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  • Story Strategy: Adapting from Public Domain.
  • Emanata & !#@?$%!
  • The short and silent story
  • My Comics Processes!
  • Character and Design
  • Haiku, Senryū & Tanka
  • Somewhere to start, on ‘Story’
  • George Saunders On Story
  • Write A Short Anything…
  • Focus Statements & XY Formulae
  • An aside on Genre vs Literary
  • Words of advice on Character
  • girl#2 – a comic about tropes
  • Juxtaposition!
  • Transitions!
  • Like moving pictures, but not
  • Visual Storytelling in Cinema
  • Details, texture & simplicity!
  • The Grids
  • Flow, & the Eyelines!
  • Basic Drawing Exercises
  • What is Cartooning
  • Noodle Arms to Bigfoot: A Cartoon family
  • Thumbnailing layouts!
  • Penciling!
  • Inking with a Brush
  • Balancing with histograms
  • Making your own ‘Blue Lines’
  • Analog lettering & Photoshop?
  • Digital aided Lettering!
  • Grants, page rates, crowdfunding & $$!
  • Comix Jams!
  • How to use an Ames Guide
  • Old school page patching
  • Page aspect ratios & templates

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