For whatever reason I found myself thinking of the Cosplay Death Match that I host at ConnectiCon every year. It’s become the main event of the convention and more folks who attend that show know me as “the Death Match guy” than from my two decades of making comics. Not that I’m complaining, mind you. … Continue reading “Only At ConnectiCon”
This November I decided to take on the challenge of trying to write a novel. It was called National Novel Writing Month or NaNoWriMo, but since a company made an official website to help track progress got sponsorship from A.I. programs and doubled-down on their support of it I’ve decided to simply call it the … Continue reading “November Novel Progress”
To say I am furious about the results of the presidential election is an understatement. I woke up, read the news, and was shaking with rage. My hatred for that son of a bitch has reached depths I did not think I’d previously attained, and yet here we are; a new pit of anger discovered, … Continue reading “Election Day Anger”
Today is the presidential election here in the United States and I cannot wait to have this whole ordeal behind us. And by that I mean I hope that bargain bin wannabe dictator gets handed a loss so definitive we don’t see his name in the news again unless he’s going to prison. In case … Continue reading “Election Day 2024”
The title of today’s brief blog says it all. Today is my favorite holiday of the Big Three and despite my having to run to Providence to drop off my merch for Rhode Island Comic Con tomorrow I’m looking forward to celebrating tonight. Halloween is my favorite holiday not because of the spooks and scares … Continue reading “HAPPY HALLOWEEN!”
Halloween is this Thursday and I couldn’t be more excited. It’s not for any special reason, mind you. I’m always excited for Halloween, and that enthusiasm has only grown since becoming a father. But what is normally a festive holiday is going to be mildly busy this year, for scheduling reasons. This weekend I make … Continue reading “My Mildly Hectic Halloween”
Throughout the course of my twenty year career in webcomics I’ve done a lot of conventions. I was maintaining a decent schedule of shows until the Covid-19 pandemic ground everything to a halt. As things slowly reopened so did my convention schedule, albeit at a highly reduced schedule. Now, a few years out of the … Continue reading “Attempting More Conventions in 2025”
A couple of weeks ago I deleted my Twitter account. I don’t mean that I just deleted the app from my phone. I mean I deactivated my entire account. Almost a decade’s worth of interactions and postings, all gone. I don’t feel an ounce of regret because the guy who owns it, whose actual name … Continue reading “Bluer Skies Ahead”
With the holy trinity of holidays coming up… Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas… schedules are slowly becoming more cluttered with adult and parental responsibilities. Time for personal frivolity is becoming a precious commodity, and with that in mind my friends scrambled to fit one last Nerd Summit in for 2024 before we all became too busy … Continue reading “The Final Nerd Summit of 2024”
I have one thing in common with the late, great author Terry Pratchett. In my copy of his first Discworld novel, The Color of Magic, there’s a foreword where he describes his approach to his signature fantasy setting. He says something like, “this is not a coherent fantasy world, the chronology is funny, and there … Continue reading “A World Without A Map or A Name”