RIDING SHOTGUN
It's not nice to play favorites. But sometimes a story starts breathing with the character sketches. That's a great collaborator for you.
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F&G Annotated Chapter 01
Apologies again for the delay in getting this in front of your eyeballs. I've always been a big fan of cheatsheets and time clocks, but without regular maintenance, everything falls apart. Sometimes, things fall apart anyway.
Thursday Dispatch
A few of you reached out to ask about specific sticky situations that an editor might face when it comes to problem-solving on sequential art. I'm preparing a presentation to share at our live Saturday AMA...
Repeat Offenders & The 5 Qs
Back in March of 2024, I taught a 4-week class on weekends called F&G 102 and created a (Secret) Workbook just for the occasion. I wanted to share some of my favorite pages that involve REPEAT OFFENDERS and the 5 QUESTIONS I ask myself at each stage of editing comics.
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Thursday Dispatch
Back by popular demand: It's another dispatch chock-full of deconstruction as we RIDE SHOTGUN on Where's Willingham?, part 2 of my Comico short comic from Fast Times in Comic Book Editing, wherein it's 1989, the editor is a kid, the writer is at large, and the game's afoot!
Annotating F&G - The Opening Act
I’ve wanted to annotate F&G for eons—long before it was written and drawn. Mostly because the hardest part of making comics for me and probably anyone—writer, artist, newbie, vet—is knowing when to call a page a finished page.
Final Friday Digest Delivery
Happy Final Friday of March! Here's The New British Invasion!
Road Work
Greetings from the road as I make my way towards the Philadelphia airport. Spent a week on the east coast and managed to concoct a special “In Conversation” event with the legend that is Caroline Cash.
DEEP DIVE 012
I need to fall on my sword for this next comic. In classic "Shelly" fashion, when I saw how easily Asimina connected with my comics-about-making-comics ideas, I sent her a few first drafts with blind abandon...
A 4 Chambers vid & Annotating F&G
A 4 Chambers vid with Asimina & Annotating F&G starting with the cover image.
4 CHAMBERS of Riding Shotgun
One of my favorite things to throw at artists and writers is the 4 CHAMBERS grid. I love to see how they make it their own. I could spend the next quarter-century writing one per day and still not exorcise my thoughts on the human condition.
