Keep Ahead to Keep Up Last week I discussed how “life comes at you fast,” so you need to be flexible and reactive....
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Steve Stegelin’s Life Comes At You Fast
According to my Google Docs dictionary, adaptability is “the quality of being able to adjust to new...
Steve Stegelin’s Mind the Gap
This week, working on the editorial cartoon for Charleston City Paper left in my mind in the gutter. Or, more accurately, on the gutter—as in that magical break between panels in sequential art. Depending on the panels bookending the gutter, that break can...
Steve Stegelin’s A Week In the Life (and the Lessons Learned)
As I juggled an assortment of deadlines and “comicking” over the past week, I realized the diversity of what I worked on afforded some nice compare-and-contrast and lessons learned. Saturday-Sunday Having already wrapped up my usual weekly deadlines for...
Steve Stegelin’s Building a Safer Comics Community
For an uncomfortably too-close-to-home satire of the comic book industry, look no further than Evan Dorkin’s Eltingville Club. A darkly comic—and scathing—indictment on nerd culture, Dorkin used the series to comment on the worst the fandom has to offer,...
Steve Stegelin’s Perils of Editorial Cartoons
The comic book industry often goes through moments of doom and gloom, like when a tentpole Big Two publisher breaks up with the primary distributor. However, there are times when I’m reminded that cartoonists in general—regardless of whether their comics be...
Steve Stegelin’s Writer or Artist: Which is More Important?
A thread recently popped up online, asking which was more important in comics—the writer, or the artist. The root of the thread may have been the trade dress for DC Comics’ “DC Ink” imprint of graphic novels written by young adult authors like Meg Cabot,...
Steve Stegelin’s When Cartoons Are No Laughing Matter
So, just to get this out of the way, a bit of a trigger warning: This post contains some political opinion. Of course, I’m a political cartoonist, so that shouldn’t come as a big surprise. However, if you’re not interested in a political conversation, it’s...
Steve Stegelin’s Balancing Act: Juggling Multiple Projects
This week has been hectic, with multiple projects running simultaneously and new ones popping up. As I look at the work accomplished (and what’s still left to do), it seems a good opportunity to apply the recent lessons learned toward one more project—this blog...
Steve Stegelin’s Know Your Audience
In this social media landscape of Likes and Follows, it’s easy to get wrapped up in trying to figure out what posts will get the most love. Social media success can be as much due to the whims of lucky timing as it is to the science of SEO, algorithms, and your...
Steve Stegelin’s CoronaCon 2020
CoronaCon 2020: Alternatives to Comic Conventions During a Pandemic With social distancing and limitations on crowd sizes a necessity to help slow the spread of COVID-19, the 2020 comic convention season has all but evaporated. My personal regional comic book...