Comic Interviews and Links
on August 24th, 2010A great big interview with me. I gave this interview ages ago, and am surprised to see it finally coming out.
I hope to help people help themselves. I don’t want to be a guru. I want to give people tools, or point them in the right direction.
At the same time, I don’t think some of the fans realize how much time and effort I put into this. I spend hours writing some of these articles that also take time to research. They are read by thousands of people, and they make a pittance. I do this as a public service, but I have no choice but to be frugal about who gets my time and who doesn’t.
If I encounter someone I think will excel, I will go out of my way for them because I think there will be a tangible return on the investment. And that tangible return means the future of their career. I want to see people do well. Not everyone will do well. I make a judgment and proceed on that judgment. It is entirely subjective, and I make no apologies for those choices.
In the interview, I whine about the 600+ emails in my inbox. Last week it was over 1,000. I am now back down to 408.
At Inside Higher Ed, graphic novels as teaching tools make for better students.
Formal evaluations showed that 86 percent of his students that used the book said they agreed or strongly agreed that it “compares favorably” to other management textbooks they’ve had, Short said. He added that the most rewarding part of the process teaching with Atlas Black is having students wonder what happens in the story when the book ends. “The idea of a student asking what comes next in a textbook is really just unfathomable,” he said.
I was always a better student when I had a comic slipped inside my textbook. Look what comics made of me!
Online Masters lists the top forty comics for the classroom with the graphic novel Orbiter by Warren Ellis and moi sneaking on to the list at #40. Hat tip: The Comics Reporter.
An interview with the reserved and gracious Stuart Moore, the author who did the adaptation of The Last Feast of Harlequin, which I had the privilege to illustrate for The Nightmare Factory.
Everyone else has this already, but what the heck. Frank Miller’s ad for Gucci.
I have a published writer friend who is at the point as she is going to have to stop answering most if not all emails that aren’t really personal to her or her writing, she’s just getting too many now. That fact is stressing her out because she likes talking to her readers.
408 emails seems such a large number to me, I cant even think about 1000.
Thanks for linking to the interview. I’m getting good feedback about it, even if it took me forever to get it up
just went to Brian’s site. The article is <3 (and glad to hear something about Charity Larrison getting a gig! WooT!) and also glad to hear Lea Hernandez will be next up on the interview queue. Bookmarked the blog. Great reading.
Jack Chick? Okay… as an example, I can see…
I’ve read most of them… and they had me until they described Asterix as a viking…
Congrats on making the list. You also sort of get an “honorable mention” for Sandman.
I love to learn stuff from comics, and this new “fictional non-fiction” genre offers some interesting techniques. Atlas Black has some great art (I sense an animation background, possibly via Don Bluth), and does a decent job of dealing with a lot of text.
Oh, and it’s a WEB comic… with a Creative Commons license. $15 for a paper copy, which is darn cheap for a textbook!
(Wow… there’s a calculus textbook* GN from 1989! 53,000 copies sold!
http://www.math.sjsu.edu/~swann/mcsqrd.html )
* text book. comic book. Both terms don’t really describe what the book is, do they?