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Devourer of Words 027: Should You Read the Comments?
MARC BERNARDIN’S DEVOURER OF WORDS Devourer of Words 027: Should You Read the Comments? I have memories of the Wednesday my first comic book, The Highwaymen, dropped in 2007. I wish I…
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Devourer of Words 026: So, What’s In A Name?
MARC BERNARDIN’S DEVOURER OF WORDS Devourer of Words 026: So, What’s In A Name? We’re all hoping for that moment in a script, where you build up to the introduction…
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Devourer of Words 025: How to Diversify
MARC BERNARDIN’S DEVOURER OF WORDS Devourer of Words 025: How to Diversify We seem to talk every 12 months at around this time—Black History Month—about diversity in comics. About how…
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Devourer of Words 024: Get Out
MARC BERNARDIN’S DEVOURER OF WORDS Devourer of Words 024: Get Out I have made the excuse more often than I can count: That the reason I write fiction, science fiction…
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Devourer of Words 023: Brand Exercise
MARC BERNARDIN’S DEVOURER OF WORDS Devourer of Words 023: Brand Exercise You would think that the key to being a successful comic book writer was being a good comic book…
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Devourer of Words 022: Comics Writers I’m Thankful for
MARC BERNARDIN’S DEVOURER OF WORDS Devourer of Words 022: Comics Writers I’m Thankful for We are rapidly approaching Thanksgiving, at least according to every commercial on every channel—at least the…
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Devourer of Words 021: Choosing What’s Next
MARC BERNARDIN’S DEVOURER OF WORDS Devourer of Words 021: Choosing What’s Next There comes a time for every writer when she or he is done with whatever it is they’re…
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Devourer of Words 020: When the Real World Intrudes
MARC BERNARDIN’S DEVOURER OF WORDS Devourer of Words 020: When the Real World Intrudes If you’re anything like me, when you’re writing a book, the book itself lives in a…
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Devourer of Words 019: Judge and Jury
MARC BERNARDIN’S DEVOURER OF WORDS Devourer of Words 019: Judge and Jury I have been going to comic book stores for about as long as I can remember. Good ones,…
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Devourer of Words 018: They Just Said No
MARC BERNARDIN’S DEVOURER OF WORDS Devourer of Words 018: They Just Said No If you’re a writer who doesn’t publish her or his own work—and your last name won’t guarantee…
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Devourer of Words 017: A Non-Compete Agreement
MARC BERNARDIN’S DEVOURER OF WORDS Devourer of Words 017: A Non-Compete Agreement As one can readily tell, walking the halls of any moderate-sized convention, or reading Twitter, or looking at…
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Devourer of Words 016: Revisionary Thinking
MARC BERNARDIN’S DEVOURER OF WORDS Devourer of Words 016: Revisionary Thinking It is going to happen and it is going to happen often. Fighting it won’t make it go away,…