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Our Best Jackett
Newsletter #212: Pitying the Fool
Hey guys, it's Scott.It is Tuesday, June 3rd (but you’ll be hearing this on Wednesday, June 4th), and I'm back from Fan Expo Dallas. It was a great, great trip. I got to hang out with brother Greg Capullo for the whole weekend.We always go out to dinner just like, us and his wonderful wife, Jamie, when we're away. Sometimes with Jon Glapion, too, when he's there, who inked a ton of the Batman run we did together, and he's also a dear friend. And it was great, man. We went out to...
2025-06-04
05 min
Our Best Jackett
Newsletter #210: Absolute Batman Vol. 2 - Abomination
Hey guys, it's Scott.It is Wednesday, May 14th. And I just wanted to do a very quick post about four big things we have happening right now. So the first one, we have Absolute Batman #8 out in stores today. This is the second part of our Mr. Freeze arc. It's the finale and it sets up everything coming. So it's got a big cliffhanger. You get to see Mr. Freeze be creepy as f**k. We’re really excited about the design. We’re excited about the take on him. I can’t say enough good things...
2025-05-14
03 min
Our Best Jackett
Newsletter #205: What Makes Comics Sell?
Hey guys, it's Scott.It is Monday, March 10th, and I hope you had a great weekend. I'm really excited for this week. We're going to be doing a Comic Writing 101 class this Wednesday night at 9:30pm EST. It'll be live and then if you're a paid subscriber, you have access to that. Or if you can't make it for the actual class on time, you have access to it in our vast archives by the next day when we post it alongside the like 30+ other classes we've done.The subject this week is telling...
2025-03-10
12 min
Our Best Jackett
Newsletter #204: Marching Back to Class!
Hey guys, it's Scott.It is Friday, March 7th, and I wanted to do just a very quick lightning fast post announcing that we're going to have a class next week! I'm really excited, we'll be doing a Comic Writing 101 (I guess it's 103 by this point because we're in our third or fourth year, really, of our class) Wednesday night, 9:30pm EST. The subject will be telling a personal story in comics across the medium. It's a subject that's really close to my heart. It's something I've been thinking about for a while. I think it's actually...
2025-03-08
02 min
Our Best Jackett
Newsletter #203: Mark Waid's Comic Writing 101
Hey guys, it's Scott.It is Monday, February 10th and forgive my voice. I'm not sick anymore, I was just down in Orlando for MegaCon and I did a ton of talking all weekend. So I am home, I am healthy in the deep, deep snow of New York. But I wanted to do a really quick post and just mention two big things we have going on this week. First, Absolute Batman #5 comes out Wednesday.Everybody on the team is super excited about this one. It's back to the regular team—Nick Dragotta, Frank Ma...
2025-02-11
04 min
Our Best Jackett
Newsletter #202: Absolutely Sick
Hey guys, it's Scott.It is Friday, January 31st. Forgive my voice or any coughing. I got all better at the end of last week and then I had to take a quick work trip and the traveling did me in. I'm old and apparently my body has like, no defenses whatsoever anymore. So I have a bit of a cold, which is running through our house. So again, apologies for the old man voice. But I wanted to make a post about a few things. First, some housekeeping. We have MegaCon coming up the weekend after...
2025-01-31
13 min
Our Best Jackett
Newsletter #201: Up in the Air
Hey guys, it's Scott.And forgive me for talking low, but I am in an airport. Jeanie and I are on our way back from New Mexico. She surprised me for my birthday with a weekend away, just the two of us, so we went to Santa Fe and drove around and saw some of the amazing towns outside of Santa Fe itself and did some exploring. We love this region, I love this whole area, it’s one of my favorites in the country so it was a blast.I'll say more about it wh...
2025-01-20
01 min
Our Best Jackett
12/18/24 Absolute Comic Writing 101 (One-Shots) Archive
Hey guys, it’s Scott.Thanks for talking One-Shots with me! This class was a little shaggy, but a ton of fun, capping off a great day of signings like brother James’ with Joshua Hixson at 4th World in Smithtown:And my own signing at Red Shirt Comics in Port Jefferson!It was so, so great getting into the different kinds of storytelling devices people have used for one-shots over the years, from the gorgeous Daredevil one from Mark Waid and the Riveras to the powerhouse Spectacular Spider-Man one from Chip Zdarsky (who just...
2024-12-20
1h 44
Our Best Jackett
Newsletter #200: Two Hundred Best Jacketts
Hey guys, it's Scott.It is Monday, December 16th, and this is our 200th newsletter! Two hundred, my God, I can't believe it. When we started this, we weren't sure how long we could keep it going. We didn't know if you guys would show up. We didn't know if it would grow, shrink, if anyone would have as much fun as we were making it. But the fact that you guys have stuck with us this long, almost four years, and grown it to something so big, it really means everything. I love having this connection...
2024-12-17
06 min
Our Best Jackett
Newsletter #199: Wear the Black Jackett!
Hey guys, it's Scott.It is Thursday, December 12th. So close to Christmas, our house is just a chaos of pre-holiday madness. Our 17 year-old Jack is in the fever of finishing applying to colleges, which is wild. Our 13 year-old is obsessed with what moves the Yankees are going to make now that they lost Juan Soto to the Mets. And our five-year-old Quinn is just making Christmas lists right and left and just had his song fest yesterday, which was basically so cute you could just sort of die from it.Anyway, a couple quick...
2024-12-12
08 min
Our Best Jackett
Newsletter #198: Absolute Batman: Year One
Hey guys, it's Scott.It is Monday, December 2nd. And I hope you had a fantastic Thanksgiving and holiday weekend. Ours was really relaxed. We didn't do too much. We went into New York City and visited my parents who still live in my high school apartment. And my sister came up from Maryland with her husband and girls. And it was like, a kid fest. Kids just running up and down the hallways shooting Nerf things and all kinds of chaos. But it was a lot of fun. We went out and got our tree. We...
2024-12-02
05 min
Our Best Jackett
Newsletter #197: We Are Family
Hey guys, it's Scott.It is Wednesday, November 27th, the day before Thanksgiving. I can't believe Thanksgiving is upon us. I have to go pick up all of our side dishes at Whole Foods in a bit. We're going to my parents in the city for Thanksgiving. My sister's coming up from Maryland. Can't wait to see everybody. And we're just taking it easy this year. It's been a long year. So much to be thankful for, which is sort of the theme of this post. But I didn't want to focus on the stuff that I've...
