A month ago I made my way to a small, one-day comic convention in New York: the Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival.  It’s a pretty new con – this was only its second year – but it attracted a great variety of talent. I drove part of the way there, but parked in Connecticut and … Read more

Another comic review tonight: for several years I had heard of, and had recommended to me, the comic Girl Genius, by Phil and Kaja Foglio.  I finally started reading it about a year ago. Like Runners, this started out as a print comic, and later moved to the web.  For some time now it’s been … Read more

Here’s another review of a sci-fi webcomic.  This one is Spacetrawler, by Chris Baldwin.  I’ve been reading Baldwin’s comics for darn near a decade, and he’s one of my favorite cartoonists.  (as an aside, I got to meet him for the first time this past weekend at NEWW, but the details of that event will … Read more

Here’s another sci-fi webcomic review.  Galaxion, by Tara Tallan, concerns space exploration and a mission to test an experimental interstellar drive (after 2 previous experiments met with failure). This comic is one that was first published as a print comic series in the 1990’s, but Tallan relaunched it on the web a few years ago, … Read more

It’s been quite a while since I last posted here about a webcomic that I read.  Since the last time, there are a few I’ve picked up, and I’ll be posting about them this month. Up today is Runners, by Sean Wang.  It’s a sci-fi comic, with a partial adventure, partial comedy bent.  The main … Read more

Last month I attended the first ever New England Webcomics Weekend (NEWW).  It was pretty fun.  It was billed as the first comic convention (in the U.S anyway) that was all webcomic artists – nobody who works mainly or solely in the print realm.  Given how popular webcomics have gotten this decade, it’s surprising that … Read more

Let me mention another online comic. Dicebox is a comic I’ve been reading for just over 5 years now, and it is a planned long-format story (it’s just about 25% of the way finished currently); you could call it an online graphic novel. As to genre, it might best be called anthropological science fiction. It … Read more

This is a quiz I found via Kevin’s blog. The result is interesting, since I’ve never read the book. You’re The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe! by C.S. Lewis You were just looking for some decent clothes when everything changed quite dramatically. For the better or for the worse, it is still hard to … Read more

I’ve updated several pages on my website over the last few days, which included adding links to some webcomics that I hadn’t linked to before.  I’ve also added links to these in the blog sidebar (over there on the left and scroll down a bit), but I thought it would be good to give them … Read more

Another quiz, again discovered on Matt’s blog (and I like his result better than mine).  My post title refers, of course, to this movie (hmm, which is actually from ’79 – oh, well).   Your Score: Ray Stantz 168 Heart, 154 Genius, 128 Cool, 156 Excitability Dr. Raymond Stantz – (Dan Aykroyd) Ghostbusters (1984) You … Read more