Various Things By Peter Chapter 2 begins with Amanda’s beautiful rendition of taking the bus across Lake Washington on the 520 bridge. There are a number of surprises waiting for Joshua on the other side of that bridge. In other[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
End of Chapter 1 By Peter This concludes Chapter 1. It’s been exciting to see it get this far. The story will shift again in Chapter 2 as Joshua makes his way to the address on the envelope, and finds[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
By Peter You may have noticed that we now have Google ads on our site. Google reads the content of our blog and then chooses ads for us. When you click on them, the advertiser gets charged a little and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Nikola Tesla By Peter The life of Nikola Tesla, the Serbian-born inventor, weaves itself in and out of Coiled. I had stumbled on a biography of Tesla as a teenager, and became somewhat obsessed by this eccentric genius. One of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Recommend Graphic Novels: Elsewhere Chronicles By Peter From Europe, there’s a very cool graphic novel series called The Elsewhere Chronicles by Nykko and Bannister. A girl’s grandfather passes away, and when she and her friends explore his old house, they[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Graphic Novel Dialog (Part 2) By Peter I used to be totally into audio drama. In our visually-based society, it’s almost a dead art form, but I loved the way it brought to life images in the theater of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Recommended Graphic Novels: Drive By Peter One of my favorite webcomic artists is Dave Kellet, who many years ago started the comic Sheldon about a 10 year old, his grandfather, and their talking duck. The strips are often about nothing[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Graphic Novel Dialog By Peter Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about graphic novel dialog. I write the script for Coiled, and then Amanda follows it, but not to the letter. If you look at the first page of chapter[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Recommended Graphic Novels: Amulet By Peter Another graphic novel series I highly recommend is the Amulet series by Kazu Kibuishi. He has published two books in the series: The Stonekeeper and The Stonekeeper’s Curse. It follows the classic storyline of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Chapter 1 By Peter We finished the prologue and we’re on to chapter one. The pace slows as we follow Joshua and his quest to find his mother. The style changes, too, to black-and-white line drawings. I’m very excited to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…