Category Archives: Blog

NY Comicon

I’ll be there all weekend. At the Vertigo panel on Friday too, since a couple announcements are of particular interest to me. C’mon down, buy a hot dog, watch out for Joss Whedon and the taxi-garage oil slicks, enjoy the … Continue reading

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This week’s strip: “Brainstormy Weather”

I’ll start doing this regularly now. Enjoy. For a little bonus, here’s last week’s.

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Planet of the APE

It’s never too late to enjoy photos of the queer comics gang from this fall’s Alternative Press Expo, at least in my world. Big Bear LA, whoever the heck he is, never got around to labelling these like he promised, … Continue reading

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Happy Birthday, Joan Didion

OK, hers is December 5th, not 15th, but hey, I’m late for everything. One of the few cool Joans out there. (You think I’m kidding, but between dead French martyrs and women who fare badly in pop songs, the pickin’s … Continue reading

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Spreading the Gospel

Zion got a hat tip on this Mormon arts & culture website, which delights me. The whole thing’s an interesting read. Who knew there were LDS temple paintings decorating the walls in the backgrounds of Pickles?

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Political cartoons

Well, it’s taken me a couple weeks to digest the events of the party conventions, which is like a couple years in this tiresome 24-7 news cycle wherein we all become screeching little mini-commentators obsessing about political strategy instead of … Continue reading

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What I did on my summer vacation

OK–it was just a long weekend at Netroots Nation, but I don’t have any other good excuse for not posting for so long. I was a spousal tagalong at the conference, which is just in its third year and still … Continue reading

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Read Dateland

Because Jennifer Parello is a funny woman. A can of Heineken is apparently like Proust’s madeleine to her: something with a taste or scent that will torment you with the godforsaken memory of some ex for the rest of your … Continue reading

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Post Toasted

I really am sorry I don’t post more often. This website and blog ground to a balky, cranky start when I belatedly realized there’s just no other way to self-publicize and stay in touch with readers in the 21st century. … Continue reading

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Graphic Diction

As mentioned a while back in News & Notes, a few words about queer creators in mainstream graphic fiction. Nothing published today would be possible without the seminal autobiographical works of Mary Wings, Howard Cruse, Roberta Gregory, et al. They … Continue reading

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