Jim Zub discusses how the tabletop games of his youth sparked his creativity and gave him confidence, crucial skills he uses every day in his twin careers as a comic writer and teacher. Find Jim Zub at: www.jimzub.com @jimzub on Twitter Jim Zub is a writer, artist and art instructor based in Toronto, Canada. Over the past eighteen years he’s worked for a diverse array of publishing, movie and video game clients including Marvel, DC Comics, Disney, Capcom, Hasbro, Cartoon Network, and Bandai-Namco.
He juggles his time between being a freelance comic writer and Program Coordinator for Seneca College‘s award-winning Animation program.
His current comic projects include Avengers: No Road Home, a weekly epic event for Marvel’s Mightiest Heroes, Champions, Marvel’s team of teen superheroes fighting for the future, Dungeons & Dragons, the official comic series of the world’s most popular tabletop role-playing game, and Wayward, a modern supernatural story about teens fighting Japanese mythological monsters. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community Here it is, gang – My TEDx Talk video just went live!
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Thank you @TEDXStMary for this opportunity.#makecomics #DnD #TEDx #SenecaProud@Marvel @Wizards_DnD pic.twitter.com/8QKJJ8hX1h
— Jim Zub (@JimZub) June 4, 2019
May was such an insane month and I was really nervous as I pulled this presentation together while juggling everything else.
Now that it's done, I'm really glad I did it, but man-oh-man, it was stressful. I've done a bunch of public speaking, but never anything this personal.
— Jim Zub (@JimZub) June 4, 2019
