STEVE LIEBER’S DILETTANTE Dilettante 039: A Marathon Not a Sprint A couple of weeks ago, novelist Mettie Ivie Harrison wrote a short essay on her Tumblr account about writing emotions. She was writing about prose, but much of what she wrote applies to comics as well. And there was this paragraph, which stood out for me. “ […]

STEVE LIEBER’S DILETTANTE Dilettante 038: Paying It Forward I’m lucky. My comics career is in a great place right now. My studio is prospering. I’ve found a good workflow that takes advantage of all the wonderful technology available today, and my current project, The Fix, is doing well both critically and on the sales charts. I feel […]

STEVE LIEBER’S DILETTANTE Dilettante 037: Appreciating Jaime Hernandez I’ve written before about Jaime Hernandez. About a year ago I noted: “… his razor sharp eye for human behavior, his wit, his restraint, and his ability to use traditional comics tools with new results. He manages to communicate a much wider and deeper range of characters, […]

STEVE LIEBER’S DILETTANTE Dilettante 036: Launching a New Creator-owned Series If you keep up with the North American comic book market, you might have seen the most recent edition of Previews, the monthly catalog from Diamond Comic Distributors, Inc. The cover, I’m happy to say, was my work. It was there to promote my new monthly comic […]

STEVE LIEBER’S DILETTANTE Dilettante 035: Holiday Gift Suggestions for Comics People The holidays are barreling down on us, and I’ll bet you’re as terrified as I am. You don’t know what to get the comics people in your life. Or maybe you’re a comics person and your loved ones have no idea what to get […]

STEVE LIEBER’S DILETTANTE Dilettante 034: Gratitude The culture of comics sometimes seems to be built on complaints. We spend so much time griping about our problems that it can be easy to lose sight of the many, many things that are going well or at least progressing. As Thanksgiving approaches, I thought I’d take a […]