2024-11-27
07 min
Our Best Jackett
11/15/24 Absolute Comic Writing 101 (Reinventing Superheroes feat. Kelly Thompson) Archive
Hey guys, it’s Scott.And it was such a blast doing this again! Getting to see some familiar names in the chat alongside a bunch of new ones is what keeps this whole thing going. Thank you all for stopping by! The class went longer than I thought it would, but that’s only because it was so much fun talking comic writing with Kelly Thompson. Her work with Hayden on Absolute Wonder Woman was sensational, and it was great getting a glimpse at the first issue and what inspired it!The other examples we l...
2024-11-15
2h 13
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Newsletter #195: A Second Issue Sell-Out!
Hey guys, it's Scott.It is Wednesday, November 13th. Forgive my voice, I have a cold. I got it from my five-year-old who is a Petri dish, but a wonderful Petri dish. But today I just wanted to do a reminder because we have a few really big things this week. First, the most obvious, Absolute Batman is out today!Absolute Batman #2 by Nick Dragotta and me and Frank Martin on colors and Clayton Cowles on letters. We're really proud of it. I'm having such a blast on this series. We never expected it to...
2024-11-13
03 min
Our Best Jackett
Newsletter #194: A Return to Form!
Hey guys, it's Scott.It is Tuesday, October 29th. I can't believe it's so long since I've done a post. I promise this will not happen again. But as many of you know who have met with me or saw me at conventions or just follow me in general on social media, this last month and a half has been the busiest of my whole life, easily, between finishing the season two Wytches animated series writer's room for Amazon and, of course, being a part of the launch of DC All In, DC Comics’ big initiative this Oc...
2024-10-29
05 min
Our Best Jackett
Newsletter #193: Absolute Batman Sells, Absolute Wonder Woman Excels!
Hey guys, it's Scott.It is Friday, September 27th. I can't believe it's almost October, but I also can't believe the news that came from DC yesterday to the Absolute Batman team, which is that you guys sold out the first issue already at the distributor level!I've never had an issue sell out this early as far as I can remember, and to sell out at a quarter million copies, it's just overwhelming. I don't know how to say thank you enough to you guys. We were hoping for maybe six figures. The goal...
2024-09-27
07 min
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Newsletter #192: A Self-Promotion How-To
Hey guys, it's Scott.It is Tuesday, September 17th, and all the orders for Absolute Batman #1 are in. I have no idea what they are. I won't know for a day or two, but I am tired and relieved and so grateful above all to you guys for all of the support, the energy, the conversation. When you do a book like this, the worst thing that can happen is nobody cares, so there's no response whatsoever. It's a personal one. It was a real labor of love for me and Nick and the whole team. It's...
2024-09-17
08 min
Our Best Jackett
Last Day to Pre-Order ABSOLUTE BATMAN #1!
Hey, guys, it's Scott.And a very, very last message, I promise, to remind you that this is the very last day to order Absolute Batman.After today, there's no more ordering it. You'll have to take your chances on the day of release on October 9th. But because it's likely to sell out, I would absolutely recommend that you reserve your copy now so you don't miss out. Call your local shop. We've got tons of awesome covers for it:We can't thank you enough, the whole team, for the excitement and...
2024-09-16
00 min
Our Best Jackett
Newsletter #191: All In on Absolute Batman!
Hey guys, it's Scott.It is Friday, September 6th, and you can consider this a true proof-of-life post. I promise we're going to get back to more regular posting and the class, and we're even going to be doing a livestream next week. I'll say more about it soon. Wednesday night with Nick Dragotta about Absolute Batman. But right now I'm just white-knuckling it straight to New York Comic Con. The Wytches writers room is going. We have tons of comic stuff coming. Everything will get back to normal soon. But I wanted to do a quick...
2024-09-06
10 min
Our Best Jackett
Newsletter #190: In Case You Missed SDCC
Hey guys, it's Scott. It is Friday, August 2nd, and I am not well rested, but back and situated from San Diego. And I just want to say thanks to everybody who was there, especially the Black Jackett members. The breakfast that we got to have together was honestly one of the biggest highlights of the whole convention. It was such a blast and it makes me so excited to see the community that we've built here with Our Best Jackett, so it means the world to me. But it was also so much fun...
2024-08-02
12 min
Our Best Jackett
Newsletter #188: DC ALL IN & ABSOLUTE BATMAN
Hey guys, it's Scott.It is Wednesday, July 17th, and I can't believe this day is finally here. It's a huge one for us. We're announcing DC All In, our big 2024 into 2025 initiative.And it's something that's been over two years, three years even, in the making. And I can't believe it's actually here. I'm terrified and incredibly excited and honored and thrilled and all of it to be a part of this huge thing that DC is doing. And I wanted to do a post here where I could talk a little bit more...
2024-07-18
06 min
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Newsletter #187: A Twisty, Turny Prelude
Hey guys, it's Scott.It is Tuesday, June 25th, and I cannot believe that June is almost over. It has been a whirlwind here of college visiting and baseball card collecting, baseball game viewing, a lot of parenting, a lot of swimming, but comics as well. We are gearing up for an amazing summer. We've got White Boat going right now, and we've got some big announcements coming very soon. And I can't wait for you guys to see them, but I'm making a post today just to kind of load up the class this week. I...
2024-06-25
03 min
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Newsletter #185: The Big Lead-Up
Hey guys, it's Scott.It is Friday, June 14th. I can't believe June is flying by, and I'm so sorry I've been out of pocket with these. I'm gonna make it a regular thing again starting next week, but I have good reasons. The kids all finished school and it's that strange period between school and work for the 17-year-old, camp for the 12-year-old, and camp for the five-year-old. So everybody's home. It's a bit of a fun, messy zoo. And also the writer's room started again. So we are neck deep in season two of Wytches...
2024-06-14
04 min
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Newsletter #184: My Trip to the DC Cinematic Universe
Hey guys, it's Scott.It is Wednesday, May 15th. Forgive the sound of the rain in the background. It is raining hard here. You can probably hear it drumming on the glass. I wanted to do a post about my trip to Metropolis because so many of you have asked about it. Obviously, there's a lot I can't say. Most of what I learned and saw and experienced I can't talk about. But I wanted to at least tell you what I could because it was awesome. And before we start, a couple bits of housekeeping. One...
