by David F. Walker | Mar 26, 2020 | BadAzz MoFo, Life & Times, MAKING COMICS, News & Updates, Writing Comics
This is the second video on making comics. I ramble on and on about different things. Hopefully this isn’t too boring (’cause it is kinda long). And here are some links to sites with comics for you to check out. PEANUTS – https://www.peanuts.com/...
by David F. Walker | Mar 25, 2020 | BadAzz MoFo, MAKING COMICS, News & Updates, Random Nonsense, Writing Comics
Like so many other people, I’m stuck at home because of COVID-19. I’ve decided to create a series of short instructional videos on how to make comics. These lessons will include basic drawing skills…because you can’t make comics with without...
by David F. Walker | Dec 16, 2019 | BadAzz MoFo, Life & Times, Writing Comics
One of my best known creations, Black Santa’s Revenge, started out as a holiday greeting card. For more than ten years I had been designing my own greeting cards—this was back when I still had aspirations to be a comic book artist (but that never quite worked out)....
by David F. Walker | Aug 22, 2019 | BadAzz MoFo, Life & Times, News & Updates, Writing Comics
Writers…oh, how we love our words. The problem is that in comics it isn’t just about the words, it is also about the pictures. As a writer, sometimes I forget that the words aren’t as important as they seemed when I wrote them. When I got the gig writing PLANET OF THE...
by David F. Walker | Aug 15, 2019 | BadAzz MoFo, Discombobulated, Writing Comics
For the last few years I have been teaching ‘Writing for Comics’ at Portland State University (often co-teaching with my dear friend, Brian Michael Bendis). For the class mid-term the students are required to create their own web comic. After years of telling students...
by David F. Walker | Aug 13, 2019 | BadAzz MoFo, Life & Times, News & Updates, Solid Comix, Writing Comics
My first full-length comic book story was a 32-page, self-published story called FUNKYTOWN that appeared in the pages of my magazine, BadAzz Mofo. FUNKYTOWN was my homage to blaxploitation, mixed with comedy (at least my idea of comedy at the time), and a bit horror....