Freelance writer and independent comic book creator.
I’ve mentioned previously that learning to write for the comic book page required a major shift in my own mind in terms of how I constructed a narrative. I wanted to touch on how much this new medium changed how I planned action and dialogue in the story of Code… read more »
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Why dragons? It’s a question I’ve been asked more than once by people curious about the use of these mythological creatures as the focal point for a story that, for the most part, takes place deep underground within the borders of a major metropolis. Not typical ‘dragon country,’ either geographically… read more »
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This morning I did something I’ve never done before: clicked the ‘Launch’ button on a Kickstarter project and made the Code 45 Issue 1 crowdfunding project official. You can find the campaign at www.code-45.com. Together with Joe Ng and Angela Hodge, I’ve spent the last two years putting in a… read more »
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What style of music is Vanessa hearing for the first time as she attends her inaugural rave in Code 45? It’s a question I pondered when originally penning the script, because while electronic dance music is currently enjoying widespread mainstream acceptance, in the early 2000s era in which the graphic… read more »
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One of the best things about collaborating with creatively talented people is that they often take a concept in a different direction than it was originally intended, and improve it in the process. This panel is a perfect example. In the script I sent to Joe Ng, I described Vanessa… read more »
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Even though I’ve been a professional writer for over a decade, putting words on the page so that our artist, Joe Ng, could translate them into sequential art was a completely new experience. When we first started working together, Joe sent me some sample scripts from a few of his… read more »
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When putting together Code 45‘s story, I had to make a conscious decision about how ‘realistic’ I wanted the representation of Montreal’s metro system to be. Personally, I’ve always felt that story should come first when depicting a certain technology or profession in media, as long as it made sense… read more »
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I’m a late bloomer when it comes to ‘traditional’ comics. If you can believe it, aisde from a collected ‘Batman Greatest Stories Ever Told’ paperback that my father had in his library, my earliest comic origins come from hardcover collections of both Daffy Duck and Mickey Mouse comics presented as… read more »
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In the early 2000s, music commanded more attention than nearly anything else in my life. I would spend most of that decade promoting raves in Montreal and Ottawa, putting together a small independent record label with a partner in order to release my own electronic music, and touring in a… read more »
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I posted earlier this week about the thought process behind the time period we used for Code 45 in terms of how it impacted the narrative. It’s also tempting to view the decision to set the book in the year 2000 as a paean to nostalgia. After all, it’s the… read more »
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