All Episodes
Making Comics — 307 episodes
Episode 304: Non-linear Storytelling
Episode 303: Kickstarter setup and Page Outlines
Episode 302: The Heavy Work Pages
Episode 301: What it Takes to be a Working Comics Pro
Episode 300: Direct Feedback and a Retreat Recap
Episode 299: Creating when you can (plus SDCC)
Episosde 298: Figuring out your Scenes
Episode 297: Distribution and Crowdfunding
Episode 296: Prepping for SDCC
Episode 295: The Value of Small Changes
Episode 294: Expanding on a Script Outline
Episode 293: Getting unstuck
Episode 292: Those halts in Story Momentum
Episode 291: Your instincts on Structure (with Scott Serkland)
Episode 290: Conventions + Fine-tuning Colors
Episode 289: Making Drawings Unnatural
Episode 288: Refining your Pitch
Episode 287: Changing styles and Productivity
Episode 286: Pacing and Beginnings
Episode 285: From Idea to Cover
Episode 284: The Many Faces of Editing
Episode 283: The "Big" Part of Writing
Episode 282: Pixar's rules for Storytelling (Part Three)
Episode 281: Pixar's rules for Storytelling (Part Two)
Episode 280: Pixar's rules for Storytelling (Part One)
Episode 279: When Coloring reveals Art issues
Episode 278: Staying productive on Convention weekends
Episode 277: A Story's Gravity
Episode 276: One-Shot Stories (with Katelyn Windels)
Episode 275: The extra parts of a page
Episode 274: Evaluating your Pages
Episode 273: Listener Feedback
Episode 272: The Story Process (with Gary Hodges)
Episode 271: Fighting "Scene Overanalysis"
Episode 270: Weak Story Spots
Episode 269: Goals for 2026
Episode 268: Year End Part two
Episode 267: Year End Favorites
Episode 266: The Holiday Episode
Episode 265: Revisiting Talking Heads
Episode 264: Style and Making Yours
Episode 263: Finishing your First Comic
Episode 262: What to think about while Drawing
Episode 261: What to think about while Writing and Scripting
Episode 260: The Five Year Episode!
Episode 259: The Right amount of Character Work
Episode 258: World-building
Episode 257: The Idea and Story Structure
Episode 256: Reworking Story Pages
Episode 255: Creating great Settings
Episode 254: The Creative part of Promotion
Episode 253: Your Project's Buildup
Episode 252: Adding New Skills
Episode 251: Themes in your work (with Cory Kerr)
Episode 250: Endings
Episode 249: Spotting story flaws
Episode 248: The Value of a Creative Retreat
Episode 247: Lettering tips
Episode 246: Thinking Differently
Episode 245: Staying in Love with a Long-term Project
Episode 244: Tension in your story
Episode 243: Artist's Block
Episode 242: Editing passes
Episode 241: Starting a Comic (with Scott Serkland)
Episode 240: Exhibit Hall Energy
Episode 239: Finishing Stories
Episode 238: Project Changes, Project schedules
Episode 237: Fixing Story Problems
Episode 236: Mega Story arcs
Episode 235: When Projects change in Mid-stream
Episode 234: Stops in the Process
Episode 233: Capturing the Essence in Art
Episode 232: Music, "music", and Improvisation (with Jim Lujan)
Episode 231: Creation and Commerce
Episode 230: Convention Do's and Don'ts
Episode 229: Craft versus Promotion
Episode 228: Found Footage
Episode 227: Changing POV
Episode 226: Choosing More Panels
Episode 225: Story Structure (with Gary Hodges)
Episode 224: Finding your Story's Format
Episode 223: The Hand-Drawn Element
Episode 222: Your Spot on the Learning Curve
Episode 221: The Final Say on a Comic
Episode 220: Researching Craft
Episode 219: Macro Story Structures
Episode 218: Setting Goals
Episode 217: Story and Vision (with Art Ebuen)
Episode 216: Flashbacks
Episode 215: Year End Special!
