Author: Marc Bernardin
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Le dévoreur de mots 027 : Faut-il lire les commentaires ?
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 could say those memories are fond; they are mixed, at best. I remember staying up for most of that Wednesday night, and then Thursday night,…
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Le dévoreur de mots 026 : Qu'est-ce qu'un nom ?
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 of a character and you want it to have the same immortal cool as Ian Fleming’s introduction of 007: “The name is Bond, James Bond.”…
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Dévoreur de mots 025 : Comment se diversifier ?
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 all too often the books that we read, and the people who create them, don’t betray the plurality of the world at large. This is…
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Le dévoreur de mots 024 : Sortez
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 at that, is because I prefer making stuff up to researching it. Never mind the fact that making up a world that feels real requires…
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Le dévoreur de mots 023 : Exercice de marque
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 writer. I mean, it certainly doesn’t hurt: Talent will always come to your aid when you need it to, but there are incredibly talented people…
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Le dévoreur de mots 022 : Les auteurs de bandes dessinées que je remercie
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 commercials that aren’t already ramming Christmas down our collective throat. And since it’s time for recognizing the things we’re thankful for, I figured this was…