Mike Mignola, the “Jack Kirby” of occult based comics? No way, he’s in a league of his own. Check it out.
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When it comes to being a creator, it’s important to establish a brand. Everything a creator does highlights their strengths, weaknesses, and how they present their beliefs. Does a character need more development? Is the creator more notable for success or nitpicks? Where does the creator get their influences? Are they more suited to one genre or character over another? Come and find out.
Gail Simone: Reinventing the Status Quo
Gail Simone, the creator who takes redefinition to a whole new level. Look where this writer began to her position as a creative director.
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Satoshi Mizukami: Challenging the Perspective
For Satoshi Mizukami, manga isn’t just about high stakes battles; but personal journeys. Whether it is character driven or changing creative gears.
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Jason: Neutrality Embraces Everyone’s Emotions
Look out it’s Jason, oh wait he’s not Voorhees, he’s just a comic artist who makes faces where you put masks on his characters.
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Matt Kindt: The Mindbending Wonders
For Matt Kindt, surrealism isn’t just showing weird pictures to express details, but trying to find where reality and fantasy collide.
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Masamune Shirow: How To See Philosophies Beneath the Glamour
Masamune Shirow, man did he ever know how to craft steel. Cyborgs, tanks, and supercomputers; why sci-fi trope did he not touch?
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Chelsea Cain: Controversy Can be a Good Thing
Chelsea Cain, novelist, comic writer, controversy magnet. How does a creator accurate portray a young woman’s struggles and bounce back from a scandal?
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Brian Michael Bendis: Why Reinvention Is Just Selling Out
Comic publishers, please listen. Brian Michael Bendis’ strengths are with crime drama, displaying actions, and writing teenagers. Do not make his practices of killing off characters you don’t like, just adding new characters out of nowhere without establishing them, and radically changing characters for drama as regular things.
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Luna Brothers’ Universe of Small Connections
Could the Luna Brothers have been building a shared Mythos? Let’s find out.
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