I used the World War II as an analogy for responding to climate change in my comic Hitler Denial. In this essay, I discuss the merits and limitations of this comparison.
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I describe the storytelling philosophy I employed in my comic Hitler Denial. The comic is about climate change, but I deliberately avoided getting bogged-down in ‘Climate Change 101’ debates.
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Peak Oil is the longest comic that I have published. It is 120 pages long, and took me over 12 months to create. I use this blog post to reflect upon the aspects of Peak Oil that I am most proud of.
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I discuss the artistic decisions that I make when drawing my Peak Oil comic. I describe my philosophy about panel arrangement, page layout, and background art details. I also explain how I used the roller coaster as a way to stealthily educate readers using a ‘graph that is not a graph’.
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Following on from my last blog post, I use Peak Oil as a test-case. I include ‘before’ and ‘after’ slideshows which demonstrate how the Peak Oil artwork evolved from drafts to final artwork.
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I describe every stage of my comics creation process. This includes everything from research, to writing, to storyboarding, to drawing the final artwork.
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Peak Oil was released nearly two years after my previous major comic, Rat Park. What caused this delay? I describe the various struggles I had creating my Peak Oil comic.
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I explain my storytelling philosophy as a science communication cartoonist. I discuss how I avoid writing ‘propaganda’ political comics, with pre-chewed messages for my readers.
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