Category: Writer’s Blog

Are you self-centered? Take a moment to think about your answer. Even for the most empathic of us, I would venture to suggest that “feeling someone else’s pain” remains a figure of speech rather than anything literal. We make our […]
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In the throes of my March Madness this last month I was sitting one morning at my day job, sorting through paperwork, when a co-worker asked if “I was going”. After one of those long moments where you desperately sort […]
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“Karma owes us,” Dawn declared as we sat on an Alaskan Airlines jet waiting to take off from Burbank airport last Thursday. Somehow we’d managed to get everything together for our journey to Seattle, despite the last minute one-two punch […]
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I need to come right out and say it: Dawn and I make a good team. Don’t laugh, it’s something that we often forget, especially in the throes of a miscommunication in the face of approaching deadlines (“I told you he needed […]
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The next action-packed(?) installment on our schedule for March was WonderCon, which happened this last weekend at the Anaheim Convention Center. Exhibiting at WonderCon was actually a fairly late decision for us, since even though it moved down to our […]
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Much of the United States (and let’s not exclude nerds here because I personally know several who also happen to be basketball fans) knows of the term “March Madness” as referring to the men’s college basketball tournament that occurs every […]
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One of the things I find most fun about the zombie ranch concept is working out how similar (or in some cases, how different) they might be to a conventional livestock herd. Obviously close enough that Suzie’s daddy, the late Jonathan […]
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I think it was approximately a year ago that a certain trailer made the rounds amongst my zombie and video game loving friends. Everyone was out of their minds over this 3 minute video, a promotion for the upcoming game […]
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Right around the time we were starting up Zombie Ranch, Dawn and I became aware of a reality television show purporting to show how people might survive and thrive in the face of apocalypse. Not a zombie apocalypse, per se, […]
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On the comments for last week’s comic, an interesting point was brought up. Can’t all this potential violence be solved by just handing Zeke (or technically, the zombie-formerly-known-as-Zeke) over? Possibly. Seems like it could work. Will it be tried? That’s […]
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It may be very presumptive to expect anyone besides me to pay this much attention to the progression of the comic, but I wonder if anyone’s noticed that folks like Suzie and Frank don’t do things like say “ya” for […]
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You buy a ticket. Okay, that’s facetious, and for that matter easier said than done in the case of San Diego. In any case, I’m talking more about exhibiting. How do you elbow your way in to a spot on […]
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Ever heard the idea of the elevator pitch? If you’d rather not let Wikipedia enlighten you, I can summarize by saying that, well… it’s a summary. An elevator pitch (or elevator speech or statement) is a short summary used to […]
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As I’m writing this blog, it is Dawn’s birthday. When it publishes, her birthday will be past, and I hope I will have achieved a sort of extra present for her, which will actually be more of an absent than a […]
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So this week’s comic revealed that yes, Mrs. McCarty and her posse are responsible for the current smoky state of the Z Ranch. It’s entirely possible that this surprised no one. But you know, that’s okay. I find there’s entirely […]
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On the poll before the current one I asked y’all what your preference would be in the world of Zombie Ranch: the order and security of a Safe Zone, or the freedom and risk of the Wild Zones? With 61 […]
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Yeah, okay, that’s not much of a threat (or relief), is it? We’ve come to the end zone of 2011. There were ups and downs, but Zombie Ranch has persevered to its third print issue and fifth online episode. We […]
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Other comic authors, and aspiring comic authors, sometimes wonder about the topic of pacing their story. Occasionally they seek advice about it. Once in a very great while, I’m asked to give that advice. This is not really one of […]
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I guess I’ve had Ancient Romans on the brain lately. The previous comic referenced Juvenal’s famous passage regarding bread and circuses, and now with this comic I’ve been thinking back again on lines from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar: Let me have […]
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Writers tend to do a lot of research. I think we even take a perverse enjoyment in the activity. You might have gotten a hint of that after I spent most of my last blog giddily describing all the physical […]
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