2024-05-15
10 min
The Oblivion Bar: A Comic Book Podcast
INTERVIEW: Scott Snyder
Joining us this week on the show is the Eisner-Award-winning writer of titles like American Vampire, Wytches, Nocterra, Undiscovered Country, Batman: The Black Mirror, Justice League, DC’s Dark Nights: Metal, Clear, The Wake, Swamp Thing, Barnstormers, and an epic five-year run on Batman that includes the creation of The Court of Owls.More recently, he’s been working on titles like Arcbound with co-creators Tom Hardy/Frank Tieri/and Ryan Smallman, Canary with artist Dan Panosian, Duck and Cover with artist Rafael Albuquerque, Nocterra with Tony Daniel, and has re-teamed up with his Black Mirror partner Francesc...
2024-05-06
1h 43
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Newsletter #183: Healthy Competition
Hey guys, it's Scott.It is Friday, May 3rd, and I can't believe it. It is Free Comic Book Day tomorrow and Star Wars Day and it is Quinn's birthday. He is turning five, which I cannot believe. I still remember posting that we were pregnant with him. So he was born on May the Fourth in a year where that not only was Star Wars Day, but it was Free Comic Book Day. And so I always joke that he'll either be, like, the second coming of the Nerd King or he'll hate geeky things for...
2024-05-03
07 min
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Newsletter #182: Scripting for Artists
Hey guys, it's Scott.It is Monday, April 15th, and it is full spring here in New York. You can probably hear the birds and such behind me. I'm outside trying to get some fresh air after a long, gray winter. So a quick bit of housekeeping. We're going to do a class in a couple weeks. I'm still deciding on the subject, but I'm thinking about doing something that's like, twist endings. I was thinking about twists. What do you guys think? Let us know in the comments here. I think it'll be a lot of...
2024-04-15
12 min
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Newsletter #180: Please Excuse the Interruption
Hey guys, it's Scott.It is Friday March 22nd already, I can hardly believe it. And I want to apologize, I was going to do this really big post about the 38th anniversary of the release of The Dark Knight Returns, a book that was so seminal in my own creative trajectory, but Quinn got sick at the beginning of the week and has been home all week. He's better today but he did not make it to school. And then I had plans to do a post that was going to be about working around life...
2024-03-22
02 min
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Sign up for tomorrow's Comic Writing class on ACTION SCENES!
Hey guys, it's Scott.And I just wanted to make a very quick reminder that tomorrow night, Wednesday, March 13th, at 9.30pm EST, we're going to be doing our live comic writing class, Comic Writing 101, now 102, and our subject is going to be action scenes. I'm really excited about it. Come join the fun. You can still sign up. It's only seven bucks a month. And you get access to all of our classes we've done so far, all 20 plus. In our video archive, you can chat with us. And yeah, we're going to be looking at...
2024-03-12
00 min
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Newsletter #179: Action-Packed!
Hey guys, it's Scott.It is Friday, March 8th. And what a week! I finished the season finale episode of Wytches season one, episode 108, and handed it in. So season one is a wrap in terms of writing. I wrote the pilot (101) and 108, and the other episodes came out phenomenally well. We have an incredible team. I have a great co-showrunner, Marion Dayre, fantastic writers like Jeff Howard and Harrison Rivers and Bornilla Chatterjee. And Ty, the best assistant, will put all of their socials and things here so you can follow them. But yeah, I can’t...
2024-03-08
10 min
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Newsletter #178: You Are a WRITER.
Hey guys, it's Scott.It is Friday, March 1st (when I recorded this). Where did February go? Who the hell knows. But I'm sorry I didn't do a post last week. My schedule got a little bit blown up because full disclosure, the big Christmas present this year for our two older boys, Jack and Emmett, 17 and 12 years old, was tickets to a Drake and J. Cole concert in the city. They're both big fans and we were really excited to go. But a few weeks ago, the concert date got moved unexpectedly to a day they...
2024-03-04
12 min
Our Best Jackett
Newsletter #177: Editing Things Down
Hey guys, how are you doing?It's Scott. It is Friday, February 16th. I'm sorry I missed Tuesday. It's been a week of family chaos here. Our babysitter has the flu, so there's a lot of kids schedule juggling. And then on top of it, my sister is actually delivering her second child as we speak! So I'm going to be an uncle again to another beautiful niece. I am very excited, but it's been a lot of family energy this week. Also, it was a very exciting week to take a full look back at the...
2024-02-17
07 min
Our Best Jackett
Newsletter #176: What is Tonality?
Hey guys, it's Scott.It is Friday, February 9th. I hope you're having a good one. And thank you for all the support for that post I made last time. I didn't realize it would get such a reaction, but I also got a lot of concerned people asking me if somebody had been attacked online or if somebody was going through something. And I just wanted to clarify that really, no, it was going down there and talking with people on a human level about my own stresses of parenthood and hearing theirs and just remembering...
2024-02-09
09 min
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Newsletter #175: Creators Are People
Hey guys, it's Scott.It is Wednesday, February 7th. I meant to do this yesterday, but I was just too beaten up from the traveling. I get too old now for recovering from a con quickly. But I just wanted to say thank you to everybody that came out at MegaCon. It was a blast. I forget how huge and Orlando-sized that convention actually is. It's amazing. Incredible cosplay, incredible fans, organizers, everybody. It was great. And I just wanted to say special thanks to all the Best Jacket members who came up and talked about the...
2024-02-07
06 min
Our Best Jackett
Newsletter #174: Vampires Don't Sparkle
Hey guys, it's Scott.And it is Tuesday, January 30th. And I wanted to do a very quick post today just as a two-question Tuesday, and also mostly as a housekeeping post, because we have a couple of really exciting things coming up. First and foremost, Thursday night, just in two days, on February 1st at 9:30pm EST, we are doing our first class on horror. It'll be kind of an intro to horror in comics. And so I'll talk a little bit about the tradition of horror and comics, but mostly it'll be a craft lesson...
2024-01-30
10 min
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Newsletter #172: The First Pages
Hey guys, it's Scott.It is Tuesday, January 23rd, and I am so sorry that I've been so off-radar, but it snowed like an arctic planet here, like Hoth, and everything iced over, and we had a four-year-old who actually had the flu and was home from school, and then we had a 16 year-old who got sick, and Jeanie got sick, and it was a whole mess. But everybody's better now, and although my back still hurts from shoveling, we're up and running again. And also, this is the very last week of the Zoom writer's room...
