Oct 1, 2026 · 43 min · 13 segments
Today I'm sitting with multiple Eisner award-winning writer Chuck Brown. Perhaps best known for his work on Bitter Root with David F. Walker and Sanford Greene; Chuck has made quite the career writing…
Chuck BrownGuest
BJ KicksHost
Now, with that, like, I know you were writing and world building, creating characters and stuff like, you know, from... a young age, and you kind of, you know, stumbled into relationships that helped you further the craft.

But when you realized this could be a career, were there maybe resources or tools that you kind of found to help you format it into comic scripts or anything like that?

You know, Scott McCloud, anything Scott McCloud was creating was really helpful.

And just even if I wasn't tabling, if I was tabling, I would get up and just walk around and talk to people.

The biggest resource is probably going to be your neighbor and just learning from people that came before you and just take advice as you can.

And it's OK to basically work with people that are on a different level than you and learn from them.

Just meeting people, networking, meeting the fans, you know, building your fan base.

Now, with that, like, I know you were writing and world building, creating characters and stuff like, you know, from... a young age, and you kind of, you know, stumbled into relationships that helped you further the craft.

But when you realized this could be a career, were there maybe resources or tools that you kind of found to help you format it into comic scripts or anything like that?

You know, Scott McCloud, anything Scott McCloud was creating was really helpful.

And just even if I wasn't tabling, if I was tabling, I would get up and just walk around and talk to people.

The biggest resource is probably going to be your neighbor and just learning from people that came before you and just take advice as you can.

And it's OK to basically work with people that are on a different level than you and learn from them.

Just meeting people, networking, meeting the fans, you know, building your fan base.
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