I read several comics religously, lately, and all of them are on the web.  It’s interesting how the webcomics market has changed over the last six or seven years—and here I’m talking about the abstract attention market, not monetization or such.  Was a time, long past, when User Friendly was the shining example of success, [...]

While I didn’t really Read Comics growing up, I did read a few specific comic books and graphic novels.  Among them: Frank Miller’s Batman: Year One.  This was (with the possible exception of the original Tim Burton film) my first direct exposure to Batman, and I loved it.  Year One tells the story of the [...]

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.  [...]