Sequential Artists Workshop

This week Jess and I continued our discussion of PITCHING, and about feeling weird and lousy and under pressure and low boundary and high maintenance and under the gun and everything else! Tune in next week to for Episode 8 of The Terrible Anvil: Monetizing Every Moment of Waking Existence on Instagram (What Could Go Wrong?) I believe a transcript will be posted with this!? Cheers’ y’all Here’s so...

In this week's episode of The Terrible Anvil we talked about pitching your work—whether short-form comics or book proposals—and getting published as a comics artist. Some really great ideas from the chat that we hope to touch on in episode seven (a sort of sequel, with maybe more of a focus on BOOK pitching.) Tom   mentioned the  expectations of what a book contract or publishing project will do f...

This week’s Terrible Anvil we talk about CHOOSING IDEAS and then LETTERING We talked a lot about IDEAS as SPELLS, and that ideas assert themselves. And Ideas are invitations to act. But they don’t all have to be acted upon. They come and they go. We answered from the crowd: If you have too many ideas whirling around your head, what's a good way of picking one out to work on?  and How do you reconc...

Episode 4 - Building the Dream Castle Today on Episode Four of The Terrible Anvil, we tried to tackle the topic of making a sustainable creative physical space and habits to make work. And as usual we veered off topic and expanded and waxed philosophical on all the different types of "castles" creatives build: the physical workspace, the vision for the work itself, the audience you hope to reach....

Episode 3 - On Early Drafts We had THREE topics that were somewhat braided together: * A thought Jess had: Become more interested in DOING what you're doing than KNOWING what you're doing. * A quote I wrote down: "I often find myself writing long meandering first drafts, that drift around a bit before settling down into a state of baffling indecision." - George Saunders * (and a quote Tom had hand...

Episode 2 - Lean into the worst In the Comics FLOW + PUBLISH group we asked around: how do you lean in when the going gets weird? What parts are EXTRA UNFUN, and how do you navigate it? Helen asked about deadlines. Oneita asked about guilt. Virginia asked about backgrounds. We spoke on all these topics, as well as the role of ritual and community in answering these three questions. We cooked up id...

How do you make comics without all the frustration? Without feeling lousy and inadequate all the time? With the Terrible Anvil of daily deadlines! And a community, and mindset shift about what it means to make comics and art. Jess Ruliffson and Tom Hart are working through the whole process, one piece at a time, turning frustration into fun and glee. Episode 1 - What Part of Comics is the Hardest?...