Death of the Fanboy
Had this stranded in a tab for weeks, finally cued it up just now. Good stuff: http://nerdsthatgeek.com/blogs/the-death-of-the-fanboyÂ
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Comic Booking
Solid advice from Jason Starr. (good novelist, too) And, since I don’t have time right now to search up how to embed eleven tweets (“Moment?” “Storify?”) when they’re not self-grouped with some hashtag—like I’d know then, either—I just screencapped them out. So, they are, all upside down.
Best of 2017
For the first time ever, I kept a running tab of the best of every month: for January February March April May June July August September October November December It’s not everything I read/watch/listened to. Just the stuff I dug. And? I had this big idea that I’d peel back through all those, dither and
Comic book cameo for Mongrels
Check it out: So cool. I mean, I know: my critical faculties are supposed to be rendered helpless from the surprise of seeing the yellow book drawn like this, but? That’s not why I like this comic book. Why I like this comic book is that it’s good comic-booking. Pablo D’Stair knows the medium, knows
Hooded Justice
Man, had no idea about any of this. And, it’s just a shade away from the slasher, too: masked, punishing the “guilty,” using violence the law can’t use, preferring the night. How the KKK Shaped Modern Comic Book Superheroes
Skiffy & Fanty (longer interview)
That one from a few days ago was a spotlight/author kind of thing. This is a conversation about horror, with other hosts, other horror writers: https://skiffyandfanty.com/2017/10/23/338indigenoushorror/
Past Couple of Weeks
have been full of events. Feels like I haven’t been wheels-down since Denver Comic Con, about. Had three deadline stories to jam down along the way, and trying to finish a novel besides. But, of course: wouldn’t have it any other way. Anyway, at Tattered Cover Lodo . . . last week, I think it
Denver Comic Con 2017
I remember, roundabout . . . 2009, 2010? sitting in the back room of a comic book shop with a lot of the people who would go on to make DCC, and we were talking about what if we did something, some event, do we think anybody would come? Turns out, 115K people will, yep.
My Generation’s Rosetta Stone
Which, really, reminds me of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WgT9gy4zQA Which singing then reminds me of: But if I don’t stop now, at three, I’ll soon find this rabbit-hole to be bottomless.
DINKalicious
Very cool con (#DINKDenver). Some few snaps. Walking in: Opening the first fold-out of the program: Getting to the Hex table: The Narrators panel/event I did: And, maybe obviously, only one of these snaps is from me, other three are nabbed off social media (first is Bret Smith, second’s probably either Josh Viola or Dean Wyant, third’s
Best of the Year so far: the February Post
Getting to a few of these kind of the year-after. But, man, they’re no less excellent for it: Â