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Peggy Bechko’s World: Creating Comics – an abbreviated how-to

Planet of the Eggs co-creators Peggy Bechko and Charlene Brash-Sorenson — *Planet of the Eggs* co-creators Peggy Bechko and Charlene Brash-Sorenson

by Peggy Bechko

Since our newest in the Planet of The Eggs series, Eruption, has now been released in paperback, I decided this week to talk a bit about the creation of the comics. It takes a whole lot of work, but the creation process is such great fun I thought I’d share a bit of it with our readers.

I really can’t tell folks how to find a story idea other than to be open, to research and to be aware of the weird world around you. I can, however give some practical tips.

There’s a lot to it, but basically my writing and creative partner Charlene Brash-Sorensen and I use Comic Life software (you can try it free, but there is a low cost to buy – no, I’m not an affiliate so I won’t make any money if you buy a copy) to create the actual comic, but prior to that there’s a lot of prep work. read article

Web Series: “Heads of Space” & “Darth Trump – Auralnauts”

Who says political satire is dead?

Not only is it alive in politics itself (which so often these days seems like such self-parody nobody could top it), it’s thriving on the interwebs. For example: