The Summer I tuned 15, way back in 1981, I discovered that a comic shop opened up in Nyack NY (named M&M Comics for the mother and son duo of Marge and Mike). That’s about a twenty minute drive away[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Right now it’s January 31st and so far here in the suburbs of NYC it’s been a snowy winter. After any snow storm the first thing I have to do is clear the driveway. My driveway is a hill and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I bought some Magic the Gathering cards this week. I bought them partly out of nostalgia and partly out of a desire to make some art out of them. The nostalgia part has to do with the fact that I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It took me a long time to become a Charles Burns fan. I don’t know why. Despite me being an indie comics reader since the early 1980s he was off my radar for a long time. It could be because[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve been getting one of my “Dreams of Things” covers done once a week for well over a year now. Maybe it’s even been two years. Today is a Monday and I’ve been getting them done on that day since[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I haven’t done a Friends walkthrough in a while so I think I’ll do one. I haven’t watched an episode in months so let’s see where I’m at. I’m on Season Eight Episode Five “The One With Rachel’s Date”. This[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m not big on New Year’s resolutions. As a matter of fact I’ve never made one. I can make resolutions at any time during the year and act on them so I’ve never had the need to do them at[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This past weekend I dove into designing the book for my illustrated version of “The Great Gatsby” once again. After letting it sit around, for somewhere around half a year, because I hated the book design I made for it[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m generally an organized person plus I like to put things in order. A place for everything and everything in its place. At least at the beginning. I’m not an overly neat person so entropy works its chops on me[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I was tempted to name this piece “Strange Things That I Buy” but they’re really not strange. They’re just odds and ends. Often they’re impulse buys that are just a few bucks and for some reason I think, in the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…