

093 / Negroni With A Twist

I wasn’t expecting to draw a whole short story in 2020 but here it is - I hope you enjoy it!

• 1 minute read

092 / Another Story About The Universe

Big Magic is everywhere, if you know where to look. Plus a new film I’ve made is now out!

• 2 minute read

090 / Don't Make Work Out Of Things You Enjoy

Some thoughts on creativity and work, plus an important announcement about the future of this newsletter.

• 3 minute read

071 / The Lockdown Diaries

I’ve been keeping a visual journal during lockdown and I’ve learned to pay attention to the little things.

• 4 minute read

070 / Asterios Polyp

I break down the visual storytelling in this radical and fascinating graphic novel.

• 2 minute read

060 / Stormy Weather

A short comic about weathering my own personal storms this month.

• 1 minute read

058 / A Kind of Aliveness I Live For

A crucial distinction for all artists - you don’t think in order to draw, you draw in order to think.

• 3 minute read

055 / Sequential Art

A look inside Berlin - one of the best graphic novels I’ve ever read and my thoughts on what filmmakers can learn from comics artists.

• 4 minute read

036 / Things I Know About Visual Storytelling

Sixteen tips to help you improve your filmmaking and comics art.

• 3 minute read

025 / The Threshold Of Awareness

This diagram helps me tell visual stories that make the audience both think and feel. Here’s how to use it.

• 2 minute read

013 / Three Thoughts on Visual Storytelling

On Spiderman Into The Spider-Verse, the nature of juxtaposition and writing screenplay dialogue.

• 4 minute read

007 / Haiku

A great example of The Third Something at work — in words, not pictures!

• 4 minute read

004 / It's Telling You What It Wants To Be

Thoughts on the creative process and letting the work tell you what it wants to be.

• 3 minute read

003 / Movies Made In Slow Motion

How graphic novels and films are sister mediums, speaking the same language.

• 3 minute read