by Tom Batiuk | May 27, 2026 | Komix Thoughts
Emboldened by my success, when that story arc ended, I didn’t want to shutter the small comic book “company” that I had become, so I came up with a way to continue the comic book story thread that would deepen my exploration of bygone days, and allow me to come up...
by Tom Batiuk | May 20, 2026 | Komix Thoughts
Something I find myself doing now is following emotional threads. I’ll often buy a book thinking it’s something that I’d like to read, or that could be useful, and it will stay stashed in the bookcase until suddenly the moment is right and I get a really strong urge...
by Tom Batiuk | May 13, 2026 | Komix Thoughts
Another thing I find myself doing now is following emotional threads. I’ll often buy a book thinking it’s something that I’d like to read, or that could be useful, and it will stay stashed in the bookcase until suddenly the moment is right and I get a really strong...
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 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...
