STEVE LIEBER’S DILETTANTE Dilettante 033: Getting It Right I owe a lot of good things in my career to research. I don’t say this to boast, but from conversations I’ve had with people who hired me, I’ve found that I’ve gotten a lot of jobs because of my willingness to add extra steps to my […]

STEVE LIEBER’S DILETTANTE Dilettante 032: Revisiting Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home Fun Home, Alison Bechdel’s autobiographical graphic novel, first appeared in 2006, but it’s been in the news a lot over the past year. A year ago, Bechdel won the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, frequently referred to as the “Genius Grant.” In April of this year, the musical stage adaptation […]

STEVE LIEBER’S DILETTANTE Dilettante 031: More Advice on Writing for an Artist I’ve been talking to a lot of Dilettante readers recently. (And thanks, by the way, to all of you who stopped by my table in artist alley at Comic-Con this year.) It’s becoming clear that there are a lot of writers and aspiring […]

STEVE LIEBER’S DILETTANTE Dilettante 030: Comics Convention Memories With cartoonists everywhere finding ourselves deep in the Spring-Summer convention season, and the big one Comic-Con International getting closer ever day, I thought I’d take a moment to share some of my peers’ and my favorite comics convention memories. For me, one of my favorite moments was […]

STEVE LIEBER’S DILETTANTE Dilettante 029: Sustaining Career Momentum Breaking into comics is tough; no one will disagree with that. But if you’re an artist getting ready for your first job, you’ve had literally your entire life up to that moment to prepare for that job, to assemble that portfolio, to think about what you want […]

STEVE LIEBER’S DILETTANTE Dilettante 028: Things I Learned from Benjamin Dewey’s “The Tragedy Series” In earlier entries for this blog, I’ve written appreciations of artists like Will Eisner and Al Wiseman, who did some of their most notable work before I was born. With this installment I’d like to talk about the work of an artist who only […]