Category: Writer’s Blog

As of Sunday evening, our first ever Kickstarter project closed out to new pledges, and was more successful than we could have hoped! Now to that statement I would say we went into things with a cautious pessimism, despite all […]
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This era we live in has produced some fantastic television, not to mention some fantastic comic book adaptations brought to that small screen. In fact I sometimes feel the only downside is that there’s just too much out there to […]
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I remember the very first part of Max Brooks’ Zombie Survival Guide was a chapter devoted to establishing the physical rules of his version of the zombie. Here’s what the zombie virus (Solanum)  does. Here’s how long, on average, it […]
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A couple of years ago I made a blog post about the practice of creators going back and “renovating” their webcomic, basically fixing up their early work with a new coat of polish matching their later efforts, and the pros […]
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We launched our Kickstarter this last Friday, a smidge later than originally planned but at least still within the window of time I proclaimed when I made my vow on Twitter: If you’re wondering why I put business lunch in […]
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It is my hope that we have our Kickstarter launched by the time the early birds read this on Wednesday. As I write this blog, we are very, very close to being ready, and it would be great to be […]
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I let the chains off the artist again. I know, I know, we should probably be doing nothing but promoting our upcoming Kickstarter, or our appearance at WonderCon this weekend, but it’s April Fool’s Day. I don’t think we’ve ever […]
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“Bags, bags, bags…” Dawn likes to watch various shows while drawing. As she was putting the finishing touches on the Issue 10 cover, she had chosen to binge watch Broad City. It is a funny show. But I’m not writing […]
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As I write this blog it’s March 17th here in these United States of America, otherwise known as St. Patrick’s Day, which is a day when we traditionally bust out a lot of Irish stereotypes (or what we mistakenly think […]
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Last week I gushed about the improvements of the 2015 Long Beach Comic Expo over previous shows bearing the name, but I want to bring up one aspect in particular again: the first ever presentation ceremony for the Dwayne McDuffie […]
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I haven’t done a convention review in awhile, but I think it’s time again. See, this past weekend was the Long Beach Comic Expo. The Long Beach Expo began as a smaller, early year adjunct to the Long Beach Comic […]
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So the Academy Awards happened. I haven’t watched the ceremony in years because it just no longer seemed relevant to me, often more of an exercise in money, politics, and prejudices than actual quality. Then again, my own prejudices swing […]
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There exists a military strategy maxim that is attributed to Prussian Field Marshal Helmuth von Moltke the Elder. In its original verbose form, it is translated as “No plan of operations extends with certainty beyond the first encounter with the […]
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So in the last month or so, Dawn and I started binge-watching Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. We held off for awhile, even after the first season became available on Netflix, due to all the bad buzz I kept hearing about […]
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Well, so, there’s an old proverb most commonly expressed as “You can’t have your cake and eat it, too”, basically meaning you can’t have something both ways, especially when both those ways are favorable to you. One of the concrete examples […]
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Here’s another in my series of posts about the flow of visual comic page navigation, so if you’ve been bored by the ones so far, then— well, truth be told I don’t think I’m stopping anytime soon, so I’ve got […]
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Last time I linked to three of our past pages and asked you folks what you thought of them in terms of fulfilling my ideas of word balloons being able to “lead the eye”. Response was pretty positive, but we […]
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Last week I talked about the idea that the placement of word balloons and captions in comics can actually be a very important storytelling element. Let’s take that even further. Have you ever noticed how they have the potential to […]
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I have it in my head, whether true or not, that every writer feels certain aspects of the craft come more easily to them than others. For some it’s effortlessly weaving intricate plotlines. Others have wonderful and memorable sensory descriptions spring readily to their fingers. […]
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I’m going to keep this installment of the blog somewhat short since we’re on our Holiday break, but I wanted to be sure to clue you guys in to a great article for your reading pleasure. Last week I discussed […]
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