2024-01-23
11 min
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Newsletter #171: New Year, Old Priorities
Hey guys, it's Scott.It is Thursday, January 4th, although you will hear this on Friday, January 5th, because it's late and I am driving back from a fantastic dinner with brother James Tynion IV. His birthday was last week or so, and my birthday is in a week and a half. And so we have kind of a tradition now and then of trying to get together and have dinner, the two of us, and catch up.It was fantastic. He's got so many great plans for Spectrograph at DSTLRY and all his great...
2024-01-05
12 min
Our Best Jackett
Newsletter #170: The Barbell Effect
Hey guys, it's Scott.It is Friday, December 15th. My God, it is 10 days away from Christmas and I can't believe it. Our house is all a frenzy. We have our tree, we're all set, we're waiting on packages. Our 16-year-old is still in finals hell. Our 12-year-old is glued to social media to see if the Yankees get this amazing Japanese pitcher, Yamamoto. And our 4-year-old is obsessed with the Christmas elf and 80s video games. All of a sudden, like, Rampage is his new favorite game because we have an arcade downstairs with a Library...
2023-12-16
06 min
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Newsletter #168: The Comic Book Palace
Hey guys, it's Scott.It is Wednesday, December 6th. Jeez, we're getting so close to Christmas and the end of the year, I can't even believe it! I am going down to sign your books, if you were a Black Jackett member, in just like, 10 days. So please, please send them (and send them express) to the address listed here by the best assistant, Ty.Ship books to: Comic Sketch Art c/o Best Jackett5438 Lockwood Ridge Rd. #173 Bradenton FL 34203 Please put the following information on the back of each backer boar...
2023-12-06
08 min
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Newsletter #167: Season's Greetings!
Hey guys, it's Scott.And it is Friday, December 1st. My God, we're in December, I can't believe it. I'm so sorry, I feel like I missed a big chunk of November with this, or at least a couple weeks. But I will explain, and I'm really excited to get back into it. We have tons of stuff coming up. Just for housekeeping, Black Jacket members—please, please send your books ASAP using the info that Ty is posting here:Ship books to: Comic Sketch Art c/o Best Jackett5438 Lockwood Ridge Rd. #173 Brade...
2023-12-01
15 min
Our Best Jackett
Newsletter #166: Hanging On and Letting Go
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit bestjackettpress.substack.comHey guys, it's Scott.It is Friday, November 10th, and I'm all alone. It's just me. Tyler, great assistant, is away in the UK for Thought Bubble and for a much-needed vacation. If you're anywhere near Harrogate this weekend in England, go by, check out Thought Bubble. It is genuinely one of my very favorite conventions in the world. It's so sincere and dedicated to the craft and to comics as an industry, and it supports the arts in...
2023-11-11
12 min
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Newsletter #165: Nostalgia vs. Progression
Hey guys, it's Scott.It is Tuesday, November 7th and I am back from Ireland. Thank you all for the kind words about the trip and the well wishes. It was very, very quick. I think I said so online, but just in case, the reason we keep going over here is my wife Jeanie and I bought an old farmhouse here about a year ago on a whim, it's definitely one of our crazier decisions. But we've always loved it over there and her ancestry is from there and we just love the whole area. And...
2023-11-07
11 min
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Newsletter #164: Back in the Writer's Room
Hey guys, it's Scott.It is Thursday, October 26th, and witches are in the air in all kinds of ways because Halloween is right around the corner. I can't wait. Quinn has four different costumes at this point. He could be Sully from Monsters, Inc., Buzz Lightyear from Toy Story, Batman, of course, because, you know, every kid should be. And a ghost, also, which is just a sheet which he is contemplating. It's a very basic, stripped-down, DIY costume. So we'll see. Who knows? I'll send pics. But also, because our writer's room is back! The...
2023-10-26
07 min
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Newsletter #163: Taking a Big Swing
Hey guys, it's Scott.It is Friday, October 20th, and my voice is finally coming back. All my human parts are alive again. And I'm just sort of so excited by everything that happened in New York Comic Con. I'm going to talk about it in a minute. Not the con itself, but what I think it speaks to at this moment in comics. My sister's birthday is tomorrow on the 21st, along with one of my great friends, Scott Tuft, who did Severed, a deep-cut book from Image early in my career.And it...
2023-10-20
19 min
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Newsletter #162: Another NYCC in the Books!
Hey guys, it's Scott.It is Tuesday, October 17th. This is the voice you get two days after New York Comic Con. Yesterday it was way worse. I’m always like, “do I sound like Batman kids?” And they were like, “no, you sound like an old man who fell down in the street.” But all my moving parts are starting to move again today, I feel a little bit more human. But it was a fantastic time. Before I get into it, a couple of quick bits of housekeeping. One, Thank you, thank you, thank you to everybo...
2023-10-17
08 min
Our Best Jackett
Newsletter #161: A Best Jackett New York Comic Con!
Hey, guys, it's Scott.It is Tuesday, October 10th. Forgive the plunking sounds. I'm standing under a big tree to escape some children in the house and it is full of acorns falling from a great height. So if you hear me get clocked by an acorn, just bonus content, I guess, right?First things first, make sure to buy and read By a Thread #1 on Comixology! This is the book I created with my son Jack and artist Valeria Favoccia. It’s got gorgeous colors by Whitney Cogar and Best Jackett mainstays on the pr...
2023-10-10
10 min
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Newsletter #159: Two Question FRIDAY!
Hey guys, it's Scott.It is Friday, September 29th. We’re getting closer and closer to New York Comic Con, just two weeks away. So, for Black Jackett members, we have our dinner all set up. I'm really excited. A lot of people are coming, so I'll try and have some special guests and set up some surprises. But also, if you're a paid Best Jackett member, come by any solo signing I'm doing at New York Comic Con. I'm going to post my schedule later this next week and the first 10 to 15 minutes of every solo si...
2023-09-29
08 min
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Newsletter #156: What Makes a Good Batman Story?
Hey guys, it's Scott.It is Friday, September 15th. I can't believe we are halfway through September. My God. The kids are fully in school, we're back in that routine, and there's part of me that's kind of sad about it. I miss them. I mean, as much as I was ready for them to go back to school, I miss having them around the way they were over the summer. And they're always stressed about this test or that quiz. I was helping Emmett with a quiz up until late last night about how you measure...
