Review – The Shonen JUMP Guide to Making Manga
The other day I was poking around Amazon, and to my surprise discovered that VIZ had just dropped The Shonen JUMP Guide to Making Manga. This is...
The Importance of Dead Simple Goals in Manga
One of the things that the top selling manga have in common is that their lead characters are almost all working towards some overall arching goal. Accomplishing...
Paul Chato’s Rules for Writing Manga?
I recently posted Paul Chato’s rules for writing sitcoms, which is an excellent discussion of the topic by someone who spent years in the trenches producing sitcoms....
September 2, 2022
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Paul Chato’s Rules for Writing a Sitcom
Canadian writer, comedian, and “Former Network Executive” Paul Chato recently released a video about how to write his favorite form of television – the Classic Sitcom. It’s...
Manga Mondays: Delicious in Dungeon
[This is a running series where I share my thoughts on a different comic most Mondays, sometimes Manga, sometimes American, Chinese, Korean or UK comics. I read...
How I Script the Webtoon Lord of Goblins
Since a few people have requested it, I decided to make a video about the script format I use when I script the webtoon Lord of Goblins....
Manga Monday: Heterogenia Linguistico: An Introduction to Interspecies Linguistics
[This is a running series where I share my thoughts on a different comic most Mondays, sometimes Manga, sometimes American, Chinese, Korean or UK comics. I read...
Manga Monday: Teenaged Mercenary
[This is a running series where I share my thoughts on a different comic each Monday, sometimes Manga, sometimes American, Chinese, Korean or UK comics. I read...
Writing Romantic Comedy Light Novels (For Men)
If you want to understand writing Romantic Comedy Light Novels (RCLN) you just need to picture a dance party in your head – a high school gym...
April 21, 2022
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Lord of Goblins: How was it Made?
Rob was part of the Moonquill podcast last weekend talking about the webcomic I script – Lord of Goblins with the authors and publisher. Enjoy!