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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

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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Tags: comicmix · geekery · recommended

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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no barking from the dog, no smog…

June 5th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Indeed, yesterday was a good day.
I began the day by relaunching my webcomic interview series on ComicMix, kicking things off again with a conversation with Chris Hastings, the creator behind The Adventures of Dr. McNinja. I’ll post the usual excerpt here soon, but if you can’t wait that long, feel free to check out the [...]

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Tags: comicmix · geekery · general · my own horn · recommended · video

interview: darick robertson on “the boys” and “transmetropolitan”

June 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

I conducted this interview a little while ago with Darick Robertson, the co-creator and artist for Transmetropolitan and the current, mature-audience ongoing series The Boys. I met Darick two years ago at San Diego Comic-Con, just a short time after I became editor of Wizard Entertainment’s website.
As I write in the introduction to this interview, [...]

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video: flight of the conchords - if you’re into it

May 29th, 2008 · No Comments

After catching random episodes of Flight of the Conchords here and there last season, I finally began watching the first season from start to finish.
This song from the fourth episode has been stuck in my head for a while now and still cracks me up every time I think about it - it’s also a [...]

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plans for the day: the tarrytown/nyack/sleepy hollow tour

May 11th, 2008 · No Comments

My mother and brother are heading down to Tarrytown/Sleepy Hollow here for a visit today, so I’m looking forward to showing them around the area.
Highlights of the grand tour will include:
Mint Premium Foods: I really need to take a photo of this place, as any description I (or the NY Times writer who wrote [...]

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