2023-09-15
12 min
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Newsletter #155: Your Local Comic Shop and You
Hey guys, it's Scott.It is Tuesday, September 12th. Forgive my voice, I have ‘cotton voice.’ I'm not sick at all, I just talk way too much at these conventions and then usually lose my voice. But Baltimore was fantastic. I wanted to start by just thanking everybody that came out. There were so many people from Our Best Jackett, free subscribers, paid subscribers. It really warmed my heart. Thank you for coming up and saying hello. I really appreciate it. And at this point in my career to show up and be welcomed like that, see line...
2023-09-12
15 min
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Newsletter #154: My Mental Health Journey
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit bestjackettpress.substack.comHey guys, it's Scott.It is Wednesday, September 6th, and for the first time in many, many weeks, I have this house all to myself. It is a very strange and wondrous feeling. The kids, our children, hopefully yours too, are back in school. I have loved having this summer with them, but by the end, I was just like, “please take these children.” And they're gone. And so today I can pad around the house in my boxers befo...
2023-09-06
13 min
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Newsletter #152: Life's One Big Gamble
Hey guys, it's Scott.It is Tuesday, August 8th, and I am back from my trip with my 16 year-old and 12 year-old to L.A., to Vegas, and everywhere in between. I am completely wiped. We got back at like 2 to 3:00 in the morning last night, but I am crazy excited to dive back into work and to things with you guys and we have great stuff ahead. So a quick bit of housekeeping. Tomorrow night, Wednesday at 9:30pm EST, we're gonna do a mini-class. I wanted to do this big class called How to Write a Superhero...
2023-08-09
11 min
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Newsletter #151: Be Flexible, Yankees!
Hey guys, it's Scott.It is Tuesday, the 1st of August, I cannot believe July is over. Last month of summer coming, crazy. I'm taking our older boys, Jack and Emmett, on a father-son trip at the end of next week out to LA and surprise them with a little bit of a trip to Vegas, they've never been anywhere near the desert so it should be fun and extremely hot, but wish us luck. Anyway, I wanted to do a quick post today. I like the habit of doing Tuesdays and Fridays the best I can...
2023-08-01
13 min
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Newsletter #150: A Pro's Guide to Comic Conventions
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit bestjackettpress.substack.comHey guys, it's Scott.It is Saturday, July 29th and I finally recovered from San Diego. I'm old, and long flights like that and massive energetic weeks of no sleep and work and play, I don't recover from them like I used to. So you can still hear it in my voice. But a couple bits of housekeeping and then I'll dive in. Today I'm going to do a free post and then a post for paid subscribers essentially...
2023-07-29
14 min
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Newsletter #149: Book Clubs & SDCC Schedules
Hey guys, it's Scott.It is Wednesday, July 12th, and San Diego is upon us, I can't believe it. So some housekeeping things quickly. We have our first Book Club tonight, it's going to be just a sort of test run, I'm really excited about it. It's on the Discord server for paid subscribers, and we're going to be looking at “The Boogeyman” by Stephen King, one of my absolute favorite short stories. We're going to do this once a month and the class once a month, so we're going to have something every two weeks. We'll usua...
2023-07-13
08 min
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Newsletter #148: The Current State of Superhero Comics
Hey guys, it's Scott.It is Sunday, July 9th, although you'll hear this probably on Monday, because I wouldn't make Ty, great assistant, transcribe something on the weekend. But I'm sitting in my car, you can probably hear the rain. I just finished this podcast from the Wall Street Journal. The Journal is also their podcast, but they have a four-part series called With Great Power. And it's kind of a history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and it's got interviews with a lot of key people at Marvel and DC—Brian Bendis and people at the st...
2023-07-10
16 min
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Newsletter #146: We Have a WEB STORE!
Hey guys, it's Scott.It is Tuesday, June 27th. And, man, I can't believe June is almost over. I know I say it every month, but I still can't believe it. So, very quick housekeeping stuff. We're really excited. We have a BRAND NEW WEBSITE!It is powered by the great Third Eye Comics down in Maryland, one of my favorite stores in the world. And so it's all new, it's redone, you can order all of our books that we have in print at this point from them, and you'll be ordering through Third...
2023-06-27
11 min
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Newsletter #144: Father and Son
Hey guys, it's Scott.It is Tuesday, June 20th. I hope you had a great Father's Day, got to celebrate Juneteenth, all that. Over here it was really fun, actually. I took Emmett to his last baseball game of the intramural team, we're going to try out for a travel team soon. He did great, his batting average is 1000. He walked half the times he was up at bat and then hit the other half, so I was very proud of Em and he's super into it.Then the kids took me out to lunch...
2023-06-21
07 min
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Newsletter #143: #ComicsBrokeMe
Hey guys, it's Scott.It is Tuesday, June 13th, and before we start a quick bit of housekeeping. We're going to be starting a Book Club over on our paid subscriber Discord, I’m very excited about it. It's gonna be hosted by Noah Abbatemarco, one of the people that runs Our Best Jackett with Ty (greatest assistant). The first story that we're going to be reading is ‘The Boogeyman’ by Stephen King, one of my absolute favorites of all time. It's the first short story that really scared me to death when I read it. That and Pe...
2023-06-14
13 min
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Newsletter #142: Unchained Melody
Hey guys, it's Scott.It is Wednesday, June 7th, and as I make this recording I am driving to Emmett's very first baseball game. He made the team! We’re really excited, he's excited and nervous, as am I, of course. He's listening to his headphones in the back. But I think he's going to do great, wish us luck, it’s that parent’s butterflies in your stomach, total anxiety but also real pride and excitement. This is something that he learned to do well over the last three years when he didn't know how to do it...
2023-06-07
08 min
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Newsletter #141: Endings & Beginnings
Hey, guys, it's Scott.It is Tuesday, May 30th, but you will probably hear this on Wednesday, May 31st because it is late. It's my fault, not Tyler's, the greatest assistant ever. Full disclosure, Emmett has a chance to try out for a baseball team tomorrow and I was setting that up this afternoon. He's really excited. He's never really played on a team before and it might not go well, who knows, but his super close friend is on the team and Emmett has been maniacal about practicing baseball over the last year. We go out...
