The Menu is Not the Meal
Tony JamesA writer of sorts. Making comics with aliens, detectives, and lunar cowboys. Yes, the mustache is real.
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The Salad Years
“If this right now was all that there is, all the time, it would be perfect.” - Cal Hampton; Grand Theft Auto VI
Last month, I attended Terrificon in Connecticut for the second time. My first time at the show was a learning curve that I s...
A Star Noir Love Story
I found love in the last place I’d expect. Earth.
Perino’s Restaurant.
Los Angeles. 1947.
Friday. 7:43 PM.
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A Film. A Poem. A Critic.
The quality of an adaptation and its accuracy to the source material should be judged as two separate entities.
I recently saw Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, the latest adaptation of Homer’s epic poem. While I personally enjoyed the film...
Change Your Position. Not Your Swing.
Garden State Comic Fest was successful last month because of the lessons learned at Terrificon the year before.
Last year, I wrote an article Adapting to Change in Comics, where I recapped my tabling experience at Terrificon. Since then, t...
Silence Speaks Louder Than Words
Removing dialogue from half of a scene was a gamble that paid off.
Writers have a tendency to overvalue dialogue sometimes. A young writer will handcuff themselves to every word, unwilling to shorten or remove dialogue, even if it improves...
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