Copying & Creativity: Five Ways To Improve Your Own Work Without Rip-Offs
Copying the work of others: the worst thing you can do? Yes, if you’re going to try and pass it off as your own. But copying to learn can be an amazing adventure and a way to raise your game to new levels.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )On writing haiku: simple isn’t easy
Writing haiku well is tough – a lot of effort for something as tiny and seemingly inconsequential as a mobile phone snap. But the perfect mobile phone snap can deliver more than the biggest oil painting. Now haiku have even crossed the final frontier into space.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )The One That Got Away
Sometimes there’s a book you really want to write – and someone else has the same idea! It happened to me with kamishibai, a Japanese street performance art with a major influence on the modern manga industry.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )The A-Kon Effect: good vibrations
Behind every convention, there’s another world – the secret world of conrunners, working their socks off to give you a good time.
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Air travel makes you sick, but publishing deadlines can knock out almost any ailment.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )The Art of Osamu Tezuka
I’ve spent the last four years getting to know one of the twentieth century’s authentic genii, riding an astonishing magic carpet of creativity that extends right across Japan’s popular culture. So why do most English speakers only know about him from a couple of kids’ cartoon shows?
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