Essays About Visual Storytelling

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Bedroom-able Art

My theory about how innovative art gets made.

• 7 minute read

This Is Everything

What’s the best comic I’ve ever read?

• 1 minute read

Napier's Law

What a Tudor mathematician taught me about visual storytelling

• 2 minute read

Fresh Eyes on Old Memories

Rewatching some videos I haven’t seen in nearly a decade!

• 6 minute read

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

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

Poor Miss Lonely Hearts

Let me tell you about The Golden Action — visual storytelling at its most creative and potent.

• 4 minute read

Making The Invisible Visible

I attempt to explain visual storytelling - with emojis! 🤯

• 5 minute read

Instantaneous Paper Rebellion!

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

• 4 minute read

One Thing At A Time

Some thoughts on productivity and visual storytelling.

• 3 minute read

You Don't Have To Start At The Beginning

Spending time with Hayao Miyazaki has kickstarted my comics storytelling!

• 3 minute read

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

Storytelling Panel By Panel

The third and final guest letter, with some useful advice on plotting out the panels of a comic.

• 4 minute read

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

Asterios Polyp

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

• 2 minute read