Thursday, February 4, 2021

WRAP IT UP in a Pretty Little Bow

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:

Gord Cummings

Cam Hayden

Jillian Dolan

Chad Colpitts

Jarret Hartnell

Kelly Porteous

Aaron Navrady

Zack Schuster


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


Jean Giraud (Moebius)


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


Tenet 


Chris Ware


Fletcher Hanks


Basil Wolverton


Michael Kupperman


Mike Mignola


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



Contributor Socials:

Nick Johnson
twitter/instagram: @illustratednick
website: nickj.ca
process blog: nicksoup.com

Jason Mehmel
twitter/instagram: @typewriterjason

Sho Uehara
website: shouehara.com
twitter: @ShoKeepsDrawing
instagram: @shouehara

For comments and episode suggestions, you can contact the pod on twitter: @penciltownpod - or via email: thepenciltownpodcast@gmail.com.

Music and editing for the podcast provided by Nick Johnson

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