Ep 121: Michael Dante DiMartino

Michael Dante DiMartino, co-creator of Avatar: The Last Airbender and author of Rebel Genius and its sequel, Warrior Genius, on being obsessed with 50s art, how Avatar was pitched perfectly wrong, writing art as magic, and starting to write by hand.   Michael Dante DiMartino Show Notes The 2018 First Draft calendar Kirsten Hubbard William S. Burroughs Beat poetry Garfield (comic) Bloom County (comic) Abstract expressionism Jackson Pollock Mark Rothko Willem de Kooning Brian Konietzko, co-creator of Avatar: The Last Airbender King of the Hill (TV show) Beavis and Butthead (TV show) Atomic Love Family Guy (TV show) Mission Hill (TV show) Invader Zim (TV show) Spongebob Squarepants (TV show) Hayao Miyazaki The Hero with 10,000 Faces by Joseph Campbell Bill Moyer's video series, discussing The Hero's Journey with Joseph Campbell G.I. Joe (animated TV show) Leigh Bardugo (hear her First Draft episodes here and here) Nickelodeon Animation podcast featuring Michael and Brian Story by Robert McKee My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand "An Oral History of the Funniest Podcast Ever," Daily Beast article featuring the quote from Scott Aukerman Bottle Episode (what we called "box episodes") The Fly episode of Breaking Bad William James Royce The Story Grid by Shawn Coyne The Story Grid Podcast