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BEFORE IT WAS A COMIC…
...Lighter Than My Shadow was going to be a prose book. I'd always enjoyed illustration, and indeed always wanted to be an illustrator. But I was one of those people who thought that books with...
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THE BOX
In working on Lighter Than My Shadow as a college project, I knew I couldn’t tackle the whole thing. Instead I picked a few moments from different stages of the story to work up into comics, giving an...
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AVOIDANCE
For a long time, I dabbled. Even after signing the contract and everything becoming real and official, I think there was a level of denial. The project still felt overwhelmingly big, the deadline...
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FEARS
This post is the first in a week-long series about a writing retreat I took in January 2010, to work on the first full draft of Lighter Than My Shadow. I was afraid of being alone with all of my...
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RECONNECTING
This post is the second in a series about a writing retreat I took in 2010. Please click here if you'd like to read from the beginning. Despite my fears, what I found at the start of my retreat was...
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SITTING WITH IT
This post is the fourth in a series about a writing retreat I took in 2010. Please click here if you'd like to read from the beginning. What happened during those three weeks tested my stability in...
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FIRST DRAFT
This post is the last in a series about a writing retreat I took in 2010. Please click here if you'd like to read from the beginning. At the end of three very challenging weeks, after a lot of...
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IT’S REAL!
This is me, about 30 seconds after ferociously ripping open the parcel containing the very first finished copy of Lighter Than My Shadow. It smells really good.
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THE WALL CHART
With the time for faffing drafting and redrafting over, I had to find a way not to feel overwhelmed by the sheer volume of drawing ahead of me. I used a very simple formula: divide the number of pages...
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KEEPING TALKING
It has been quite a month! I wrote on my website recently about how strange it is that Lighter Than My Shadow is now finished and 'out there'. After working on it in virtual isolation for so long, it...
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