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Comics are Dead
Comics Are Dead! I've heard that for years. It isn't true, let me tell you. Who am I? Bill Nichols, comics writer,...
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...
Steve Stegelin’s Happy Accidents: Drawing as Improvisation
A couple of posts back, I shared my process behind a pinup illustration for a #SupportYourLCS social media campaign, and I commented how it reminded me that drawing is like excavation. I was again reminded of that as I continued the revival of my old indie...
Steve Stegelin’s Cartoonist in Quarantine
Cartoonist in Quarantine: Tips to Surviving the Stay-At-Home Order with Your Sanity In Tact As a ShoutFyre member, you’re likely an aspiring or professional comic creator, but odds are you also have a day job that actually pays the bills. Or had, at least, before...
Steve Stegelin’s #SupportYourLCS: The Anatomy of a Pin-Up
Steve Stegelin's #SupportYourLCS: The Anatomy of a Pin-up A silver lining during this time of pandemic has been seeing communities rise up to aid those most impacted by the economic shutdown and quarantine. Among those communities deeply impacted? Our local comic...
Sketchy Conversations: An Interview with Butch Mapa
Sketchy Conversations: An Interview with Butch Mapa There’s nothing like a pandemic to make the world seem small. In this uncertain time, I started checking in with various friends and creative collaborators around the globe. One of the furthest away (with a literal...
Bill Nichols Comic Mentor What Do I Need To Learn Today?
Sometimes I will begin my day with that thought. You may think there’s nothing new to learn after a while but you might be surprised to find something you hadn’t thought of or counted to worm its way into your day. It might be something about an idea you’ve had, some...
Bill Nichols Comic Mentor Take Five Mintues
If you’re finding it difficult to make any headway creatively today, try this: Take five minutes to do something anything creative, whether it’s a drawing a quick sketch or writing a short paragraph, or anything that puts something down on the page or screen. If you...
Bill Nichols Comic Mentor Don’t Just Accept The Good Critiques
It’s an easy thing to hear only the good things about the latest pages, in art or prose, we’ve done. It could be from family or friends or even other creators, but with enough of that, we can start to believe in just those and lose a connection to the things we still...
Steve Stegelin’s Keeping That Comic Creator Passion Alive
Keeping That Comic Creator Passion Alive Let’s face it, creating comics is a passion project. Regardless of whether you’re a writer, an artist, or a do-it-all creator, comic creation is a time-consuming task with its fair share of frustrations. You can put a lot of...