Writing can be a world of fun. Crafting worlds, inventing characters, preplanning the most epic moments. I have yet to meet a person who doesn’t enjoy stretching their creative muscles to some extent. But how many of those people, how many of those ideas, are published? It’s not for a lack of people wanting to… Read more
There’s no “right” way for an aspiring writer to get their foot in the door of the entertainment industry, but there is a collection of tried and true tools that help crack the door open a little more. One of the late game tools for “established” writers is pitching an original idea: for a show,… Read more
We often think of writers moving from comics to television, not the other way around, but one of the ways Darby Pop stands out from other publishers is many of our writers originated in television. As other posts have discussed before, both mediums have their advantages and their restrictions, but what is it like for… Read more
Here on Darby Pops Off, one theme holds true across all of our blog posts, all of our guest writers. There’s something magical about comics. Some power that hooks people early on and never lets them go. Comics certainly never let animation professional Phil Crain go, as he shares with us below. If you have… Read more
For a time in my childhood I was obsessed with superheroes, especially Spider-Man, the X-Men, and Batman. There was one important reason why these three captured my heart. Because they had cartoons. Reading an issue of Batman, made me hyped for the next episode of Batman: The Animated Series and vice versa. The comics were… Read more
Writing content for children can be intimidating. Extra expectations may be forced upon the writer. Does your script have a clear moral for your audience to learn? Will an eight year old “get” the joke you wrote about pineapples? Is the exposition too dry or uses words you can’t expect a 3rd grader to know?… Read more
Everyone knows there’s a difference between truth and fiction. In real life, crises are rarely averted at the last possible second, conversations aren’t typically filled with rapid-fire repartee, and not every father is flummoxed by how to care for his own children. It’s this last stereotypical representation that our guest blogger for today, Stu Krieger — feature… Read more