What my Local Comics Store clerk thinks of digital comics

So I went to my LCS yesterday — The Source Comics and Games, Falcon Heights, MN, can’t recommend them highly enough! — and removed six titles from my pull list. This is not a ton. As the gentlemen who assisted me pointed out, my pull list on their computer is two-and-a-half screens long. But I [...]

A personal need for digital comics

I got home from work yesterday and did some cleaning. I shelved books and removed piles of stuff from near my computer. Then, I turned my attention to my comics. I hadn’t put my comics away in nearly two years. As a friend pointed out on Twitter, some of those piles were, um, structural. After [...]

January 13 2012

1. Last night I got home from circus, put the kids to bed, made a snack, watched my gaming group play Dominion, and then … cooked lunches for the week. I did not have a plan. I did not have a recipe. I chopped the garlic and the onions, put them in the pan, then [...]

Layout, graphic deisgn, and pdf help.

As I mentioned on Twitter, I’m looking to pay someone for a spot of layout and graphic design work. I have a number of comics that I’ve written, with art by different artists. I’d like to put together my work into a portfolio book. This would involve taking jpeg and other image files and put [...]

Comics and getting published

1. I’ve gotten art from two artists in the past week, for comics forthcoming. I’m not entirely sure WHEN they will be forthcoming, or in what format. I’m hoping that the revamp on my website will be done soonish. Said revamp with include webcomics, incorporate my blog into the new site, and be pretty spiffy [...]

Going a little quiet

It’s February, so my month of absorbing media and jotting down notes is over. Time to get creative again and get some focused writing done. So things are going to be a little quiet around here, as any time spent writing on my blog is time not spent on comic scripts. Decent news on the [...]

Things of a Thursday

1. Is there any way to explain to a child that asserting one is good at something is not the same as being good at it? Probably not, since I happen to know adults who still labor under this misapprehension. 2. I should make a post about the Palm Pixi and why it’s working out [...]

Uncanny X-Men brings the gay

Contains SPOILERS for Uncanny X-Men #508! SPOILERS.

Advice column replies

Replies to the advice column post a couple days back. Dear Ms. Kinney, What’s the best way to dispose of a body? Thanks, Purely Hypothetical To Whom it May Concern: Body disposal is not a hypothetical matter. It is a concrete problem solved with the tools at hand. If you know ahead of time that [...]

On the breaking of many things, not least of which, Kings.

Spoilers for X-Men: Kingbreaker follow, also War of Kings, most recent X-Men comics, and some allusions to other Marvel titles. One of the ideas my friends and I toss around is the concept of a “Phoenix Corps.” Sort of like the Green Lantern Corps from DC Comics, only with a small team of women imbued [...]