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Oct.11.2012

Read my new essay on Sex & the City at Vivid Scribe!

J's Latest Blogs

Jun.16.2013 - 4:24 am
So, what do you do when you write something 15 years ago, post it online when the internet is just starting up and people were still wondering whether they should call it the...
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Oct.11.2012 - 8:13 pm
Five foreign languages have I learned in my time, to varying levels of fluency. The first was German, at high school and later at a college in Germany. Then came Korean, because I...
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Oct.10.2012 - 7:34 pm
Renowned rock star Pete Townshend has just published his autobiography, Who I Am, a book which he has dedicated to 'the artist inside all of us.' In Pete's autobiography you...
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Oct.04.2012 - 3:31 am
My colleague Kate Krake, of vividscribe.com, wrote an essay on the topic of metamodern movie musicals, for example, High Fidelity.* I illustrated it as a comic and it is now...
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Comments from J

Mar.18.2011 - 3:58 pm
In response to: Profanity - A Literary Tool or Mere Laziness
As soon as you mentioned Monty Python, the song 'Always Look on the Bright Side of Life' sprang to mind, supporting...
Mar.17.2011 - 7:16 am
In response to: Profanity - A Literary Tool or Mere Laziness
I used to write a lot of that kind of dialogue but I don't anymore. I've even made an effort not to swear when speaking...
Mar.14.2011 - 2:36 pm
In response to: If I created a graphic novel script, but was not an artist. Is that a waste of my time?
Yep, it can be hard, as you've seen. If you go to the big conventions you'll see how much competition there is for you...
Mar.13.2011 - 4:12 am
In response to: A Minor Failure
Could you sketch it? I'm curious now. What the heck did you see?
Mar.12.2011 - 6:02 pm
In response to: Business is now comic-al
Right now a hot seller in Japan is a novel about a junior high school baseball coach who uses Peter Drucker's book on...

Published Reviews

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Jan.12.2013
Published by Sydney Morning Herald
"...thought-provoking, contemplative, and exploring the narrative and visual possibilities of his medium."