GMB Chomichuk

Writer / Artist

 

GMB Chomichuk is a Canadian writer, teacher, mixed media artist, graphic novelist and proud Winnipeger. He won the Manitoba Young Writers Award when he was 15. He won the Manitoba Book Award for Best Illustrated Book in 2011 for his graphic novel serial The Imagination Manifesto. He is the founder of Alchemical Press and is always on the lookout for literary oddities. He puts words and pictures together. Some people call that alchemy. He calls that comics.

You can follow me on twitter @gmbchomichuk , and see some of my work in progress at www.comicalchemy.blogspot.com. You can send comment and questions for Words are Pictures to imagination@alchemicalpress.com.

Words Are Pictures 1.8: Conventioning

WAP 1.8: Conventioning You made a comic. Bravo. You are holding a 22 page manifestation of your fears motivations and desires.  Good for you.  I mean that. You actually made something. Your wishes have become actions. Any creative person knows...

Words Are Pictures 1.7: Interview With Writer/Creator Justin Jordan

INTERVIEW: Writer/Creator: Justin Jordan - The Strange Talent of Luther Strode I had the good fortune pick up The Strange Talent of Luther Strode in December. Caught three issues all at once. My reaction to them was prompted by the issue 2 cover which called...

Words Are Pictures 1.6: Creative Vacation

I’ve been away from passion projects like this weblog, on a creative vacation and an actual vacation. Creative vacations are essential to my creative process. I reach a point, once a year  where to make any art of writing...

Words are Pictures 1.5: 22 Pages

  You’ve begun to develop a schedule of writing and art. You’ve accepted that even one word is progress. So you’ve been thinking about how to use what survives from an abandoned creative endeavor. If you’ve been doing your...

Words Are Pictures 1.4 Creativity in Seasons: Use What Survives

  If you’ve been doing your homework from last week then you have a good number of pages finished, a good number of ideas that are taking shape. Chances are you have found yourself on the edge of a...

Words Are Pictures 1.3: Even One Word Is Progress

WAP 1.3  Even One Word Is Progress. I am not an expert.  I made some books. People seem to like them. I am still making books and learning more with every page. You want to think that there is...

Words Are Pictures 1.2: Ideas Take Shape

Ideas Take Shape.  But only when you let them. All my ideas arrive to my subconscious in tiny abused parcels. Inside are disparate broken things with sharp edges and too many pieces.  I collect the ones I like best...

Words are Pictures – An Introduction

WAP vol 1.1 : An Introduction Words are pictures. They are pictures of ideas which we decode and allow to appear in our heads. They are magic.  We learn to see before we learn to speak. Put words and...