I've been a passionate creator of monsters and otherworldly beings since I was old enough to pick up a crayon. While I'm a mild-mannered graphic designer by day, I explore the worlds of darker creatures by night. For many years, I thought my art had to look like everyone else's to be successful. I started by colouring at Image Comics in the 1990s and went almost exclusively into comic-based digital work for many years after.
Blame George Orwell, who in 1946 famously published "Why I Write," an essay contending with the motives of "political purpose" and "aesthetic enthusiasm," which fueled his career, even while noting that the decision to put pen to paper is in some ways inexplicable. "Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness," Orwell wrote.
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the collaboration between director and subject takes on a fraught and delicate dynamic, defined by continuous negotiation between creative intentions in conflict as often as they overlap.
"I believe the insistence on blurbs has become incredibly damaging to what should be our industry's ultimate goal: producing books of the highest possible quality," Manning wrote.
"The murder mystery genre has served me well," Johnson told Business Insider with a giggle in the days leading up to the season two premiere of 'Poker Face' on Thursday.
"Behind the Curtain, the Netflix documentary about the making of Stranger Things: The First Shadow, frames a story of triumph despite highlighting the chaotic production process of a lackluster Broadway play."