I saw the movie Aliens (that’s the second one, with all the Space Marines and the big queen) for the first time when I was eight or nine years old.  My older older sister had rented it on VHS (she’d seen it a couple times before), and I watched it with her.  She tried to [...]

[For those not precisely nerdy enough to tell videogame console controllers apart: that's a rendering of an NES controller, which more or less changed the world of controller design forever with it's iconic cross-shaped directional "d-pad".  Prior to the NES, up/down/left/right direction had been mostly handled by "joystick" type controllers—think of the classic one-orange-button Atari controller—or [...]

When I was growing up, I didn’t really read comic books. It just didn’t seem important—I split my time between juvenile fiction (I was a big Walt Morey fan), Stephen King, and Nintendo Power Magazine—and, besides, comics were expensive, man. So what exposure I had to comic art was limited to comics in the daily [...]

Meet my younger older sister.  (I have an older older sister too, and a younger brother, but this isn’t a drawing of either of them.)  She’s a year and a half older than me, and has a bachelors in Fine Arts and a masters in Landscape Architecture/Design or something close to that. I drew this [...]

Growing up, I was the musical one and my sister was the artistic one.  I played piano and clarinet; she drew horses and princesses.  She drew a lot of horses, honestly.  Had a real horse fixation.  Shocking, I know, in a young teenaged girl. She’s a year and a half older than me; the way [...]

The tablet was an out-of-nowhere xmas gift from my mother-in-law.  I’ve always kind of wanted one, but it’s the sort of thing that falls into that tricky territory of not sure I should buy myself this.  Having it now and playing with it for the last week, though, I’m pretty sure that I need it.  [...]