Matthew Dow Smith

"Matthew Dow Smith absolutely knocks it out of the park again with another supernatural cozy read... - Kara S., Librarlan; on AMELIA SHADOWS AND, THE NEW HEAD GHOST "AMELIA SHADOWS AND THE NEW HEAD GHOST is the perfect middle-grade graphic novel." - Isla J., Librarian, on AMELIA SHADOWS AND THE NEW HEAD GHOST "A perfectly decent young comic...". - John, a guy on NetGalley, on AMELIA SHADOWS AND THE NEW HEAD GHOST

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That's about right.

I'm very lucky I work very, very fast.

An adorable little purple monster with big yellow eyes saying 'meep'

I can't believe it took me so long to start making kids comics, but I'm so happy I did.

I'm having an absurd amount of fun with this stuff.

The thing I've always said as that the things about our wiring that make it possible for us to make the things we do also make us very bad at doing "normal" kinds of jobs. Which is very not helpful.

It's a really, really not fun thing to realize. At least we are all talking about it more than we used to. I never want to discourage anyone, but people do need to know what they're getting into and plan for it.

The trick I'll tell you is to find a brush size that looks good to you and lock it. No matter how much you zoom in, it has to stay the same size. So you don't go insane with detail that no one will ever see when it's printed.

It's really tricky, though. Especially working digitally. Even the brush size number gives you very different results depending on the size of your canvas and the resolution.

For the record, I work print size at 600 DPI and my brushes tend to be set between 1 and 1.5.

WHICH MEANS NOTHING.

What Ale said. I second that.

This is the BEST FREAKING INTERVIEW EVERRRR!!!!

(It gets a little more complicated if you're just writing OR drawing a graphic novel. A team gets paid better combined than a single writer/artist on their own. No, I don't know why. But either way, it ain't that much. People in comics make a LOT less money than many people assume.)

This goes for American comics, too. Take what you think they make, halve it, then halve it again. And if they aren't working for the Big Two, halve it again. And to be brutally honest, if they're writing and drawing graphic novels, halve it yet again.

Do you see this design? It's so cute. What are you waiting for?

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Wooooo!

Happy Birthday!

Thank youuuu! I have so much fun with the Amelia stories.

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AMELIA SHADOWS AND THE NEW HEAD GHOST!!!

Thanks, Megan!

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Happy Birthday!!!

I need every single male artist that follows me to read this. It's not very long. You need to bear witness to this shit. You have to see it with your own eyes because you never will in your everyday life.

I'm serious, read it all please

Appreciate you!

I follow their YouTube channel, and I highly recommend it. Some great interviews. And the whole Yeti team are great. They've been so supportive of me and my work.

I want to live there. Like, forever.

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I'm not sure there really needs to be a documentary about a movie that's more than twice as long as the movie it's about, but if it's about one of the Alien movies and @shudder.com is gonna have it up, then I'm going to watch it. All four and a half hours of it.

Happy Birthday, Ben!

Amelia Shadows has never had what you might call a “normal” childhood. For one thing, her dad’s the most powerful dark magician in the world. And for another, she’s spent her entire life in a house filled with ghosts and monsters and incredibly dangerous magical objects! As far as Amelia’s concerned, her life’s actually pretty cool. When Amelia and her cat, Clara, aren’t having adventures or dealing with dimensional portals in the pantry, she’s learning to be a dark magician, just like her dad, with the help of a ghost tutor named Gustave. You’d think a ghost tutor named Gustave would be pretty fun, but he’s actually pretty boring. And if a boring ghost tutor wasn’t bad enough, now Amelia’s dad has hired another ghost to oversee things, Hans. Which wouldn’t be that bad, except Hans has very strong opinions about how things should be around the house. This new head ghost has got to go, and Amelia may have a surprising ally… Magic and mischief and a life lesson or two from Matthew Dow Smith, creator of DC’s Misfits of Magic and Maverick’s The October Girl.

IN ONE MONTH!

AMELIA SHADOWS AND THE NEW HEAD GHOST, the first book in my middle grade Amelia Shadows series!!

From me and @papercutzgn.bsky.social!!!

April 7, 2026!!!!

I'm absurdly excited!!!!

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Congratulations, Paul and Rachael! That is fantastic!!!

Thanks, my friend!