MARC BERNARDIN’S DEVOURER OF WORDS Devourer of Words 050: Who Has the Right to Write? When I was a teenager, my favorite comic book was The Uncanny X-Men, as written by Chris Claremont. It did all the things I wanted a comic to do: It thrilled, it chilled, it featured adolescents who saved the world but […]

MARC BERNARDIN’S DEVOURER OF WORDS Devourer of Words 049: Feedback Loop We are, all of us, working in mass media—meaning that the writing we do is meant to be shown to an audience. Even though we are always the first readers for our work, the plan is to not be the last readers. Feedback is […]

MARC BERNARDIN’S DEVOURER OF WORDS Devourer of Words 048: Comic-Con 2017 I am going to try not to make this about “me,” but I am going to fail. Just a little warning up top. This past Comic-Con International was my 15th, by my count. I first attended as a journalist, working for Entertainment Weekly. It was just […]

MARC BERNARDIN’S DEVOURER OF WORDS Devourer of Words 047: Time Enough at Last Whether we are ready or not, Comic Con International is upon us. Not that it’s a sneaky stretch on the calendar—we all know the third week of July is coming, and what that means—but a month out is as good a time […]

MARC BERNARDIN’S DEVOURER OF WORDS Devourer of Words 045: Kirby and Eisner at 100 Comic-Con will be celebrating the lives and careers of Jack Kirby and Will Eisner this year. Much has been said, on this website and elsewhere, about the contributions both of those men have made to comics—as both an artform and an […]

MARC BERNARDIN’S DEVOURER OF WORDS Devourer of Words 044: The Mailbag This time out, I asked the Internet for questions about the business and craft of comics writing. And the Internet, as it has been known to do, kicked back its share of information—some valuable, some useless. But below are the cream of the crop. […]