"Stories" Blogs & Blog Posts

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Some Gen X/Millennial cultural pathology stems from two qualities of the stories we were told in childhood, at the peak of the television era, all those cartoons. First, the creative folks hired to make them were getting systematic about using effect...

I don't know if you're like me, but I hate the question, "so, who's the good guy in this movie?" It's a benign enough question, but I feel that placing characters in a "good or bad" binary robs us of the tools to have a nuanced discussion about narra...

Back in Art School, Al McNae was my Color & Composition teacher. His skills with gouache and a sable brush were honed over decades as a designer at Ford and later Boeing.  Al loved to tell stories of his days back at Ford, and the hijinks the de...

I’ve had a busy summer thus far, and I’ve neglected this blog for a month or two but I will be putting up a new post soon! In the meantime I’ve had lovely news which some of you may already have seen on my facebook and twitter feeds: I’ve bee...

There are a lot of great storytelling lessons that writers can learn from the work of Brian K Vaughan. But his collaboration with Fiona Staples on Saga, their ongoing YA/NC-17 sci-fi fantasy space family soap opera comic, goes even further. — R...