Printer Porn

Tell the Turning went to press last week in Poland and our publisher has been sending the most delicious slew of process photos from the print house.

Visual Dispatch #5

IT’S ON.

Making Noisy into Quiet

“I don’t really care what I’m doing for money so long as I can write. And not write like I want a job writing copy, write like I sit down most days in my underwear and make noisy into quiet.”

I Didn’t Come Here to Make Enemies

Craft and queerness. “Yes, And”. Forage for what feeds you, leave the rest.

Commonplace

On “bits of the mind’s string too short to use, an indiscriminate and erratic assemblage with meaning only for its maker.”

The NEH, Racism, Good Editors, and Me

There’s always room to be more explicit when it comes to identifying oppressive structures in our work.

All I Want

After a couple extremely chaotic late-night email threads at the start of our collaboration on Seacritters, Kate and I quickly agreed that the best thing to do would be a weekly phone check-in where we could talk about story issues, share sketches, and debrief on any notes we’d received from our editor. I’m not used … Continue reading All I Want

First Foray

I’ve made my first YouTube video! It’s a four-minute rundown on how to bring emotion, action, rhythm, and clarity to bear in writing for comics. Folks who follow me on Patreon know this came about because I’m working on a graphic novel called Seacritters with my friend Kate right now and it’s her first time … Continue reading First Foray

I Don’t Know What I Know Till I Know How I Know It

Area Woman surprised, once again, that people who pay to support her creative career are genuinely invested in its output.

Perfectionism, Process, Patterns

How do I write about talking about how writing is hard?