Tag: Steve Lieber
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Dilettante 022: Starting a New Project with a Collaborator
STEVE LIEBER’S DILETTANTE Dilettante 022: Starting a New Project with a Collaborator A well-worn truism among comics freelancers that the best part of any project is getting the green light to get started, which leads to the worst part of any project: getting started. There’s often a lot of work that precedes “page one, panel…
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Dilettante 021: Ten Ways to Add Life to a Page
STEVE LIEBER’S DILETTANTE Dilettante 021: Ten Ways to Add Life to a Page Telling stories with comics is a long haul. A painter or a songwriter can sometimes go from conception to completion in a single session, fueled by the enthusiasm that comes from a new idea. A comics story tends to take a lot…
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Dilettante 020: The Art of Self-Promotion
STEVE LIEBER’S DILETTANTE Dilettante 020: The Art of Self-Promotion There’s been a lot of chatter online the last week or so about an artist who is having trouble finding an audience for his work, and the extent to which not thinking like a businessman contributed to the problem. The conversations took place mostly on social…
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Dilettante 019: What Makes an Artist Say Yes to a Script?
STEVE LIEBER’S DILLETANTE Dilettante 019: What Makes an Artist Say Yes to a Script? What I describe here are choices made in ideal situations. The truth is that sometimes artists agree to draw a script for less than ideal reasons. They owe a writer a favor. They need to replace the transmission on their 2003…
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Dilettante 018: Make No Mistake
STEVE LIEBER’S DILETTANTE Dilettante 018: Make No Mistake Last month I published a Dilettante column on creative advice that my peers and I wish we could give to our younger selves. It was unusually well received and brought in a ton of positive feedback. I like to think that by now I’m old and wise…
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Dilettante 017: Mistakes Were Made
STEVE LIEBER’S DILETTANTE Dilettante 017: Mistakes Were Made I try to approach my career as a work in progress. I know I’m going to make any number of bad choices as I go along on a panel, a page, a project. The trick is to eventually recognize them so I don’t make them again. That’s…