Unexpectedly, today I received a delivery containing the first two off-the-press advance copies of–yes–the actual finished book of The Littlest Shoggoth! Holy cats! Talk about a GREAT surprise (especially on a Monday!). They look, feel, and even smell AWESOME! (I love “new book smell!) And I can’t wait to be able to share them [...]
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
As if I needed more reasons to promote my ongoing Kickstarter campaign for The Littlest Shoggoth, it turns out that November is not merely the time of NaNoWriMo, it’s also Picture Book Month! I was, of course completely unaware of that when I picked this as the month to run a fund drive for my [...]
In the worst surprise announcement ever, yesterday I told all y’all that I’m about to have a Kickstarter to bring The Littlest Shoggoth back into print. I’m really excited about this, and I hope you will be, too. It strikes me, though, that to some folks this is might not be as obvious a choice [...]
Welcome to the third in a series of related posts about Kickstarter. I started by talking about Kickstarter in a very general way, followed up with an examination of Reaper’s recent crazily successful Kickstarter, and now (as promised) I’m going to talk a little bit about my Kickstarter plans. I’ve decided to try to Kickstart [...]
I’ve got a real soft spot for what’s called “all ages” comics. This will come as no surprise to those who know me well. And anyone who’s paid attention to how often I like to blog about things like Hayao Miyazaki films, cartoonists like Charles Schultz and Bill Waterson, and the works of Dr. Seuss [...]
It’s another one of my Artist Holidays … this time celebrating the 152nd birthday of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes and all around late 19th-century rock star. Doyle was one of the first authors I went ga-ga over, reading the entirety of the Sherlock Holmes collection somewhere around the 4th grade. Granted, some [...]
The nominees for this year’s ENnie Awards have been announced, and I am proud and honored to say that one of my projects has been recognized with a nomination. The Warriors Adventure Game is a finalist in the “Best Free Product” category. I’ve always held that it really is an honor just to be nominated. [...]
Before I get into touting some of the things that are going on in my world, I thought I’d take a minute and let you know about a couple of cool projects that some friends of mine have going. CTHULHU CULT No, not an actual cult! Rick Dakan has released a new novel of the [...]
Today is the anniversary of the publication of what is considered to be the first detective story, The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Alan Poe, in Graham’s Magazine in 1841. Going back and looking at that story, it’s amazing how many of the modern tropes of the genre are present in Poe’s tale [...]
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
It’s another of my personal artistic holidays today … the birthday of Edgar Allan Poe. The odd thing about that is, there was a long swath of my life in which I could not read Poe without being reminded of a quite awful professor I took a class with in my final year of college. [...]