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The thing with a “main character”, is that the reader see the story/world from that characters point of view - we can often read the characters thoughts and feelings more than other characters in the story. You can also use the perspective to increase this “effect”.

You can use the eye-level to display the world seen from the main character. Look at the two pictures above, the characters have the same size on both pictures - the only difference I’ve made is to switch eye-level. And by just doing this, we switch between the adult and the kids point of view - even though they both look at the same thing.

So, when you are doing a perspective, FIRST decide the eye-level and after that start placing out all those annoying guidelines.

Helpful advice for creating journalistic comics!

Leela Corman and Luna of Cairo have an amazing story on life as a belly dancer in Egypt slated for our June issue.
We can’t wait to share it with you. Subscribe! iPad, PDF, Kindle.

Leela Corman and Luna of Cairo have an amazing story on life as a belly dancer in Egypt slated for our June issue.

We can’t wait to share it with you. Subscribe! iPad, PDF, Kindle.

The latest issue of Inkt|art is online and it’s such a treat. This issue is all comics journalism—and all works are by lady creators. Stories include:

Sara Drake, Elsewhere
Eroyn Franklin, Detained
Noel Franklin, Last Call: Club Lingerie
Emi Gennis, S.A. Andree’s Ill-Fated Expedition
Leanne Grabel, The Family Fate Ate
Charlene Potts, Real Problems & Brilliant Solutions in America: A Guide
K-Fai Steele, Mystery Monkey

The latest issue of Inkt|art is online and it’s such a treat. This issue is all comics journalism—and all works are by lady creators. Stories include:

Sara Drake, Elsewhere

Eroyn Franklin, Detained

Noel Franklin, Last Call: Club Lingerie

Emi Gennis, S.A. Andree’s Ill-Fated Expedition

Leanne Grabel, The Family Fate Ate

Charlene Potts, Real Problems & Brilliant Solutions in America: A Guide

K-Fai Steele, Mystery Monkey

Sarah Drake has an extensive and very smart interview with Sarah Glidden up at Bad at Sports. It’s a really savvy conversation about comics, journalism, and being an artist.
Drake has created tremendous comics from Cambodia, and Glidden, a contributor to Symbolia, is working on a new book about journalism and the Middle East (check out the sneak peek above!). Their chat is totally worth a read.

Sarah Drake has an extensive and very smart interview with Sarah Glidden up at Bad at Sports. It’s a really savvy conversation about comics, journalism, and being an artist.

Drake has created tremendous comics from Cambodia, and Glidden, a contributor to Symbolia, is working on a new book about journalism and the Middle East (check out the sneak peek above!). Their chat is totally worth a read.

We're #25 in Amazon's non-fiction graphic novel list! Click to get us to the top 10!

This is totally amazing news. Kindle editions of Symbolia can be read within the Kindle app on any tablet. To help us break into the top 10, please purchase one of the below issues:

Don’t delay! Here’s what’s available today:

  • How We Survive: Our double-sized preview edition features stories on Zambian rock stars, California’s Salton Sea, theories of evolution from the Lower Congo River, and more. This issue is free and available here.
  • We Don’t BelongLearn firsthand about the impact of deportation from a family torn apart, discover the weird, rebellious, and conspiratorial world of third party politics in the United States, and meet a Dalit Christian pastor fighting for equality in India. Available here.
  • The Mating RitualWhat happens when love meets science? Insect organs, love robots and non-traditional relationships populate this issue of Symbolia. Available here.

Symbolia’s Cofounder Erin Polgreen was interviewed by J-Lab on the magazine’s roll out and release last December. To date, Symbolia has been featured in over 100 publications around the globe—and we’re just getting started. Stay tuned this week for some big announcements!

Big thanks to Chris Cassidy, Kate Gardiner, and Aleia Murawski for helping make our launch such a big success.