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Amulet Nominated for Eisner Award - Amulet Book One: The Stonekeeper is nominated for an Eisner Award!

CBC Nominates Amulet - Amulet Book One: The Stonekeeper is nominated for a Children's Choice Book Award in which nearly 15,000 kids cast their votes for their favorite books of the year.

Best Books for Young Adults 2009 - Amulet Book One: The Stonekeeper makes the list!

Will Smith and Akiva Goldsman option Amulet movie - The film will be based on the story of the first two books. Screenwriters have been hired, but the film has yet to be greenlit. I hope it comes together!

Ain't It Cool News reviews Daisy Kutter - "It’s just great when I come across a book that is a perfect representation of sequential art. When I read a graphic novel/comic book that is the pinnacle of characterization, storytelling and art I just giggle with glee. It makes me so happy to come across a book that exemplifies the best in its class and make no mistake about it DAISY KUTTER: THE LAST TRAIN is one of the best comics I’ve ever read. Period." Click to read the full review.

Best Books for Young Adults 2006 - Daisy Kutter - The Last Train is listed as one of the "Best Books for Young Adults" by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) and the American Library Association (ALA).

25 People in Webcomics - Comixpedia cites me as one of the 25 people of webcomics for 2005.

Best Webcomics of 2005 - The Webcomics Examiner makes a list of their favorite online comics. Copper, along with the comics of a whole slew of my friends, made it on the list this year.

Comic Belief - Another catchy article title. This is a scan of a recent article in the Pasadena Star News. Here's an accompanying cover image.

Scholastic Snares a Viper - The title of this article is pretty hilarious. It talks a little about my next graphic novel series. This article is from Publisher's Weekly.

Copper in the New York Times - Copper is featured in an article on webcomics.

Copper on G4TV - Copper is featured on Attack of the Show.

DK review at Silver Bullet Comic Books - "Daisy Kutter: The Last Train reaffirmed my faith in comic book story-telling, and I can’t wait to read it again." - Keith Dallas

DK review at Diamond's Scoop - "We had managed to overlook Daisy Kutter when it first came out in mini-series form, but no such mistake this time."

DK review at The Fourth Rail - "Mix equal parts George Lucas, Miyazaki and Sergio Leone and you've got some idea what to expect from Daisy Kutter, the western/sci-fi adventure by Kazu Kibuishi." - Randy Lander

 

 



Simplify and Amplify
February 17, 2007 - Saturday

Production continues on Amulet at a brisk pace. I've been producing between six to ten pages of pencils or inks a day, staying up till 6 or 7 in the morning. Still redrafting material to clear up backstory information and to make it read better overall, and this is what takes the most time. My current mantra is "simplify and amplify". I'm aiming for the simplest way to get the story information across while heightening the emotions as much as possible.

One thing I didn't realize is how difficult fantasy world-building could be. In Daisy Kutter, I just let the fantasy setting sit in the background, the ways of the world in which Daisy and Tom lived being secondary to the emotional conflicts. Now, with a comic that is about much more than just the emotional conflicts of the characters, I'm finding the world-building to be quite a challenge. When working with child protagonists it's very difficult to imbue them with emotional weight and baggage, since they're at a stage of their lives where they are still observing and making their earliest decisions rather than living with the weight of their past. This makes the world they travel through all the more important, itself becoming a major character in the play.

Being a writer that hates exposition, I've been having a difficult time getting the world-building information in there without compromising the natural flow of the story. I'm not sure I'm doing the best job of it, but this has been a very good experience that I'll take with me onto Book Two, which will hopefully be a little less laborious on the story front.

In other news, I picked up the new Shazam: Monster Society of Evil comic by Jeff Smith (with colors by Steve Hamaker). It's just a great, fun all-ages comic book in the vein of old-fashioned serialized adventures. And the artwork is stunningly beautiful. Steve's colors do a fantastic job of complementing the storytelling and it makes re-reading the comic a joy. Speaking of Jeff Smith, he also designed the new Pogo collection coming out through Fantagraphics Books. I've been waiting for this for years!



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