Learning from Joe Hisaishi's Creative Process
Inspiration from a master composer and music director
Graphic Novel Gamebook
Notes on comics, publishing, and the creative life.
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What To Do with Our 4,000 Weeks?
On learning the freedom of missing out
Of Brain and Inking Comics
Do you listen to things when you work on your comics or graphic novels?
The Long Game of a Graphic Novelist
Reframing the creative journey during the industry's ups and downs
On Why I Love David McCullough’s John Adams
The joy of falling hard for history.
Imaginary Mentors and Real Lessons
Lessons from my imaginary mentor Richard Feynman
Short Cycles, Long Game
How The 12 Week Year helped me build a sustainable creative system as a graphic novelist
Affinity in the Time of Adobe Dominance
When Affinity goes free, how will it affect the traditional publishing industry?
On Entertainment When Making Comics
I roughly divide my comic-making process in two major phases.
On Shigeru Mizuki and the World of Yokai
When I first conceptualized Monkey King and the World of Myths: The Battle of the Beasts, I already knew the story would take place in Heian-Kyo, capital of ancient Japan.