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 […]
As I was between assignments in 2007, my old DC Comics colleague Jordan B. Gorfinkel reached out to me about working with his start-up, Avalanche Comics Entertainment. His goal was to produce custom comics for clients or work with them in handling transmedia exploitation of their Intellectual Property. For the next seven years or so, […]
Around the beginning of 2024, Randy Tischler invited me to be a juror for the 2024 Ringo Awards, which will be presented on September 21 at the Baltimore Comic-Con. I was going to be part of a quintet scattered around America, and I would read submissions and make my choices. I read comics and graphic […]
In 1999, I was Editorial Coordinator at DC Comics, my seventh year in the role. I was approaching the millennium and my 42nd birthday and was beginning to wonder if I was happy with the notion of staying at DC for the remainder of my career. The main reason for this feeling at the time […]
Last year, all my buddies were having a ball at Trek Long Island, and it sounded like too much fun to pass up. I reached out to con organizer Stefanie Gangone, who was delighted to have me come for their second show. I can’t tell you how excited I am about a pure Star Trek […]