Learning Your Strengths and Weakness: Jon Klassen Interview P.1
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2024
- Episode 14 of Coffee Table Comics Podcast!
Jon Klassen is the creator of I WANT MY HAT BACK, THIS IS NOT MY HAT, and WE FOUND A HAT as well as a bunch more amazing books he illustrated in the list below.
Jon talks about how he figured out his voice as an artists. We talk about his early career in Laika and Dreamworks too.
Here are Jon's books on Amazon:
I Want My Hat Back: amzn.to/2q4dQpL
This is Not My Hat: amzn.to/2qt661o
We Found a Hat: amzn.to/2qUqrgb
The Dark: amzn.to/2q6TQAG
House Held Up by Trees: amzn.to/2q4hmAu
Triangle: amzn.to/2qtkabB
Extra Yarn: amzn.to/2r1mMcz
Pax: amzn.to/2q3Z96f
Sam and Dave Dig a Hole: amzn.to/2q3XRrJ
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Hi I'm Jason Brubaker. I have been self-publishing comics since 2009. My first book reMIND won the Xeric grant and got on the Great Graphic Novels for Teens List in 2012. I used to work at Dreamworks Animation doing Visual Development but I finally quit in 2015 and started doing comics full-time.
'As gently and Canadianly as possible'! I love that! Bless him.
The three videos in this series should be required viewing for anyone interested in creating picture books. In them, Jon generously shares the fundamentals as well as his own insights, all from the perspective of a principled artist who takes the medium seriously. These are not about drawing or technique, things you can learn elsewhere, but they are about things that can only be taught by someone with Jon's talent, experience and clarity. Thanks, Jon and Jason!
Such an interesting interview! Big fan of his works!
Jon is such a gentleman and generous in nature. I love that he is at the 'rock star' level of illustration but seems to be wholly grounded and humble.
This might be the best interview with an illustrator I've found! Thank you!
I love how these interviews make us feel like we're hanging out with them.
Great interview! Jon's work and his sense of design continue to amaze me.
This is a great interview, Jason. Thanks for making it. On a side note, everyone needs to use Dog Bark swear censors from now on.
Such a great interview! Thank you for interviewing Jon! So many great insights!!! I liked the part about building upon your strengths!
Thanks Iva! :) Your interviews have been amazing too. :)
I really enjoyed that thank u im a big fan of Jon !
Thank you! :)
Really interesting. I like that stuff about working to your strengths.
This was such a great interview, thank you so much.
Great interview! I'm getting so many good advices out of this
That was awesome! mucho thanks for the interview! :)
Very inspiring, thank u for this
we have two of his books! my wife loves him!
Haha! That's great. My favorite children's book illustrator and author by far. :)
His books are great! He has the most subversive tone in his storytelling since Suess. He doesnt talk down to his audience even though theyre children.
hi @Jason Brubaker i absolutely love your comic sithra on webtoons 👍, also can i get an advice from you as you have worked in big production houses like dream works. I'm 23 dropped out of engineering cuz i lost mind to dilemma quite late and decided to pursue my dream (i think).I'm pursuing an animation degree course (into year 2 of 3)so it includes 3d modelling aswell along with 2d and 3d animation. Now I'm to choose a specialisation in animation/rigging or 3d modelling/texturing/lighting or vfx. I'm having a hard time choosing between animation and 3d modelling.. i love artistic stuff, love creating characters, at the same time love seeing the character alive. i don't really know what to choose.. people say animators have more scope and demands also I've come to hear animation has become rather automated using various plugins but i love it the traditional way. whereas 3d modelling is still the same (closest u can get to traditional sculpting although i don't have any sculpting experience, i was more one into sketching on paper and wanted to create characters/props for games or even movies) u still have all of your own thoughts to put into it and so more artistic or so i believe. But not as much scope or demand for the 3d modellers. *I'm confused*
i don't want to mess up again as my parents are working hard and were awesome enough to understand that i wanted to change course but i feel I'm being a burden on them
😞... my once school mates have started working 9 to 6 jobs. and I'm still studying.. can't see my parents work their ass off for me like this. and here i am still confused...
Sorry i had to write here as i couldn't find your email id.
INKnGraphite Hey there! I know it seems like you need to know exactly what you want to do in life when you are in college but I think it's unfair to ask someone in their 20's what they want to do for the rest of their lives. I was in my 30's when I finally started figuring out what I wanted to do. Now in my 40's I finally think I'm doing what I want to do after 20 years of trying different things.
I guess what I'm saying is that the best thing you can do is take a step in the direction you think you should go and then see what doors open up for you. Maybe an unexpected door will open up and you'll enjoy that opportunity. But maybe you have to experience something to see that you don't like it too.
I know I'm probably not helping much with your dilemma but this is kind of the question that everyone has to ask themselves and figure out for themselves. What can you offer the world that only you can give? What things in life make you want to wake up in the morning excited?
Try a bunch of things and see what sticks.
I'm sure your parents know what they're doing and paying for you to go to college. They obviously see something in you to make them want to keep paying for you even though you changed your course.
Hope this helps somehow.
Coffee Table Comics thanks a lot :) really helped....👍
did you bleep out curse words with a dog bark?