This is most definitely my most productive year of reading, and the main reason is not that I had more time, but as a Ringo Awards judge, I had 647 submissions to wade through, and I found out that I read more of them cover to cover than I suppose might have been wise. In […]
2024 was packed and, therefore, exhausting. That sums it up, so you can stop here if you’re not interested. For whatever reason, circumstances conspired to make this a very busy year, gaining momentum by the month and then the week. It all ground to a halt on Christmas Day, and we welcomed a day to […]
DC and I parted company in January 2006, and that spring, writer/editor Lee Nordling reached out to me. As part of The Pack, a group of freelancers he collaborated with, he’d begun working with Scott Mitchell Rosenberg’s Platinum Studios. He wanted to know if I was interested in doing some freelance editing for them, and […]
I love the Baltimore Comic-Con, a show that puts its love of all things comics ahead of all things media. It’s a great chance to catch up with peers and friends while keeping my eye out for the next great thing. As always, I will be a panel moderator while wandering the aisles and visiting […]
Teachers reported back on August 20, and it was as if we hadn’t been apart for ten weeks. The newcomers were warmly welcomed, and we spent the off-site session focusing a lot on our students’ mental state. We hadn’t discussed this previously, and it was welcome, unintentionally echoed by the priest during the mass that […]
My friend Howard Weinstein has been asking me to write something original, and my free time has dwindled once I added teaching at MICA to my schedule. So, as I wrapped up work on Above the Ground 3 (coming in 2026, if not sooner) last summer, I swore to everyone within earshot that I was […]
Every summer, my schedule sees me use June and July pretty much for vacation and writing. As the calendar tips into August, I shift gears, spending part of each day beginning to prep for the coming school year. Teachers report back mid-month, with the students arriving a week later. We have four days to prep, […]
Recently, I wrote about my time working with Jordan B. Gorfinkel and Avalanche Comics Entertainment. I ended by referencing Valiant Comics, intending to write about my multiple years of consulting with them. As I began to prepare this, it turned out that much of the email archive was gone, and mysteriously, my file on the […]
Our world was turned upside down in January 2008 when Robbie was first diagnosed with leukemia. When we began that journey, we had no idea what would happen or when. As it turned out, the journey was just seven months long. On this date, sixteen years ago, at 8:235 p.m., he left us. Since then, […]
I really didn’t know what pulp magazines were until around 1970 when I was introduced to the Lancer collections of Robert E. Howard’s Conan the Barbarian. Somewhere along the way, as my comic book habit had bled into reading the fanzines of the day, I got to learn about the Shadow, Doc Savage, G-8, and […]