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...
by jdsmeaton | Aug 28, 2024 | 3 Questions With...
3 Questions With… Will Perkins This is part two with the creators of the Goblin series, writer Eric Grissom and artist Will Perkins. I first came across their work when they did a book launch at Kids Comics Unite for the first Goblin book. But it was actually on...
by jdsmeaton | Aug 21, 2024 | 3 Questions With..., Writing
3 Questions WIth… Eric Grissom This is part one with the creators of the Goblin series, writer Eric Grissom and artist Will Perkins. I first came across their work when they did a book launch at Kids Comics Unite for the first Goblin book. But it was actually on...
by jdsmeaton | Aug 7, 2024 | Creativity, Recommendations
Everything you want is on the other side of fear. That’s an adage that’s been bopping around my head recently. I’m not sure fear is in the way of everything. I often want cookies and fear rarely holds me back from those. But I get the truth of that statement. One of...
by jdsmeaton | Jul 17, 2024 | 3 Questions With...
Bethanie Murguia I met Bethanie a couple years ago at Kid Comics Unite where we were in a writer’s group together. Bethanie was a seasoned children’s book author but was working on her first graphic novel. It was about a little girl and the bond she has with her dog....
by jdsmeaton | Jul 3, 2024 | Creativity, Storytelling
Hey, That Was My Idea There is this interesting phenomenon called simultaneous invention. This is when the same idea shows up in different places independently or when a discovery is made simultaneously by multiple scientists or inventors. This happens in comedy too...
by jdsmeaton | Jun 19, 2024 | 3 Questions With...
Pedro Martin I came across Pedro Martin last year when his graphic novel Mexikid burst onto the scene. It’s the story of when his very large family all drove down from central California to Mexico to bring his grandfather back to live with them. It is such a...
