by jdsmeaton | Nov 6, 2024 | Recommendations
Here’s something I’ve not done before, spotlight on a publisher. I’ve found myself with quite a few books from the catalog of Flying Eye Books. They do children’s books and graphic novels. Obviously my main interest lies in graphic novels but I even have (or our kid’s...
by jdsmeaton | Oct 16, 2024 | 3 Questions With...
3 Questions With… Ruth Chan I am a sucker for personal stories, memoirs, and coming of age stuff. So when I saw Uprooted, I was all in. It’s Ruth Chan’s story about when she was in junior high, her family moved from Canada to Hong Kong, where her parents originally...
by jdsmeaton | Oct 2, 2024 | Inspiration, Recommendations
The Wrong Right I was backing my car out of a long driveway that has a wall that runs along it. The driveway crosses a sidewalk before going into the street but the wall causes a blindspot for viewing the sidewalk. So I backed out cautiously. As I reach the end of...
by jdsmeaton | Sep 18, 2024 | 3 Questions With...
3 Questions With… Ryan Andrews I don’t know a whole lot about Ryan. Just what he has on his website. He lives in Japan and works in animation doing backgrounds for Disney. What I do know is that when his graphic novel, This Was Our Pact came out in 2019, it blew me...
by jdsmeaton | Sep 4, 2024 | Creativity, Inspiration
Time To Get Lucky Sam Parr, one of the hosts of the My First Million podcast recounted a job interview he had at Airbnb. He had made it through the preliminary interviews to the final with company founder Joe Gebbia. Joe only asked one question. “On a scale of 1 to...
