Ep 121: Michael Dante DiMartino

Michael Dante DiMartino, co-creator of Avatar: The Last Airbender
and author of Rebel Genius and its sequel, Warrior Genius, on
being obsessed with 50s art, how Avatar was pitched perfectly
wrong, writing art as magic, and starting to write by hand.


 


Michael Dante DiMartino Show Notes


The 2018 First Draft calendar


Kirsten Hubbard


William S. Burroughs


Beat poetry


Garfield (comic)


Bloom County (comic)


Abstract expressionism


Jackson Pollock


Mark Rothko


Willem de Kooning


Brian Konietzko, co-creator of Avatar: The Last Airbender


King of the Hill (TV show)


Beavis and Butthead (TV show)


Atomic Love


Family Guy (TV show)


Mission Hill (TV show)


Invader Zim (TV show)


Spongebob Squarepants (TV show)


Hayao Miyazaki


The Hero with 10,000 Faces by Joseph Campbell


Bill Moyer's video series, discussing The Hero’s Journey with
Joseph Campbell


G.I. Joe (animated TV show)


Leigh Bardugo (hear her First Draft episodes here and here)


Nickelodeon Animation podcast featuring Michael and Brian


Story by Robert McKee


My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok


The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand


"An Oral History of the Funniest Podcast Ever," Daily Beast
article featuring the quote from Scott Aukerman


Bottle Episode (what we called "box episodes")


The Fly episode of Breaking Bad


William James Royce


The Story Grid by Shawn Coyne


The Story Grid Podcast