Episode 214: Naughty, Nice, and the Holiday Extravaganza
Episode 213: Workshopping and Being Workshopped
Episode 212: Art Vibes and Story Types
Episode 211: The Point of Telling
Episode 210: The Creative Zone
Episode 209: Little ways to Level up your story
Episode 208: Figuring out Structure
Episode 207: Returning to your Work
Episode 206: Voyage and Return stories
Episode 205: The Rebirth Story Type
Episode 204: The Author Afterword
Episode 203: A Career in Comics (with Ray-Anthony Height)
Episode 202: Getting Plot Ideas
Episode 201: Fandom then vs Now
Episode 200: The Pressure you Create
Episode 199: Formative Ideas
Episode 198: Cheesy Scenes (on Purpose)
Episode 197: Making Dialogue Better
Episode 196: Creating a story From Scratch
Episode 195: Craft Experimentation
Episode 194: Comic Con Recap
Episode 193: Fusing Energy with Story
Episode 192: Notes on rewriting
Episode 191: Scripting Action
Episode 190: Marvel method
Episode 189: Finding Your Story
Episode 188: Booth Setup
Episode 187: Working without distractions
Episode 186: Daniel Hillyard
Episode 185: Industry episode Feedback
Episode 184: Unconscious Influences
Episode 183: When to offload Work
Episode 182: The Comic Process (with Rory Smith)
Episode 181: No Lazy Panels
Episode 180: The Industry
Episode 179: Innovation
Episode 178: Wondercon Recap
Episode 177: Creating Immersive Environments
Episode 176: Adapting Prose into Comics
Episode 175: Creating Beyond Comics with Scott Serkland
Episode 174: Undertelling
Episode 173: Other People's Properties
Episode 172: Listener Mail
Episode 171: Giving Feedback
Episode 170: Nuances of Character
Episode 169: Comic Book Hacks
Episode 168: The Trappings of Genre
Episode 167: Doug Wagner on Writing Comics
Episode 166: Leveling Up
Episode 165: 2024 Goals
Episode 164: Change the Style
Episode 163: Year-End Favorites
Episode 162: The Holiday Episode!
Episode 161: Strengthening Your Dialogue
Episode 160: Back Matter and Being Resourceful
Episode 156: A Speed vs Quality Question
Episode 159: Writer's Block
Episode 158: Making your art Cinematic
Episode 157: Death and Taxes and Comics
Episode 155: Knowing When you're Done
Episode 154: Taking your story where you want it to go
Episode 153: Pitching to Publishers
Episode 152: Planning for Your Story's Success
Episode 151: Bringing your Story Forward
Episode 150: Creating Complex Characters
Episode 149: Story time versus Elapsed time
Episode 148: How to Approach Action in Your Comics
Episode 147: Where Research Ends and Story Begins
Episode 146: Pop Culture References in your book
Episode 145: New characters and Script notes
Episode 144: Chimpanzee Science Fiction at the Carnival
Episode 143: Handling Rejection
Episode 142: San Diego Comic Con recap
Episode 141: Re-evaluating your Creative Goals
Episode 140: Removing (Creative) limitations
Episode 139: Copyright
Episode 138: Indie Comics Workshop
Episode 137: Extending a story
Episode 136: Advancing your Craft (with Dave Law)
Episode 135: Leaning into Conflict
Episode 134: The completed comic (with Gary Hodges)
Episode 133: Making Edits Seamless
Episode 132: The Character Work
Episode 131: Choosing Simplicity
Episode 130: Trusting your Vision
Episode 129: Finding the Right Story to Tell
Episode 128: Making the wrong ideas right
Episode 127: Process and Influences with Andy Belanger
Episode 126: No Small Characters
Episode 125: Avoiding Lazy Storytelling
Episode 124: Self-Publish or Work with a Publisher?
Episode 123: Creating What you Want
Episode 122: What makes a cover a cover
Episode 121: Working with Editor notes
Episode 120: Creative Retreat and Accountability check-in
Episode 119: Overshowing and Overtelling
Episode 118: Endings (and Getting them Right)
Episode 117: Letting Your Work Air Out
Episode 116: Variation and Sound Effects
Episode 115: Setting Your 2023 Goals
Episode 114: Remembering the money part of comics
Episode 113: Choosing the Right Parts of the Story
Episode 112: Tackling Your Workload and Naming
Episode 111: Magic Systems
Episode 110: Favorites of 2022
Episode 109: The Holiday Special!
Episode 108: The Other Rule of Thirds
Episode 107: Using Color to Make an Impact
Episode 106: Understanding Characters Different from You
Episode 105: Comic Convention 101
Episode 104: Your comic's done... now what?
Episode 103: Creating from Life Experiences
Episode 102: Story planning and Accounting for your time
Episode 101: Making every word (and line) count
Episode 100: Century mark mega-pod!
