Comics Are Great! 73 – Finding Your Knitting with Kris Straub
by dubaym
Stick to your knitting. Specialize. Find your niche. Operate in your wheelhouse. And a zillion other clichés that get thrown around. It’s been accepted as common wisdom that one should find the one thing they have some talent in and pursue that to the end. And even if this is true (though we’re not saying it is), how does one even go about finding the precise knitting to which they should be sticking?
We’re fortunate to be joined this time by Kris Straub, the author behind Starslip, Chainsawsuit, Broodhollow, the Webcomics Weekly podcast, and more for a discussion on finding the proper venue for your work once you’ve tackled that tricky business of finding your voice.
And Erin Helmrich of the Ann Arbor District Library returns for another round of great book talks!
Links mentioned in this episode (thanks to Eric Klooster for collecting them!):
- Kris’s 2012 in review blog post
- The Daily Bruin
- How to Make Webcomics
- Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job
- Bardin the Superrealist
- Rich Uncle Pennybags
- Evolution of Snoopy
- Electric Light Orchestra
- Tweet Me Harder
- Ichor Falls
- F Chords
- Scott Kurtz
- Brad Guigar
- Dave Kellett
- The guy who “chose poorly” in Indiana Jones 3
- Cargo Cults
- Know Your Meme
- Voltron
- Christopher Guest
- The Returners
- the Machine of Death game
Comics and Book Recommendations:
- The Little Prince
- Glitter Kiss
- Zed: A Cosmic Tale
- The New Deadwardians
- The Starslip Collection
- Knife Thrower
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