Jerzy Drozd

LIA Cast 78 - The Pros and Cons of Cons

CAG 79 - The Final Superhero Discussion with Dan Mishkin and Dean Trippe

Jerzy's back, but we're also joined by another special guest this week! LIA Instructor Krishna Sadasivam stops by the show to share some of his reflections, experiences, and point of view culled from his 15-year career as ...

It's hard enough to learn how to draw, but things get even dicier when we start talking about what it takes to create appeal. Fortunately I'm joined by Chris Giarrusso of the eminently appealing G-Man series (http://chrisg...

How do you design awesome action sequences? What's the secret to writing scenes that make the audience roar with laughter? I know I couldn't answer these questions on my own, so I'm grateful to be joined by the perfect rou...

What better medium than comics to capture the majesty and mayhem of Greek Mythology? Especially in the hands of celebrated cartoonist George O'Connor, creator of The Olympians series from First Second books (http://olympia...

CAG 78 - Cartoon Appeal with Chris Giarrusso

Edited version and audio podcast can be found at http://comicsaregreat.com/c...

The live feed from CAG 77 - Action and Comedy. You can find the edited version at http://comicsaregreat.com/c...

The musical intro to the Comics Are Great! show, airing every other Wednesday at 12:30 pm ET on this channel!

It's another epic-length episode as we deconstruct a question from Leaner Tyrel Pinnegar:

My question is this: Under what circumstances is it appropriate to make the progress of your project public? Are there any advantag...

The season finale of Asking For Trouble is a tournament of champions! Jennifer Howell, Dave Roman, Pedro Delgado, Jerzy Drozd, and Joe Dunn return ...

Our curveball once again hacks the show! We got an interesting question from Lee the other day:

"Can misidentifying your tribe initially hurt your career/personal projects?"

Full show notes and links here: http://leanint...

I'm excited to talk with Calista Brill, Senior Editor at First Second Books, about the entire process of developing and publishing a graphic novel. What does a good pitch look like? What qualities are editors looking for i...

This is the raw recording of CAG 75. Edited and audio version can be found at http://comicsaregreat.com/c...

Shakespeare in Busan and the Busan English Theatre Association present a live choose-your-own-adventure play, based the book by Ryan North ( www.ha...

Whether you find yourself working on a team for a job or just engaging in a creative "rock band" experiment, chances are that you'll eventually work with someone, sometime, on something.

But when groups get together to do...

This time we discover that Sumo wrestling can be a metaphor for the creative life thanks to the work of Thien Pham, author of Sumo from First Second Books (http://us.macmillan.com/sum... ). Together we explore how ...

Stick to your knitting. Specialize. Find your niche. Operate in your wheelhouse. And a zillion other clichés that get thrown around. It's been accepted as common wisdom that one should find the one thing they have some tal...

This is the raw video from the live stream of CAG 74. The edited version and audio podcast can be found at http://comicsaregreat.com/c...

The hard fact of it is, few people make a ton of money at this comics jazz. And while we've talked about creating various streams of income in past shows, we've yet to talk about how to get more out of less of our financia...

We're thrilled to have Gregg Schigiel, the artist behind many of the ever-present images of Spongebob Squarepants in comics and on products, for a talk on working on a beloved children's character. Is it all fame and candy...

Whether you're self-publishing or working with a publisher, a cold hard reality we cartoonists face is getting the word out about your book. This time I'm joined by author Stephen McCranie for a discussion on how he used a...

This is the raw video from the live stream of CAG 73. The edited version and audio podcast version can be found at http://comicsaregreat.com/c...

This is the raw video from the live stream of CAG 72. The edited video and audio podcast can be found at http://comicsaregreat.com/c...

This is the raw stream from CAG 71. The edited version and audio podcast version can be found at http://comicsaregreat.com/c...