Category: Writer’s Blog

It was always my intention to portray the Huachucas as a sort of egalitarian concept of nastiness. It didn’t matter what race or gender you were, only that you were willing and able to do some very despicable things to your fellow […]
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Dawn and I have different ways we like to work. I tend to prefer to compose in silence, without distractions, while her sweet spot for drawing is to find something to put on the television that provides some background noise […]
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Where alternate history settings involving Earth are concerned, I have a bit of a compulsion, and I’m not sure how many others share it. One of the first things I do is look and see what happened to my hometown. Now since […]
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As you might be aware if you’ve ever checked out our creators page, Zombie Ranch is pretty damn close to what would be termed a “mom and pop” operation. If our computers have trouble, I’m the IT guy who fixes […]
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WARNING: PERSONAL INDULGENCE AHEAD. AND SOME MUSH. As I write this blog it is Tuesday, February 18th, and at the risk of invoking a heaping helping of “we don’t care” from the readership, I must mention this is a significant date. Nine […]
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That title sounds like something Buffy Summers or one of her “Scooby Gang” would have said back in her vampire slaying heyday, but basically I’m just feeling pleased to hear feedback from several readers that the Huachucas are freaking them out. […]
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I struggled for some time with a strange question, something only writers of fiction ever have to consider: should I have the Huachucas talk? So far in the course of the comic, they had been presented as a silent menace. […]
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Lewis Carroll knew one of the most fun things about being a writer. Occasionally, you get to just make up words. Well, with Carroll it tended to be more than just occasional, he made a downright habit of it. Probably […]
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The original Star Trek series was pitched by Gene Rodenberry as a wagon train in space. It’s a telling example of the fickle nature of entertainment executives that you’d be hard pressed to get any sort of Western series greenlit […]
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The Holiday Season is over, but I’ve been thinking on a certain aspect of Christmas Past just recently; the peculiar form my childhood belief in Santa Claus took. I was what you might call a precocious tyke, quite interested in science or […]
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I recall a review of Zombie Ranch from a couple years back that was not exactly glowing. The reviewer seemed to have two main complaints, one being that there was no opening narration to explain the setting, and the other […]
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Since we’re doing family holidays this week I’m not going to get very wordy with the blog, but I did want to bring up something interesting. Libraries. Obsolete, am I right? I mean, with the Internet and such, why go […]
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So a few weeks ago it suddenly hit me that Christmas Day and New Year’s Day would fall on Wednesdays this year, i.e. that day we do updates. I know, my powers of calendar are amazing. We’ve taken breaks during […]
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Last week I wrote some more words in regards to the Death of the Author concept. I remember when I first ran across it I had a knee-jerk negative response, because I’m a bit of a control freak like that […]
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So there’s a new review of the comic out, courtesy of the fine ladies over at Girls Like Comics. I thought the reviewer had some interesting things to say, particularly the notion that Zombie Ranch could be thought of as […]
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So here’s a weird thing for me to admit, seeing as I’m writing a comic that has a large pool of inspiration drawn from “reality television”: I’m not all that entertained by reality. What I mean by that is, when […]
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I consider myself an introvert. Honestly, I’m pretty damn sure I’m an introvert. On the other hand, I guess I’ve gotten to the point I fake being social pretty well. If you don’t mind the somewhat scratchy audio, I give […]
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It was only a couple years ago, and yet I may never forget the moment as long as I live. My extended family had gathered to celebrate the Holiday Season, which included my very young niece. One of the toys she […]
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If you’ve been following my ramblings here long enough, you might dimly recall a couple of rants I did back in the day on the subject of using “hard sell” tactics at comic conventions. There was my tamer version here, […]
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Expectations can definitely play a role in your reaction to a movie. The greater your excitement and hopes, the easier it is for a film to not meet them. Conversely, if you start off from a position of “This is […]
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