by Tom Batiuk | Apr 5, 2023 | Komix Thoughts
Let’s step back a minute to last Sunday’s Crankshaft so I can pull back the curtain for you just a bit. Some months back I was visiting our local comics emporium when I noticed what appeared to be a child’s drawing of Negative Man posted on the wall...
by tombatiuk | Mar 26, 2021 | Komix Thoughts
Another way that a splash page can front a story is by dropping the reader into the middle of the story, or in medias res, if you want to get all schooly about it. In this case, there’s no intro or expository dialog, you’re simply plopped right in the...
by tombatiuk | Mar 17, 2021 | Komix Thoughts
So I showed up on a rainy March afternoon at the church that stands-in for St. Spires and spent about an hour trying to capture all of the scenes that I was seeing in my head for the story, make that stories, that I was already writing. Having a full understanding of...
by tombatiuk | Mar 16, 2021 | Komix Thoughts
A little over a year ago at my last in-person book signing during the Ohio Music Educators Conference, a retired band director told me that he had a new gig playing organ for a church choir. For whatever reason, I was totally charmed by that idea and decided that it...
by tombatiuk | Mar 9, 2021 | Komix Thoughts
The concept behind Splish Splash is exactly what I do with Cover Me except different. Where the job of covers is to get you to pick up a book and part with some coin, splash pages have a similar but slightly different job. They’re your doorway into the story....
