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Storytelling needs to be the main thing, although the proper style helps. It’s like a language: If you have language, it’s a duet with the storyteller and the listener and you have certain regulations, certain words mean something, and if you use them in a proper way, you can really have your story come across. I think I learned that from Hergé; it’s not only the drawing. If you have that proper language, then comes the storytelling.

Writing a comic involves very very specific visual description. In a book, I have to suggest the visual in broad strokes so that (hopefully!) the reader’s mind does the rest of the work and brings it alive.

It’s affected my comics writing in one serious way: a page of a novel radiates more information than one page of a comic, and so after finishing GUN MACHINE comics felt very light and empty to me. It was weird.

Batmobile, Capt. Picard and more in town for extravaganza
CBC News Infographic by Jason Boychuk
CBC Montreal - Infographic - What to expect at Montreal’s Comiccon via Kate

Batmobile, Capt. Picard and more in town for extravaganza

CBC News Infographic by Jason Boychuk

CBC Montreal - Infographic - What to expect at Montreal’s Comiccon via Kate

RIP Joe Kubert, comic book artist extraordinaire
via BoingBoing’s Mark Frauenfelder

RIP Joe Kubert, comic book artist extraordinaire

via BoingBoing’s Mark Frauenfelder