How to Kick Ass at Kickstarter (Video)
Last month I had the good fortune to return to The Animation Workshop in Denmark to teach a week-long course in their Graphic Storytelling department. You might remember the talk I gave two years ago,...
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NB: I originally shared this post on Patreon on July 14th, 2017, just after launching the Kickstarter for 100 Demon Dialogues. I wanted to link to it in an essay I’m working on right now, but I’m also...
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Smut Peddler: Sordid Past
A few months ago I got an invite to pitch a comic for the latest installment of Smut Peddler, the wildly popular, sex-positive anthology series from Iron Circus Comics. The current volume, Sordid...
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My working theory is that the silence and the sunshine and the singing are key materials of the nest I am always building, to hold whatever thoughts, feelings, rhythms, and ideas become my poems. Tara...
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Slowly, Slowly
For many months, earlier in the Pandemic, my elementary school had a banner of this Kobayashi Issa haiku hanging outside their driveway: O snail Climb Mount Fuji, But slowly, slowly! The entire family...
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Jesse
The first funeral I ever attended wasn’t for a family member; it was for a cartoonist. Dylan Williams passed away in 2011, shortly after I’d spent a formative semester as his student in the IPRC’s...
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The Kickstarter for Tell the Turning has come and gone. It funded with joyous speed, which helped me lean into treating it as an exercise in enoughness over the course of its lifespan, but I still...
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Welcome, baby.
Hey look. It’s here. Working on Tell the Turning with Tara and Stefan over the past year has been such a gentle, eye-opening process. Historically, there’s been an element of exhaustion or...
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Context creation can operate like the creative equivalent of Universal Basic Income. I want to make sure people’s obvious and immediate needs are met so they can tap into what they already know, but...
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Serpentine
An unexpected bit of Promotion on the blog today: Serpentine is now live on Kickstarter! This collection of poems by Tara K. Shepersky features loads of full-page watercolor illustrations by me and...
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