Episode 99: Backgrounds
Episode 98: Strike first, strike hard... with your comic
Episode 97: Dynamic Poses
Episode 96: Submitting to Publishers
Episode 95: Writing tips from the Pros
Episode 94: Dialogue
Episode 93: Anatomy
Episode 92: When Expert Feedback collides
Episode 91: Building out your characters
Episode 90: From San Diego to Scotland
Episode 89: Endings and How Extra art can pay off
Episode 88: Guidelines for Drawing a Comic page (Part 2)
Episode 87: Guidelines for Drawing a Comic page (Part 1)
Episode 86: What is your comic about?
Episode 85: From Other Media to Comics (with Tim Radecki)
Episode 84: Basic Visual Concepts
Episode 83: Three Components of Comic Writing
Episode 82: Balancing Time and Being Original
Episode 81: Drawing Pages (with Gary Hodges)
Episode 80: The hardest part of making comics (part 5)
Episode 79: The hardest part of making comics (part 4)
Episode 78: The hardest part of making comics (part 3)
Episode 77: The hardest part of making comics (part 2)
Bonus Episode: Bringin' ALL the Bulls**t
Episode 76: Fight Comics (with Aubrey Sitterson)
Episode 75: The hardest part of making comics (part 1)
Episode 74: Branding
Episode 73: Balance (for art and writing)
Episode 72: Mailbag!
Episode 71: Editing and over-editing
Episode 70: The rough days
Episode 69: That dollop of not giving a s**t
Episode 68: The toughest things to draw
Episode 67: Three-act Structure
Episode 66: Clarity
Episode 65: Self-evaluation
Episode 64: Inspiration, and making sure it doesn't overtake
Episode 63: Public Domain Characters
Episode 62: Conflict
Episode 61: The Moment of Impact
Episode 60: Advance Covers and a New Company
Episode 59: Convention recap and Story Planning
Episode 58: The Favorites of 2021
Episode 57: The Holiday Shindig!
Episode 56: Trademark and Copyright
Episode 55: Setting the Scene
Episode 54: Panels and Panel Quality
Episode 53: Character (with Gary Hodges)
Episode 52: Fighting your Inner Perfectionist
Episode 51: The Fine Line Between Reference and Theft
Episode 50: Setting and World-building
Episode 49: Talking Heads pages
Episode 48: Styles and Artist-Writer relationships with Keithan Jones
Episode 47: Drawtober and PDF Prep
Episode 46: A comic's cover
Episode 45: Lettering
Episode 44: Inking and Coloring
Episode 43: Pencils and Thumbnails
Episode 42: The Idea Stage and Scripting
Episode 41: Table selling and Staying Productive
Episode 40: Working through blocks and Tutorials
Episode 39: Using Feedback and Show prep
Episode 38: Sources of Inspiration
Episode 37: Finding the fun in boring pages
Episode 36: Getting your comic out there
Episode 35: Commissions and Finding a Comic Printer
Episode 34: Character consistency and Comic recommendations
Episode 33: Project hiccups you don't expect
Episode 32: To Slab or not slab? and creative things to avoid
Episode 31: 'Write what you know' and Revising for master editions
Episode 30: Verifying your artwork and Sifting through critiques
Episode 29: 'The Rules' and why they matter... or don't
Episode 28: Copyrights and Creator Rights with Terry Mayo
Episode 27: Accountability and Comic Rights
Episode 26: Project Planning and Managing Feedback
Episode 25: Indie creator fears and Manageable daily goals
Episode 24: Staying productive when your schedule fights you
Episode 23: Big-picture thinking and a Panel a Day
Episode 22: Writing the 2nd Shift and Three-Act Structure
Episode 21: Comic advice to your Past Self
BONUS EPISODE: Godzilla versus Kong (and the Monsterverse)
Episode 20: Balancing your influences, Cliches and Dialogue Tags
Episode 19 - Trip recaps and getting comics
Episode 18 - Base influences and accent influences
Episode 17: Lead times and Writing as problem-solving
Episode 16: Feedback and Early Influences
Episode 15 - Collaboration and Preparation
Episode 14 - A Very Special Episode
Episode 13 - Adages and Pop Culture
Episode 12 - Script, Layouts and Process with Gary Hodges
Episode 11 - References and Kickstarter preparation
Episode 10 - Kickstarter Tips
Episode 9 - Creating and Your best possible performance
Episode 8 - Managing Projects and Comics We Like
Episode 7 - Midstream changes and saving your work
Episode 6 - Dialogue and Writing Resources
Episode 5 - Managing Your Projects (and Trilogies)
Episode 4 - Learning Lettering (and Outsourcing Lettering)
Episode 3 - Logistics and Lettering
Episode 2 - October is for Artists, November is for Writers
Episode 1 - On Revisions and Delivering Kickstarters
Episode 0 - Origin Story