Comments on: Guest Blog: Julie Ditrich on Unlocking and Accessing the Darkness Within: 7 Keys for Comics Creators

By: GUEST BLOG: Jozef Szekeres | A Distant Soil by Colleen Doran

GUEST BLOG: Jozef Szekeres | A Distant Soil by Colleen Doran — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 15:35:37 +0000

[...] He also has a a very impressive list of conceptual design credits, and line of outstandingly gorgeous dolls. He’s also the artist for the upcoming Black Mermaid Productions comic Elf-Fin. Which is made of all kinds of gorgeous, and which you will want muchly when it comes out. It is a fully painted series about mermaids, written by his partner Julie Ditrich, who has also written guest blogs at A Distant Soil. [...]

By: Colleen

Colleen — Mon, 18 May 2009 18:03:35 +0000

Zuvembies?

You are kidding me.

BTW, is the reference to the pseudo-split personality another term for compartmentalizing?

By: VT

VT — Mon, 18 May 2009 15:54:21 +0000

Julie, that’s a great essay; I really dug the links to the works on archetypes. I agree that acting is a great way to begin to dig into oneself, and enriches our art.

By: JKCarrier

JKCarrier — Mon, 18 May 2009 04:01:38 +0000

Laurie: Ha, I remember the heyday of “black blood”! It’s funny how some things could just slide right by the Comics Code. Like Marvel using “zuvembies” instead of “zombies”, or Invisible Kid cussing in French…

By: Colleen

Colleen — Mon, 18 May 2009 02:38:05 +0000

I’ve never had any cause for concern that writing about an evil character was a reflection on me, and was quite surprised to learn that other people associated fictional acts with the personal character of the author. If anything, I am more surprised when the author IS like their work than when they are not.

I love the story of the frog and the scorpion. When I’ve had to deal with evil people, sometimes I have had others try to tell me that perhaps the person who did The Bad was really just in pain or misguided. That may very well be true.

Or they might be a scorpion.

I could choose to sit around and ponder whether or not someone is just displaying scorpion-like traits, or I could get the heck out of stinging range.

Life is short, and scorpions make it shorter.