2023-05-31
17 min
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Newsletter #140: The Forever Machine
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit bestjackettpress.substack.comHey guys, it's Scott.And it is Tuesday, May 23rd. I know it's the 23rd because it is our middle son's birthday. Emmett is twelve today. I can't believe that he’s twelve, he's still such a boy. It's like that magical age where they haven’t really hit adolescence quite yet. They still have those friendships with like, all video games and Nerf gun fights and all that. It's like that Stand by Me age that I just love...
2023-05-24
10 min
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Newsletter #139: Hyrule Film Fest
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit bestjackettpress.substack.comHey guys, it's Scott.It is Tuesday, May 16th. God, it’s flying by. And I'm really excited because we have class on Thursday night, just two days away. Comic Writing 102, we're going to be using some amazing student work and some published work—some Star Wars comics and some movies and other things because our topic is world building, which is a crucial one, one we get asked a lot about. So this class will be all about how...
2023-05-17
08 min
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Newsletter #138: Don't Overthink It!
Hey guys, it's Scott.It is Friday, May 12th, and first I just wanted to say thank you to everybody that showed up for that Ask Me Anything on Wednesday night, it was such a blast! We went way over, I think, like almost an hour and a half plus, because your questions were so good. I have to do more of those! And I'll try and invite on special guests too, like maybe Tony Daniel or other people that I've worked with, Francis Manapul, it'd be fun. Remember, you can watch this and all...
2023-05-13
05 min
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Newsletter #136: Back in the Traffic Lane!
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit bestjackettpress.substack.comHey guys, it's Scott.It is May 3rd, Wednesday, although you probably won't hear this till May 4th, Star Wars Day and Quinn's fourth birthday, his real birthday. We had his party last week with a lot of trampolining and bouncy housing and cupcakes and all kinds of stuff. But he was born on both Free Comic Book Day and Star Wars Day when those things overlapped and all the planets aligned, the geek worlds. And I was convinced...
2023-05-04
11 min
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Newsletter #135: Death of the Rejection
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit bestjackettpress.substack.comHey guys, it's Scott.It is Tuesday, April 25. Forgive my voice, this is the voice of a tired dad. Quinny has been going through a bit of a nightmare phase, like literal nightmares, and they're all hilarious and ridiculous where he'll just like, yell something out in the middle of the night like, “Let go my waffle, Emmett!” and then I run in there to see if he's okay and then he's already asleep, but then I'm awake and I ca...
2023-04-26
13 min
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Newsletter #134: How to Handle Rejection
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit bestjackettpress.substack.comHey, guys, it's Scott.It's Tuesday, April 18th, and forgive me if the sound quality is a little bit different than usual. I'm doing the same thing I did last time and trying to walk my body across Planet Earth a tiny bit before everything contracts into the Zoom contours for this writers room. But the room is going really well. We finished breaking the structure of season one and now we're getting into the episode breaks. So before...
2023-04-19
07 min
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Newsletter #133: Stopping by the DSTLRY
Hey guys, it's Scott.It is Friday, April 14th and I am making this recording as I'm walking through my neighborhood down to the beach just to move my body across the earth out in the air, in the sunshine, and actually feel things outside of the Phantom Zone of a Zoom room. But it's been an incredible two weeks in the room. We actually broke all of season one of Wytches. So we’re really head-spinning, really excited and proud of the work that was done there. The show is twisted and imaginative and dark and he...
2023-04-14
11 min
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Newsletter #132: Persistence as a Virtue
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit bestjackettpress.substack.comHey guys, it's Scott.It is Wednesday, April 12th, and I'm sorry I missed last week doing a post. It's been crazy. We had our first week of the Wytches writers room and it was pretty incredible, honestly. We made way more progress than I thought. We're breaking the first season right now, so we're sort of restructuring things to make sure that the eight-episode season really feels strong. And the people in the room have just come up...
2023-04-12
09 min
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Newsletter #131: How Was Your C2E2 2023?
Hey, guys, it's Scott. It is Tuesday, April 4th, and forgive the sort of hungover, worn-out sound of my voice. It's been a long three days, but a great three days. I'm just tired, I'm not hungover, I swear. Also forgive the sound, I accidentally left my phone in Chicago at this convention, or in the car on the way to the plane, and didn't realize it until I stepped out of the car and was listening to music and then suddenly it died in my AirPods and then it was too late and I couldn't get it back...
2023-04-04
11 min
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Newsletter #130: Chicago Bound!
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit bestjackettpress.substack.comHey guys, it's Scott.It’s Wednesday, March 29th. I can't believe it's almost the end of the month and I am functioning on like, two hours of sleep two nights in a row because Quinny has a raging ear infection. The craniotomy he had when he was six months old makes him more susceptible to these kinds of infections and he is not a well dude right now, I feel terrible for him. He's like, wandering around and he...
2023-03-29
12 min
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Newsletter #126: Everybody Have Fun Tonight
Hey guys, it's Scott.It is Monday, March 13th, and I wanted to do a quick post because I didn't get a chance to do one on Friday. Jeanie, my wife, is away at SXSW with her very good friend (who's our neighbor) and their kid who’s really interested in film. So I got to go away with our 16 year-old, as you know, to Colorado a couple weeks ago and so I thought it would be fun for her to take a trip for a couple days and go explore Austin. So as you can imagine th...
2023-03-13
09 min
Our Best Jackett
Under Pressure (Part 2)
Hey, guys, it's Scott.It is Tuesday, March 7th, I can't believe the month is going this fast. I say that every time, but I feel like the Earth is just spinning faster and faster every day. Anyway, a couple quick housekeeping things before I dive into your questions. Tomorrow, Wednesday the 8th, out from Dark Horse Comics, is Clear #1. It's an oversized massive issue, it's the beginning of a sci-fi noir series that I did with co-creator and great friend Francis Manapul. It's about a future where we all connect to the internet neurologically and can ‘sk...
2023-03-07
08 min
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Newsletter #124: Under Pressure (Part 1)
Hey guys, it's Scott.It is Friday, March 3rd, and I'm back from vacation. Thank you for being patient with me, I took my 16 year-old son Jack to Colorado and we went skiing, just the two of us. And things have been really stressful to be totally honest up to now with his school, and he had to practice SATs stuff, and just a lot, a lot of work on him. And to be able to get away and connect outside of the rut of like, “did you do your homework?” and “come on, we're going to be lat...
