I'm not sure how I wasn't already friends with / following / whatever you call it on here with secondlina and dqbunny but I am now.  They are the artist/cocreators/writer of the wonderful webcomic Namesake, which is four days away from completing their second Kickstarter campaign. If you love Wonderland, Oz, Neverland, fairy tales, Once Upon A Time, Grimm, Fables ( Read more... )

I've been remiss about posting about updates to my website. (Okay, I've been remiss about posting anything at all. I'm trying!)

Interview-wise:

This past Tuesday was our very own jaylake, discussing  hosting the Hugo Awards ceremony, why he's written so many trilogies lately, and how cancer continues to affect his writing.

Last week, my guests were Meghan L ( Read more... )

My interview with Chip Skelton, the creator of the web-turned-print comics BROKEN (a modern Southern Gothic) and TERRAN SANDZ (a balls-to-the-wall action flick), is now up.


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I tweeted quite a bit last night about who I'd love to interview in the coming weeks/months.

Before I tweeted, I had confirmed (but not completed) emails set up with young singer Anthony Gargiula (FINALLY DONE), author Bryan Thomas Schmidt (THE NORTHSTAR SERIAL, the upcoming THE WORKER PRINCE, and moderator of Twitter's #SFWRTRCHT), graphic novelist ( Read more... )

I realized as I did my End-of-2010 wrap-ups that I didn't read/review a single graphic novel / trade collection last year. I read plenty of single issues of comics, but I don't usually count those towards my book count (although occasionally I have finished a storyline, noticed that a trade collection was available, and posted the review). Going to ( Read more... )

Been trying to write this post for a couple of hours and just keep getting distracted ( Read more... )

I don't remember the last time I mentioned Gibson Twist's incredibly well-written and wonderfully drawn webcomic Pictures of You, so I'm not sure whether I've mentioned that he has migrated away from Drunkduck.com and moved the comic to Smackjeeves.

Pictures of You is about a group of college friends, told in retrospect by Peter, a small town boy ( Read more... )

Today's class went better than yesterday at least insofar as spreading germs is concerned.  I was still congested, still light-headed and achey, but not sneezing anywhere near as much.  Was able to get a class that was almost 45 minutes behind schedule to end on time, without skimping on anything important.

Of course, by the time 5pm rolled around ( Read more... )

If every day I had off from work was this productive, I don't know what I'd do with myself.

Wait ... that's kinda an oxymoron, isn't it?

Anyway.  Day started with a full physical at my doctors, that once every couple of years type of thing.  In looking over the EKG, he said that the last two I've had have indicated "brachicardia" (where the heartbeat ( Read more... )

Well, I didn't get as many words written tonight.  Dinner with coworkers ran til 8, so I didn't really get home til 830 and then I had to finish up my review for this week's www.comicfencing.com (reviewing www.thewannabepirates.com).  That review, also with those of my peers on the site, will go live sometime tomorrow morning ( Read more... )