Category: Writer’s Blog

By now a good chunk of folks in the United States are aware of the controversy surrounding our VP-Elect attending a performance of the musical Hamilton, and what happened after. It’s one of many controversies in the wake of Donald […]
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In America, it seems like the days are long past where you could start your career with a company and then, after years of loyal service, retire from that same company decades later. Nowadays it’s all about “At Will” employment, which […]
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So, a few months ago I posted this blog entry: The Copyright Chronicles. In it I detailed my ongoing frustrations with what should have hopefully been a fairly straightforward process of officially registering a copyright with the U.S. government. I […]
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So, have you ever considered the phenomenon of phone usage in movies and tv shows? Notice how they rarely say “goodbye?” If not, here’s a handy video reference for you:     Crazy rude when you think about it, right? […]
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And if so, why aren’t they dreaming of electric cows? And what’s with the electricity, anyways? Okay, so I’m making a lame play on the title of Phillip K. Dick’s seminal novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? which the film […]
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I’m a bit of a history buff. I feel like it’s a good trait in a writer, and not just if you’re someone looking to set your tale in a former time and place. I think it’s good research into […]
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When Dawn read the script for this week she came to me with some confusion. She didn’t understand Frank bringing up Suzie’s dad. What prompted that? “Ah,” I replied. “In the previous panel Suzie is talking about how Eustace might still be […]
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Technically I might have wanted to delay this blog, for reasons that we’ve hinted at over the course of the comic but are due to bubble to the surface again soon. But hey, the aspect of generations is on my […]
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We don’t wear enough pith helmets these days. I’m not advocating more Steampunk cosplay, though if that’s your thing, fine. But after two years in a row wearing my pith helmet to Wasteland Weekend, Disneyland and other outdoorsy locales, I must […]
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I’m an unabashed fan of continuity in my entertainment. I like that immersive feeling of something that happened in an earlier installment coming back to importance in a later one. I like that Bojack Horseman has been dwelling in “Hollywoo” […]
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Dawn linked me a cartoon recently that I now can’t for the life of me find, so I’m going to do the worst thing possible and try to describe it to you from memory. A comics writer and artist team are hosting […]
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Have you ever heard of the old series of comic strips known as Goofus and Gallant? If not, you may have at least run across any number of homages and parodies based on it, such as the Dimwit and Duke […]
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Just around this time last year, I mailed off the required deposit copies of our Zombie Ranch trade paperback to the U.S. Copyright Office, seeking at long last for a formal registration. I figured with all the other milestones the […]
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It’s a weird feeling, going on a pure vacation trip after so many instances where travel was basically “for business”, i.e. hauling our stuff off to some convention or other. Only two bags each? One of them small enough for […]
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Okay, technically I’m not sitting on the beach as I type this. It’s right across the street, but for the moment I prefer the sanctity of closed doors and air conditioning. Hawaii in August is not suffocatingly hot on the […]
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[WARNING: MILD SPOILERS FOR “STRANGER THINGS” AND CURRENT MARVEL COMICS FOLLOW] You’re watching a long-running television show, or reading a book or comic full of well-established, beloved characters, and suddenly there’s an episode (or chapter or issue) where they start […]
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I am a child of the 1980s. I remember rotary phones, cassette tapes, televisions with “rabbit ear” antennae (and no remotes), and the freedom of a good bike to roam the neighborhood. I remember also a time when movie studios […]
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And so it has come to pass — after five long years of trying, your humble proprietors were finally able to make a return to the Big One, the San Diego Comic-Con, not just as attendees but as exhibitors. Each […]
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It shouldn’t come as any surprise that I’m all for portraying ladies as badasses, or comic relief, or any number of character types that we still to this day don’t see very much of in mainstream media in female form. […]
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I was in the shower on Monday when I heard Dawn start shouting. I couldn’t make out what she was saying but she sounded very agitated, and I shut off the water in a slight panic wondering if she’d seriously […]
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