2023-03-03
11 min
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Newsletter #123: Snyder on Sequels
Hey guys, it’s Scott.It is Saturday, February 25th. Jack, our 16 year old, is taking the PSAT in his room, which is just totally shitty and I feel terrible for him. And then our 11 year old is at a sleepover at his close friend's house and Quinn is happily looking out the window at the snow. I am taking Jack on a quick father/son trip to Colorado tomorrow, we're gonna go skiing for a few days. He has next week off and Emmet does not, so Emmet is very angry about this, but I'm going to...
2023-02-25
11 min
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Newsletter #122: Zoom Monster!
Hey guys, it's Scott.Forgive me, I am walking outside so I'm using Airpods, so the sound might be a little bit off for this one. But it is Tuesday. I don't know the date, that's how crazy it is over here. But I was going to answer to your questions, Ty sent over a couple good ones. But first, there's a bit of housekeeping. Canary #5, the penultimate issue of the series, is out today from Comixology. We're really proud of this one. It's definitely one of the books that really pushes the boundaries of western and...
2023-02-22
08 min
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Newsletter 121: Snyders at Sea!
Hey guys, it's Scott.It is Friday, February 17, although this will probably go up on Saturday, February 18, because I wasn't able to record it earlier in the day. Apologies, Tyler (great assistant). But a couple quick housekeeping things before I get into the meat of this, but Monday (if you're on social media, you've probably seen us obnoxiously going on and on, but we really care about this one), is the final day to order Nocterra #12. It is the first issue of our third giant arc, it's easily our biggest and craziest yet and it's a great...
2023-02-18
12 min
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Newsletter #120: Revealing Batman's Greatest Love
Hey guys, it's Scott.It is Tuesday, February 14th. Happy Valentine's Day! I hope you're having a great day, whether you're celebrating with somebody or by yourself, but I hope you're absolutely going out there and celebrating your love of comics, the biggest love affair of your life, in some way. In all seriousness, I do hope you have a great day. I'm sending love from my family to yours. So this week, one tiny bit of housekeeping—Monday is the Final Order Cutoff for Nocterra #12.I made a little video about it. I won't ta...
2023-02-14
08 min
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Newsletter 119: WYTCHES Is Getting a TV Show!
Hey guys, it's Scott.It is Wednesday, February 8th. And I normally do these posts on Tuesday and answer two of your questions, which I will do at the end of this, but I wanted to wait a day because I got word yesterday that they were finally going to announce big news, some of the biggest news in my career—that in December, Wytches was greenlit by Amazon Studios and Plan B for their adult animation division to actually be on television in 2024. So I can't wait, it's something we've been working on behind the scenes fo...
2023-02-08
11 min
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Newsletter 118: What's So Funny About the New DC Studios Slate?
Hey guys, it's Scott.It is Friday, February 3rd. I can't believe it, it's my oldest kid's birthday. Jack turns 16 today, so I'm sort of losing my mind.But a tiny bit of housekeeping before I jump into today's post. So this coming Monday, February 6th, is the final day to order Clear #1. Again, it's a creator-owned book from me and Francis Manapul. It's a sci fi noir and it comes out from Dark Horse Comics. It imagines a future where everyone connects to the internet neurologically and can skin the world however they want...
2023-02-03
14 min
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Newsletter #117: Making Time to Write
Hey guys, it's Scott.It is Tuesday, January 31st. How did January already pass us by? I have no idea. Quick bit of housekeeping before we get to Two Question Tuesday. This coming Monday, January 6th, is the FOC (Final Order Cutoff) for Clear #1. This is a creator-owned book that I did with good friend and artist extraordinaire Francis Manapul. It's a sci-fi noir mystery that imagines a future where everybody connects to the internet biologically and can skin the world however they want through their own vision. So it's sort of a future in which everybody...
2023-01-31
08 min
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Newsletter 115: TH0UGHT5 0N M3GAN
Hey guys, it's Scott.It is Tuesday, January 17, and I want to thank you, first of all, for all of the really kind birthday wishes and notes and everything. I really, really appreciate it, I had a really good time. I went into the city with Jeanie and we went out to a nice dinner, which we never get to do.And then we saw a show called A Strange Loop right before it closed. It won the Tony for Best Musical, and it's a really searing portrait by Michael R. Jackson about growing up...
2023-01-17
09 min
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Newsletter #113: How I Pitched to DC Comics
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit bestjackettpress.substack.comHey guys, it's Scott.And it is Sunday, January 8th (at the time of recording). It is Elvis Presley's 88th birthday today, wherever you are, king of rock and roll. I hope you enjoyed it, go listen to some Elvis if you can today, Ty will put a couple of posts here some of my favorite songs:Hope you guys had a great weekend! Happy New Year, again. A couple quick housekeeping things. We have Book of...
2023-01-09
10 min
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Newsletter #112: My 2022 Favorites
Hey guys, it's Scott.It is Tuesday, January 3rd. Huge Happy New Year to all of you! I hope you had a great one, happy and healthy, and you were surrounded by people that you love. Over here, we had a good one. A great one, really. We went over to our neighbor's house for a small New Year's Eve party and at about 9:30 I took Quinny home and my mother-in-law was going to watch him once I got him to sleep so I could go back to the party. And every night when I'm putting him...
2023-01-04
06 min
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Newsletter #111: Three(!) Question Tuesday
Hey guys, it’s Scott.And it is Tuesday, December 27th. We are completely Christmas cookie’d out at our house. It was a tremendous amount of fun with the boys, even when it was a lot.When you have three kids, by the third kid, you know don't get any toys for the little guy that makes noise. But he got a karaoke microphone and he got a little keyboard and all kinds of stuff that amplifies the sounds he makes around the house, which is both hilarious and also totally frustrating at times. But...
2022-12-28
08 min
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Newsletter 110: Our Best Christmas
Hey guys, it's Scott.It is December 24th. It is Christmas Eve and I am on my way to the all-night pharmacy to get antibiotics for Quinny, who suddenly developed an ear infection in the middle of Target while we were getting last minute things, but he's okay. And then I'm picking dinner up and then I'm going home. And I spent the morning watching Cheers, which is my favorite show of all time.I used to watch it every night with my parents at 11 o'clock on Channel 11 WPIX growing up in New York City...
2022-12-24
04 min
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Newsletter 109: Jetlagged Q&A!
