Tag: Dilettante

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…

STEVE LIEBER’S DILETTANTE Dilettante 026: The Importance of Sketchbooks Telling stories with comics requires that an artist keep things consistent. Characters, settings and props generally need to look the same from panel to panel, page to page, story to story. And a cartoonist—even one who draws “realistically”—needs to create a stylized, abstracted world that maintains…

STEVE LIEBER’S DILETTANTE! Dilettante 025: New Year’s Resolutions for a Comics Artist There’s a new year on the calendar. A week of double shifts at the drawing board has helped me catch up for all the work time lost to holiday celebrations. It’s time for me to finally look ahead and think about what I…

STEVE LIEBER’S DILETTANTE Dilettante 024: Tips on Mentoring Way back in my 2nd column here on Toucan (click here to read it!), I called for a revival of mentorship via cartoonists working in an informal apprentice system. I’ve meant to return to the subject for a long time. As part of Periscope Studio, a workspace…

STEVE LIEBER’S DILETTANTE Dilettante 023: Influences Last weekend I was riding Amtrak back from a convention when my train was delayed by a freight train. Stuck there in a comfortable seat with only 10,000 calories of tasty snack food close at hand, two good e-books, and four strong bars of free wifi, I wondered how…