While we chip away at the second season of PENCILTOWN, we thought it would be fun to wrap up our first season by rifling through our mailbag, sharing a few storytelling lessons we learned over the past year, and most importantly, by opening up the floor to hear from fellow artists in the comic community, in an episode segment we like to call Pencil-TOWN HALL!
Tune in to hear sage wisdom on comic storytelling, the production process, and ways to relieve the pressure we sometimes place on ourselves when making work. We put a call out to some of our favourite creators in the indie comic scene in Alberta and the enthusiastic response had us brimming with gratitude. There's so much here to teach and inspire and we thank our contributors oh-so-much for making this such a special episode!
The creators featured on the episode are:
Creators and Works Mentioned:
C.H.A.N.G.E. Agents by James Davidge, Bryan Sing and Nick Johnson
The Comics of Chris Ware: Drawing is a Way of Thinking by David M. Ball
Bone by Jeff Smith
Asterios Polyp by David Mazzuchelli
Hard Boiled by Frank Miller and Geoff Darrow
Shaolin Cowboy by Geoff Darrow
Dear Scarlet by Teresa Wong
Entropy by Aaron Costain
Westworld - TV series
Ghost in the Shell by Mamoru Oshii and Masamune Shirow
How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way
Bot-9 by Derek Laufman
She-Ra and the Princess of Power
Guts by Raina Telgemeier
The Foundation Series by Isaac Asimov
Music and editing for the podcast provided by Nick Johnson