Hey guys, it's Scott.It is Tuesday, December 20th, I can't believe it's so close to Christmas! Happy Hanukkah to everybody that celebrates. I am back from Florida as of just a couple hours ago.I am jetlagged. I flew down on Sunday night basically on a redline. I got in after midnight and went to CGC headquarters, which is a sight to behold, in Tampa, FL. I met up with brother Greg Capullo and Tony Daniel and Charles Soule and Ryan Browne and Jon Glapion.And we signed a ton of books...
2022-12-20
07 min
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Newsletter #106: Black Jackett Love & Baseball
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit bestjackettpress.substack.comHey guys, it's Scott.It's Tuesday, December 6 and I'm back from California. First, I just wanted to say thank you so much to everybody across the whole Golden State that was so kind to me and my 11 year-old son, Emmett, on this short but amazing trip out there. I haven't taken him on a trip like this before. I've taken his brother, Jack, who's fifteen. I took him to England, I've taken him a couple times on father/son...
2022-12-06
15 min
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Newsletter 105: Disneyland LLC
Hey guys, it's Scott.It's Tuesday, November 29th, and I just wanted to make a quick post. I'm going to be doing this more often now where instead of just posting once a week, with half the posts free and half the post paid, we're going to try and throw up more stuff for you on the site. We're going to do this thing, just trying it out, but a post on Tuesdays where I’m gonna answer two of your questions that you've been posting in the comments that you've been asking in DMs, things that an...
2022-11-29
09 min
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Newsletter 104: Beyond 280 Characters
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit bestjackettpress.substack.comHey guys, it’s Scott.It's the Friday after Thanksgiving. And I just wanted to do a quick post to give you an update on upcoming things and how I want to reframe using this site, given everything that's been going on at Twitter and just general priorities. So the big headline is, I'm going to be using this a lot more. So I hope that you are enjoying the content. I hope that you are having fun as pa...
2022-11-26
13 min
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Newsletter #103: Floods & T-Bubbs
Hey guys, it's Scott.It is Friday, November 18, and I apologize for the quality of this one. We had a flood in our house, which I'll talk about in a second, and my microphone got destroyed, so I'm trying something different this time. But I thought I'd use this post as kind of a catch up, I intended to do an interview or two with some of my creator friends at Thought Bubble last weekend, But Tyler's flight to the convention got cancelled with no fault of his own, so it was just me and my kid...
2022-11-18
09 min
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Newsletter #102: Say Hi at Thought Bubble!
Hey guys, it's Scott.It is Tuesday, November 8, and before anything comic-related, I just want to urge you to go out and VOTE today. Vote your conscience, vote your heart, vote like democracy depends on it. But above all, just go out and vote. Exercise your right!So, really quick, this isn't an official newsletter, it's going to be very, very short because we're going to do a real one over the weekend when I'm in Thought Bubble with my son, Jack, our 15 year-old. The two of us are traveling there together, he's interested in...
2022-11-08
05 min
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11/2/22 102 Class 0 (Intro to Comic Writing 102) Archive
Hey guys, it’s Scott.I hope you all enjoyed our first Comic Writing 102 session! It was so great seeing all of you respond so well to the more in-depth breakdown and analysis we got to do, and I hope I clarified everything in the Q&A section! Getting to look back on one of my first stories through a critical lens was great experience, and one I hope you get to experience yourself during this semester!For anyone who joined us here for the first time, welcome! We do these classes every month with an...
2022-11-04
1h 41
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Newsletter #101: A Best Jackett Halloween
Hey guys, it's Scott.It is Halloween. It is Monday, October 31st. And I'm sorry I didn't do a post on Friday, but like I told you, we came back from Disney with the wheels off on this one with a couple of us sick and all kinds of stuff due for the kids, and so it was a bit of a mess. And getting ready for Halloween was equally messy. We were that family that was in Spirit of Halloween at, like, 7pm last night, when the only costumes left are like Sexy COVID Molecule and...
2022-10-31
10 min
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Newsletter #100: Your Best Jackett
Hey guys, it’s Scott.It's Tuesday, October 25th and I'm just back from Florida (late last night at 2:00 in the morning), so I am jet lagged yet again. But the trip was worth it, we went down there for family reasons and to visit Jack (our 15 year-old)’s best friend growing up, whose family moved down there when the boys were about eight/nine years old and they've stayed in touch and stayed very close. So it was a good trip to do, it was the only chance to do it. And I'll tell you this, thou...
2022-10-26
09 min
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Newsletter #94: Comics Are for EVERYBODY
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit bestjackettpress.substack.com[Sorry about the duplicate post from yesterday, that was an earlier draft that you can safely ignore! - Ty]Hey guys, it's Scott.It is Friday, September 9th, if we can get this post in today. And I'm really sorry for the delay between the last post and this one, it's just that we've been getting our boys back to school, we got three boys, all different schools, all different ages. We have a 10th grader who...
2022-09-10
15 min
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Newsletter 57: Our Best Chat-kett - Francesco Francavilla (Part 1)
Scott: Okay. All right, here we go. Francesco, I really appreciate you taking the time to do this, brother.Francesco: Thank you for having me!Scott: It's funny to talk to you in a formal way when you and I go so far back, and it's like, we just talked for half an hour as friends.Francesco: Right, right, right.Scott: I’ll just switch over now to interview mode. But yeah, I think the first thing I wanted to start with—and thank you also for being the first person that...
2022-03-11
14 min
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Newsletter #41: ANNOUNCEMENT: Get Your Books Signed w/ Subscription
[Disclaimer: The transcript is from a previous recording where the audio was corrupted, so the gist of it is the same, but the new audio is worded a bit differently. Please forward all complaints to me, Scott, who doesn’t want to get my assistant Tyler in any trouble…]Hey guys, it’s Scott.I just want to remind everyone that we’re pushing the class on 3-act structure to next Wednesday the 22nd at our usual time and place We were gonna do it this week, but plans had to be moved around because of this...
2021-12-14
05 min
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Newsletter #3: Be Batman
Okay here we go, right? Let's give this a shot!So, my name is Scott Snyder and I am recording in my studio, and this is going to be the format that we try out for this newsletter, where you can read it or you can listen to it almost podcast-style. I’m gonna do this at least a couple times a week. I’ll answer your questions probably one of those two times, the other time I’ll do teaching tips, talk about books I've been reading, things that have caught my eye, my own work, whatev...
2021-08-03
09 min