by Tom Batiuk | May 6, 2026 | Komix Thoughts
Annnnnd, back to the discussion of the process. Part of the reason the commonly accepted rules don’t work too well for me (and I will readily admit that this is probably endemic to the very art of comic strip writing itself) is that I began gravitating towards a...
by Tom Batiuk | May 3, 2026 | Komix Thoughts
by Tom Batiuk | May 1, 2026 | Komix Thoughts
Another and better example of an open ending came at the end of my collection The Last Leaf. When I first presented the book about the story of Les’s life after Lisa to my publisher, my pitch had ended with the strip shown here where a remarried Les and his wife...
by Tom Batiuk | Apr 26, 2026 | Komix Thoughts
by Tom Batiuk | Apr 25, 2026 | Komix Thoughts
Recently, Michael Gilbert in his Mr. Monster’s Comic Crypt in Alter Ego has been discussing logos and lettering, two things that can make or break a splash page. He printed a Mr. Monster splash page that I’d forgotten about that checks all the boxes of the...
