A few things this week: 1) I couldn’t decide whether to do a post about Gene Colan, who just died recently. As I said on Facebook: One of the great comic book artists. Underrated, but absolutely distinctive. He drew a … Continue reading
I bought my first comic book in (I believe) 1963. Since then, I’ve been buying comics pretty much every week (or at least I got comics every week – there was a period when I got them for free, but … Continue reading
I just read this article, which takes a dim view of NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). First off, I’ve never participated in NaNoWRiMo, and I’ve never had any desire to. It does not, as the Quakers say, speak to my … Continue reading
This blog started five years ago today. In that time, I’ve made 280 posts, pretty much one a week. I’ve also made 404 posts on the utownwriting.com blog, which was started on May 6, 2007. I learned that kind of … Continue reading
(I posted this on the blog of the late Steve Gerber, which is being maintained by friends of his.) Steve Gerber put one word after another better than any other comic book writer I’ve seen in the last 40+ years. … Continue reading
Nextwave I have to confess that I’m unreasonably enthusiastic about a comic book called Nextwave. I picked it up because it’s written by Warren Ellis, currently my favorite comic book writer. However, his books are usually fairly serious (with the … Continue reading