Cover Reveal - TAKE TWO
I redesigned the cover for the Summer 2023 issue of FUN TIME. As I worked on the story more, I felt like the image I'd initially created wasn't quite working. I think this pops<...
2023-04-25 16:39:41 +0000 UTC View Post
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COVER REVEAL!! FUN TIME 4
I'm excited to share with you the (almost) final cover for the next FUN TIME 'zine.
This issue of my anthology series is going to be different from the previous three, instead of gathering togethe...
2023-04-17 18:41:43 +0000 UTC View PostA little FUN-TIME 'zine update
Page from a comic in progress that'll feature prominently in the newest issue of my FUN-TIME 'zine series. I'm having a lot of fun with this one. It's my one-man 'zine, I can climb inside my own navel as much as I'd like, and what I'd like is to write a new comic about my relationship to the band...
2023-04-04 21:22:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Big Head Problems
Got to push the bad ideas out to get to the good ones
2023-03-24 18:57:49 +0000 UTC View PostHerman Miller Aeron Chairs
My favorite perk of the first dot-com era
2023-03-22 17:44:31 +0000 UTC
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A Year of Making Comics - Update #11a
This kind of embarrasses me, but is a part of writing. I posted my MCU comic yesterday, thinking it was fairly clever, but not feeling totally 100% about it. I realized after I'd put it up here, the problem wasn't so much in the concept, but in the execution. I was hemming and hawing in the text,...
2023-03-07 14:18:10 +0000 UTC View PostA Year of Making Comics - Update #11
New MCU comic in progress
2023-03-06 18:38:32 +0000 UTC
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A Year of Making Comics - Update #10
This one's for all Patrons
Not a lot of updates over the past two weeks. My wife got herself a case of Covid on a recent business trip. The rest of us seemed to avoid it, but just having it in the house causes upheaval. Then I did come down with some kind of sinus infection anyway, and toda...
2023-02-24 19:30:26 +0000 UTC View PostI’m something of an activist myself
You’re welcome everybody…
2023-02-19 15:51:04 +0000 UTC View PostA Year of Making Comics - Update #9
What Are You Going Through
2023-02-14 12:54:26 +0000 UTC
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A Year of Making Comics - Update #8
I was sent an advance readers copy of RINGMASTER, the upcoming biography of Vince McMahon by Abraham Riesman, whose previous book about Stan Lee I enjoyed very much. I finished reading RINGMASTER, which I liked, but I have to admit, didn't connect to in the same way that I did the other book, bec...
2023-02-07 14:32:04 +0000 UTC View PostFUN TIME SPRING 2023 - going into the mail
Just a quick update to say, copies of my newest mini comic arrived back from the printer's, so have started to go out into the mail for all zine club/premium supporters. If you don't receive ...
2023-02-03 20:01:12 +0000 UTC View Post
A Year of Making Comics - Update #7
Haha, no, this isn’t a current self-portrait (at least not this week), but it’s the start of a comic I’m hoping to make about reading novels.
Reading is important to me, but I’v...
2023-01-31 19:14:30 +0000 UTC View PostA Year of Making Comics - Update #6
A short post just to say, when I updated this series on Monday, I definitely felt morose. I think it was a bit NYT postpartum (this happens a lot, you think something's coming that's going to "change" th...
2023-01-26 20:30:06 +0000 UTC View PostA Year of Making Comics - Update #5
My comic essay, "Orwell Was Right" was published today over at The Nib. This is of course the piece that I serialized here as...
2023-01-23 19:57:17 +0000 UTC View PostFUN TIME SPRING 2023 COVER
I am excited to finally share the cover to the next issue of my one-man anthology (manthology?) comic book series, FUN TIME, SPRING 2023!
Twenty-pages, full color throughout, collecting cartoon essays, gag strips, and diary comics. This issue features three central pieces, ...
2023-01-18 17:58:33 +0000 UTC View PostNew York Times cartoon
I should have shared this yesterday when I could have been sure it was possible to buy a copy of this Sunday’s New York Times, but I had a full page comic in this week’s Book Review insert, a cartoon response to the new novel by Dan Kois, Vintage Contemporaries, which I thought was excellent....
2023-01-16 16:59:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Grody Mouth
It’s shocking how much we love dogs considering how gross they are. I couldn’t love my doggy more, but I see all the nasty things she puts in her mouth
2023-01-04 19:32:58 +0000 UTC View PostA Year of Making Comics - Update 1
Happy New Year! I hope everybody's 2023 is getting off to a fine start. Thank-you for your continued support on here, I really do appreciate it very much.
I wanted to try something new, which is to provide a little more ongoing "Behind the Scenes" updates for Premium supporters. I have a va...
2023-01-03 17:29:15 +0000 UTC View Post
