Episode 300: Direct Feedback and a Retreat Recap

Welcome to Making Comics, a podcast exploring the comics process from six different perspectives today.

I'm Scott Loss, the creator and artist of The Second Shift, Wanderers of Melisande, Paradise Hills, and Granite from The Accidental Aliens.

And I

am Keith Foster.

I write the novel The Witchmaster of Norway, the comics Space Minotaur, Animals, Three Protectors, Dream Logic, and Kadoja.

And I'm Scott Serklin, the creator of the comic book Young and the Dead and the upcoming comic book

Hipoptimus Rhyme.

I'm Jim Luhan, indie animator.

friend to all.

And you can catch my stuff on Animation Plus

and at JimLuhan.com. I'm Gary Hodges.

I'm the creator, writer, and artist behind D vs. M, Dinosaurs vs. Mars Box.

I'm Corey Kerr, and I'm the creator of Rage of Enlightenment, which you can find with the rest of my illustrations and animations at CoreyKerr.com.

All right.

Heck yeah.

So this is the crew that we have left.

So this is Crestline crew retreats, uh, 2026.

We are missing Joshua Kimball.

So Joshua, I had to, uh, I know I'm saying Joshua, very formal.

Uh, he had to leave a bit earlier to get back to life.

He had some teacher stuff he has to do.

So, We are the remaining creators for this year.

So we're going to go around.

Corey, why don't we start with you? So what did you...

Welcome to Making Comics, a podcast exploring the comics process from six different perspectives today.

I'm Scott Loss, the creator and artist of The Second Shift, Wanderers of Melisande, Paradise Hills, and Granite from The Accidental Aliens.

And I

am Keith Foster.

I write the novel The Witchmaster of Norway, the comics Space Minotaur, Animals, Three Protectors, Dream Logic, and Kadoja.

And I'm Scott Serklin, the creator of the comic book Young and the Dead and the upcoming comic book

Hipoptimus Rhyme.

I'm Jim Luhan, indie animator.

friend to all.

And you can catch my stuff on Animation Plus

and at JimLuhan.com. I'm Gary Hodges.

I'm the creator, writer, and artist behind D vs. M, Dinosaurs vs. Mars Box.

I'm Corey Kerr, and I'm the creator of Rage of Enlightenment, which you can find with the rest of my illustrations and animations at CoreyKerr.com.

All right.

Heck yeah.

So this is the crew that we have left.

So this is Crestline crew retreats, uh, 2026.

We are missing Joshua Kimball.

So Joshua, I had to, uh, I know I'm saying Joshua, very formal.

Uh, he had to leave a bit earlier to get back to life.

He had some teacher stuff he has to do.

So, We are the remaining creators for this year.

So we're going to go around.

Corey, why don't we start with you? So what did you...