BCR Charity Auction Cards

Via Ron LeBrasseur, here’s a complete list of cards supplied to the aforementioned charity art auction by members of the Boston Comics Roundtable. On eBay, the cards are arranged in alphabetical order.

Roho:
BLUER
OUTLAW PIZZA
X-MEN STORM
DAREDEVIL
SILVERSURFER
SUPERMAN

Charles Snow:
BRANDI
EDNA
YOSHIMI

Aya Rothwell:
DRAGON
RING

Hyun Supul:
ROBOT / BIRD
ANIME GIRL
RESCUE RANGERS GADGET

Donna:
WONDER WOMAN
TITANS WOMEN

Cathy Leamy:
ANGEL GIRL
MAGIC BOOK

Dan Mazur:
FLIP
PENNY CENTURY
PRESIDENT OBAMA
GREEN LANTERN

James:
TITANS STARFIRE

Ron LeBrasseur:
HULK
FANTASTIC FOUR THING

Braden Lamb:
KITTY HAWK
ADAM STRANGE

Shelli Paroline:
STRONGEST MAN
FUTURAMA

Old Articles Re-Posted

Two of the articles I originally published at Webcomics.com have just been archived at Comixtalk.com. These have been unavailable since Webcomics.com changed hands, which is a shame since I’m actually pretty happy with how most of my writing there turned out.

The two articles that just posted both look at the work of interesting experimental webcomics creators; so have a look at B. Shur’s New Rocket and The Old Made New: The Static Comics of Daniel Merlin Goodbrey.

The rest of my Webcomics.com articles should be appearing over the next few days.

Miscellaneous Updates

  • I will be exhibiting at Boston Comic Con next weekend.
  • Page 13 of Gingerbread Houses posted yesterday.
  • Had a great conversation with Shelli yesterday about the complete draft for our forthcoming book. It looks like I still have a LOT of work to do (which is not a surprise), but now I have a much clearer idea of the direction I’m headed in. And I think I know what to do with Sonny, the troublesome character I’ve been struggling the most to write.
  • I got a peek at the new website that is in development for The Boston Comics Roundtable. Apparently, I’ve missed way too many meetings, because it’s a far more ambitious project than I realized. I’m very excited, and I’m looking forward to contributing to the new site.
  • The website revamp is moving along at a good clip, but I just took a look at my Links page, and man is that out of date. Half the things I have linked don’t even exist anymore. So, I guess that’s next on my to-do list.
  • My second Emerson class, Writing the Graphic Novel II, just wrapped up. I still have to read and grade the final projects, but I should have a little more creative time available to me now that that’s done. Still, I’ll miss that class! I had some great students, and I always had fun working with them. I hope I get as good a group next year.

Website Update

Now that I’ve got this site functioning again, I’ve decided to move to a new webhost. Please be patient with any irregularities you might encounter as the new DNS settings take effect.

The Rule of Death

I just sent a copy of an old article I did on Daniel Merlin Goodbrey to be archived on Comixtalk, and it reminded me to get caught up on “The Rule of Death,” Goodbrey’s collaboration with Douglas Noble. An old west story about a man who dies, then changes his mind, and comes back. It’s hard to describe beyond that, but it’s so damn good. Read it from the beginning.

NEWW

I’m back from Webcomics Weekend.  The trip was a great time, nice and relaxed, with plenty of time for just chatting with friends.  Shared a couple of meals with old friends, like Bryant Johnson, Christ Shadoian, Dirk Tiede, T Campbell, and Cat Garza.  Got to chat briefly with Steven Withrow, Spike, David Malki !, Ryan North, Romantic, Chris Yates, Gary Tyrell, and Dorothy Gambrell, among a bunch of others that I’m probably forgetting (sorry!).  And made some new friends as well — I met several lovely people from the Trees and Hills group in Vermont, and I had lovely conversation with Hilary Hatch, wife & business partner of Michael Poe.

My purchases were few: I picked up a copy of I Saw You and a pair of robot socks for Brandy.

One of the real highlights for me was when David Malki ! showed me the  illustration that will accompany my story in his and Ryan North’s Machine of Death anthology.  I won’t say who the artist is, since I don’t want to pre-empt any official announcements, but she’s a longtime webcomics stalwart, whose work I’ve admired for years.  I was delighted and honored, and I can’t wait until everyone can see it!
The Eastworks building itself is an amazing space.  It would be a wonderful place to go to work every day, and made a nice venue for a small, low-stress convention.

So, about the scar…

I’m down at Webcomics Weekend, and today I received a little gentle chiding for not keeping my long-distance friends appraised of my health, especially since I recently acquired a fairly obvious scar in the middle of my throat. The story is that I did have a little touch of the cancer early this year, and had to have my thyroid removed, but it really wasn’t a big deal. The kind of cancer I had is very easily treated through surgery, and once treated poses no long term risk to my health. From the time I found out about it, until the time I was done with it only lasted about three months. I’m perfectly fine now, so when you see the scar, don’t worry about it.

But I do look sort of like someone tried to garrote me.

Website Improvements

It’s not done yet, but I’m much happier with the state of this website now.  In addition to getting it to actually work again, I’ve also streamlined a number of elements and reorganized a few things.  I’m making more use of the automated pages on my WebcomicsNation page, in order to better integrate the two pages together.

One of the biggest changes I’ve made was to redo the front of my WCN page. Gone is the disordered vertical list where I had no control over the order of the comics displayed (my least favorite of all my projects was consistently getting the most prominent placement).  Stories are now attractively presented (I hope) and grouped by theme.  My aim is to give readers better direction toward the stories they’re most likely to enjoy.
There still more work to be done (including getting some kind of advertising back on the site), but in the meantime, feedback is welcome!