Category: Writer’s Blog

If you don’t recognize or remember the above quote, it’s from the end of Mad Max: Fury Road. Also, like Immortan Joe’s predecessor The Lord Humungus, I am gravely disappointed. Did I not make myself clear that you should see […]
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Now before I get started on this rant: referring to the situation Dawn and I were dealing with for the past few weeks as a “game” might be misleading, at least if you approach it from the sense that games are meant […]
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An old saying goes, “In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.” I may have brought it up before. It keeps echoing back in my head any time I attend a panel on writing or comics, or […]
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I’ll admit, physically Dawn and I have been feeling cruddy for the last few days. It’s like we’re getting the “con crud” ahead of the convention this time instead of after it. Still, I can reach over now and hold […]
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This modern age of ours has seen the dream of self-publishing become a plausible reality for more people than ever before. What’s been an interesting process for me this year is the discovery that “self-publishing” can represent offerings on several different levels, with […]
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In Understanding Comics, Scott McCloud talked about the concept of “closure” in relation to comics reading, which is more or less the idea of the audience filling in the blanks (or gutters) between drawn panels in order to complete the […]
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Last week I blew off steam ranting about some of the behind-the-scenes work involved in getting a webcomic from digital to print, particularly in terms of how different printers have their different requirements. But although I love to wallow in […]
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“You will.” No, I’m not Batman. I’m just a man involved in self-publishing, in the final stages of creating a 200 page trade paperback edition of Zombie Ranch after our successful Kickstarter, and man oh man am I sick of […]
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You know, Anton Chekhov actually considered some of his plays comedies, which is something to this day is hard for me to wrap my brain around. I’ve actually been in a production of The Seagull, the “comedy” where the rifle […]
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Sir Isaac Newton’s famous laws of motion dictate, amongst other observations, that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. This is why rockets work as they do, burning fuel that is focused to “push” in one direction and […]
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Oh, man. If you’re a webcomic author who has been cruising the social media in the last few days, chances are you’ve come across a volatile posting or reposting by a friend or someone in the business you follow warning […]
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If you’re unfamiliar with the folktale of “The Little Dutch Boy”, here’s a summary courtesy of the Encyclopedia Mythica: Dutch legend has it that there was once a small boy who upon passing a dyke on his way to school […]
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So look, believe it or not, Dawn and I are not saints. We have had our instances of playing it loose with the rules when it comes to conventions; for example, some have it in their exhibitor rules that rolling […]
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An interesting topic came up on a webcomic group the other day, which was all about fictional character names and how creators decide on them. The person who started the topic admitted that it was something that didn’t come easily to them, […]
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What would you say is the most effective armor in fiction? Power armor? Magical barriers? Superman’s invulnerable skin? Nah. It’s Plot Armor. The invisible, intangible protection awarded to characters and things that functions mainly by virtue of their importance to the […]
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The heading I chose here is perhaps more dramatic than this article warrants, but as an addendum to my Kickstarter posts I wanted to bring up something else that aspiring project creators out there may not be aware of. It […]
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Back in 2011 I wrote about how we as human beings are obsessed with stories about the way we End, i.e. apocalypses of various flavors, and particularly how those flavors have evolved over the decades in modern pop culture media as the nature […]
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A certain Princess of Alderaan once told her captors, “The more you tighten your grip… the more star systems will slip through your fingers.” Then her home planet got blown up. But I digress. The point I perhaps want to […]
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Okay, I know I promised myself I’d be making more posts about the Kickstarter experience while it’s still fresh in mind, but I feel this is more urgent. A public service message, even. If you haven’t yet gotten out to […]
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Before diving into this week’s thoughts I wanted to follow up from last week and report that the second volume of Molly Danger did, indeed, fail to reach its funding goal. When all was said and done Jamal Igle was […]
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