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a moment to myself

June 30th, 2008 · No Comments

I’ve kept a fairly frantic pace the last few days, buzzing from convention to hotel to meetings with various people in and around the comics scene. Now that the show’s finally over and the wind-down period a very real possibility, I decided to take a swim in the hotel pool, buy a couple of drinks [...]

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Tags: geekery · navel-gazing · recommended

wizard world chicago: day one and two

June 29th, 2008 · No Comments

My reports from the first two days of the convention are up on ComicMix, but I figured I should post some excerpts here, too - just in case my little digital soapbox is your entry point to the site.
Friday:
After a full day on the floor at this year’s Wizard World Chicago (which is actually held [...]

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mocca recap: day two - fire! smoke! sellouts and links!

June 9th, 2008 · 2 Comments

So in case you haven’t heard, the second day of the MoCCA Art Festival in Manhattan was fairly eventful. As always, here’s an excerpt from my recap (which is currently available on ComicMix) and a link to the full version of the report.
Oh, and this time around, I’ve added a little “bonus” story at [...]

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interview: chris hastings on ‘the adventures of dr. mcninja’

June 6th, 2008 · 1 Comment

I kicked off my webcomic interview series again this week, posting a conversation between myself and Chris “Dr. McNinja” Hastings. He’s good people, and I’m looking forward to meeting up with him and many of the other webcomic creators I’ve become familiar with over the last bunch of years during this weekend’s MoCCA Arts Festival.
If [...]

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online comic book reader 2.0 at comicmix

June 5th, 2008 · No Comments

Big news over at ComicMix today, as Brian Alvey makes the official announcement about our new and improved online comic book reader.
I read a lot of comics on my computer these days, and over the last 4-6 years I’ve tried just about every comic reader the InterWebs has to offer. I’m proud to say [...]

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