I love illustrating for other writers because I am given stories I never would have thought of, and my work as an illustrator is always in support of the story.
The genres change but all of my stories feature ordinary people thrown into frightening, life-altering situations.
Lettering should be invisible. You shouldn't notice it, unless it is a determined piece of storytelling in graphic design. Whether handmade or digital, the lettering should be easy on the eye and well placed. It should help tell the story and do nothing to get in the way of it.
You can't just have a fight scene. In my opinion, it has to be a character moment or story moment.
The way we as a world consume stories - and sometimes people - is a phenomenon that we're seeing much more of now.
If the subject is no longer living, the immediate question is do you have enough first-person material to really get that story across. You'd like to avoid it just being other people's memories and interpretations.
I've never had any interest in retelling stories from my youth.
I like things that are weirdly imaginative and couldn't be real, but I also like stories that are recognizable and relatable.
People just want good stories.
Fantasy/science-fiction stories have been around almost as long as each genre, but every hybrid now lives in the shadow of 'Star Wars.'
If a good editor will let me tell my story with the right artist, I'm happy.
I don't start a story until I know where it's going to end.
I'm just grateful to finally be telling a story with all females at the lead.
I wrote my first story in second grade, and was trying novel-length by sixth.
My dad and mom were, they would take what were popular hits, and lip-sync to them with puppets and do a ridiculous story.
Julio's Day is a story of one man's life, but it's a great more than that as well. It's the story of the life of a century, also told as if a day. Beginning with Julio's birth in 1900 and ending with his death in 2000, the graphic novel touches on most of the major events that shaped the 20th century.
I'm not tied to budgets. I'm tied to the story that I want to tell, and how much it's going to cost is up to whatever the economic situation of the studio is.
Crude at first [the short story] received a literary polish in the press, but its dominant quality remained. It was concise and condense, yet suggestive. It was delightfully extravagant - or a miracle of understatement
Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story.
Hollywood has more than its share of harsh and crewel stories. In fact, it's probably more the norm than the exception.
Share with people who have earned the right to hear your story.
Shame derives its power from being unspeakable...If we speak shame, it begins to wither. Just the way exposure to light was deadly for the gremlins, language and story bring light to shame and destroy it.
Tell your story with your whole heart.
Courage, the original definition of courage, when it first came into the English language -- it's from the Latin word "cor," meaning "heart" - and the original definition was to tell the story of who you are with your whole heart.
Courage - To tell the story of who you are with your whole heart.
