Category: Writer’s Blog

This time next week, Dawn and I should be down in San Diego, steeling ourselves for five straight days of showing off Zombie Ranch to any and all that might wander by Small Press K-4. We won’t be in the […]
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If you read my blog entry last week then you know I was a tad starstruck at the idea of being invited to speak on the same panel as someone like Neal Stephenson. I carried through with it in what […]
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This is one of those things I’m still trying to get used to. There’s my Hawaiian-shirted self up there as part of a panel of established professionals, discussing the merits and techniques of using violence as a storytelling tool. I’m […]
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The debate on writing vs. visual art in comics has probably been around for as long as there have been comics. I’ve already admitted that it’s possible to have a comic composed entirely of images, with no words attached… in […]
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It’s not much of a secret that in our household, Dawn is the much bigger anime/manga fan than I am. I would say I missed the era growing up that might have gotten me into it, but both Battle of […]
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Dawn and I both share a deep regard for cuteness where cuteness Should Not Be. She goes further than I do in finding abominations to be somehow adorable, cooing over such horrid things as lobsters, zombie horses, and of course, […]
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First off, thanks to everyone so far who voted in the “favorite character” poll. Suzie’s winning by a landslide, which is probably a good sign considering she’s our leading lady, but I’m glad to see the rest getting a handful […]
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Am I allowed to shout that without being on a golf course? Do they still shout that on golf courses? Doesn’t matter I suppose, it’s not even spelled the same in print (the golf shout is “fore!”, if you must […]
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So in case you haven’t been keeping up on the Facebook and Twitter stuff, we proudly announce that as of last week, Zombie Ranch #2 is “on the shelves” for purchase courtesy of Indyplanet.com. This is the full print version […]
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Well here we are with the end of ‘Episode 3’, and it doesn’t look like Mrs. McCarty cooled off, after all (did anyone besides the Sheriff really think she would? And even he was probably just engaged in some wishful […]
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Wow, did I double up on the strange references for this blog title or what? Mostly it’s a quote from the classic movie version of Wizard of Oz, as the “Wizard” is discovered to be just a small, mortal man operating the […]
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So here Dawn and I are, having tucked away one convention last week, only to be moving on to the next starting this Friday. This plus being present and accounted for at our day jobs, and also making the decision […]
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As I’ve touched on before in my discussions here of Rango and Deadlands, the Old West (and its derivatives thereof) is a place that lends itself easily to the power of myth; a place where the reality of those crazy tales told ’round […]
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Can’t really call it an Age of Wonder, we weren’t there that long (and I didn’t spy a single Skeksis), but Dawn and I have concluded our “business trip” up to WonderCon this past weekend. On  the minus side, we […]
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If I haven’t outed myself as an RPG nerd in my writings yet, well, here we go with no more room for wrigglin’. I’m not just talking the computer RPGs (though I do like those), I’m talking the old school […]
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In this blog I’m partially going to tread onto Dawn’s turf, but hey, comics are a continual mix of words and pictures (even if sometimes you can toss words completely out of the mix, which is why comics writers are […]
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I’m gonna get this out of the way right now, so there’s no suspense. Rango. Loved it, and not just because the title character has great taste in shirts. Kinda wanna have its little gecko babies. Okay, maybe that’s an […]
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There’s horror, and then there’s horror. Sometimes it’s the little things that bring the apocalypse home, as Douglas Adams knew when he wrote in Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy about Arthur Dent trying to wrap his brain around the destruction […]
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Even a genius can be wrong. And I’m not even a genius. Case in point, Stephen Thor found my review of Gone Zombie from last week and proceeded to prove me to be the opposite of prophetic on the subject […]
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