Making long-form webcomics is like
Honestly, this is true of most stories…
Hell, this is true of most THINGS!
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The Comicsmithy Bullpen
Random stuff from Jon Gorga, comics writer, commentor at CBR.com, ScreenRant.com, BleedingCool.com, WhereToStartReading.com, & award-nominated editor at Black Mask. He/Him. jonathangorga@yahoo.com
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2023-10-26
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2023-10-20
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2023-10-13
There are few things as amazing as listening to @deanhaspiel, Ann Nocenti, & others talk about mature #comics here tonight at New York Comic Con!
#NYCC2023
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2023-09-25
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2023-09-20
Another great-looking new fantasy comic on Kickstarter!
Let’s get this badass-looking story some support!
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2023-09-18
bucketofcreamcheese-deactivated asked:
Hello Mr. Gaiman! I’m sorry if this is a random question. But you’ve always been such an inspiration for me. I’ve always loved writing stories and thinking of plots and characters and your writing has influenced so much of my ideas. But I’m nervous. A lot of people like family members and even some friends say that my writing is good but it won’t get me anywhere, I’ll be better off studying something else and maybe do writing on the side if I’m lucky. But it’s my whole passion. My one wish is to be able to tell people the stories in my head. But I’m scared. What if they’re right and I’ll be better off in a different route? I don’t know which path to take. The future is so uncertain. Do you have any advice for an aspiring writer? Thank you 🩷
Keep writing. Keep doing other things too. Everything you learn and experience will be useful as a writer.
Here’s hoping…
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2023-09-15
“If there was a fire in that building over there, and me and twenty other people are on the top floor, I’d get out and they wouldn’t. I only got one leg, but it’s a god damn good sexy leg I’ll tell you that. It’s a sexy ass fucking leg. It’s sexy. It’s sexy as fuck. I’m telling you the truth. This shit is god damn sexy. I don’t have to explain it. It explains itself. Tell him why you’re sexy, leg.”
Incredible. When I hear things like this on the street, I think, ‘THIS is why I never want to leave NYC’.
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2023-09-14
As I get older, I’ve begun to fear that the number of people actually listening is much lower than I thought and the number of people merely waiting for their turn to speak is much higher than I thought.
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2023-09-11
ALTMy cartoon for this week’s Guardian Books.
p.s. latest book Is REVENGE OF THE LIBRARIANS: www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2
Tough choices, indeed…
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2023-09-07
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Love how this somehow feels like it sums up my life…
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2023-09-01
In 1990, the high school dropout rate for Dolly Parton’s hometown of Sevierville Tennessee was at 34% (Research shows that most kids make up their minds in fifth/sixth grade not to graduate). That year, all fifth and sixth graders from Sevierville were invited by Parton to attend an assembly at Dollywood. They were asked to pick a buddy, and if both students completed high school, Dolly Parton would personally hand them each a $500 check on their graduation day. As a result, the dropout rate for those classes fell to 6%, and has generally retained that average to this day.
Shortly after the success of The Buddy Program, Parton learned in dealing with teachers from the school district that problems in education often begin during first grade when kids are at different developmental levels. That year The Dollywood Foundation paid the salaries for additional teachers assistants in every first grade class for the next 2 years, under the agreement that if the program worked, the school system would effectively adopt and fund the program after the trial period.
During the same period, Parton founded the Imagination Library in 1995: The idea being that children from her rural hometown and low-income families often start school at a disadvantage and as a result, will be unfairly compared to their peers for the rest of their lives, effectively encouraging them not to pursue higher education. The objective of the Imagination library was that every child in Sevier County would receive one book, every month, mailed and addressed to the child, from the day they were born until the day they started kindergarten, 100% free of charge. What began as a hometown initiative now serves children in all 50 states, Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom, mailing thousands of free books to children around the world monthly.
On March 1, 2018 Parton donated her 100 millionth book at the Library of Congress: a copy of “Coat of Many Colors” dedicated to her father, who never learned to read or write.
Fantastic. Amazing that she was a punchline for so long…. What an awesome person.
