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Indy Comic Book Fail Lesson 46:The Crushing Defeat Of Moderate Success
March 17, 2011 – 12:29 pm | View Comments

When you talk to people about Indy Comics, you tend to hear about the extreme edges more often than not. Everyone wants to cite the handful of instances where a Comic becomes a “Hit,” and …

Indy Comic Book FAIL Lesson 45:Understanding Henry
March 9, 2011 – 2:39 pm | View Comments

For those of you who follow my Twitter account, you know what happened when I was waiting for a plane coming home from Seattle to Newark after the Emerald City Comic Con. For those of …

Indy Comic Book FAIL Lesson 44: Twitter Saved @JasonRubacky’s Mom
February 1, 2011 – 8:14 am | View Comments

I want to talk with you today about Jason Rubacky. He’s not a long time friend—in fact, if he didn’t post pictures of himself on Twitter, I might pass him on the street and never …

Indy Comic Book FAIL Lesson 43: Thirty Days Of Indy Comics
January 27, 2011 – 1:37 pm | View Comments

This week, Steve Niles did something that quite a few people somehow found unthinkable. Mr Niles didn’t retire to a Unibomber shack and begin on the first “3D” comic to be printed on 100% recycled anti-personnel mines… …

Indy Comic Book FAIL Lesson 42: There Is No Spoon
January 20, 2011 – 9:04 am | View Comments

One of my favorite movies is the original Matrix movie, and like a lot of fans of the Matrix, I don’t want to even acknowledge the 2 “sequels.” Of the many, many great things about …

Indy Comic Book FAIL Lesson 41: The Awesome Age Of Comics
January 6, 2011 – 1:19 pm | View Comments

I have a small stack of Comics that I keep handy whenever I want to be inspired by really, really good stuff. In that stack is a copy of the collected Sam & Max: Freelance …

Indy Comic Book FAIL Lesson 40: Giving The Gift Of Krampus!
December 28, 2010 – 8:11 am | View Comments

The first time I heard about Krampus, I was 14. I was looking through a book I found at a library book sale that was filled with all sorts of urban legends like Bigfoot and …

Indy Comic Book FAIL Lesson 39: Who Are YOU?
December 16, 2010 – 7:51 am | View Comments

Not that long ago, I was talking to a major Comics publisher about doing some writing for them. While there was interest in me pitching story ideas, I was told that I had to sign …

Indy Comic Book FAIL Lesson 38: Scotty Young’s Ass-Kicking Super Chicken
December 9, 2010 – 7:10 am | View Comments

Quite a few years ago, I started working a day job in the Purchasing department for an industrial bakery, buying everything the bakery needed to function that didn’t directly go into the cake they baked. …

Indy Comic Book FAIL Lesson 37: The Steel Cage Match of Plot Vs. Point
December 2, 2010 – 10:35 am | View Comments

I have an artist friend of mine who is doing his own writing for the first time in years, and when he told me about his new project, he was really excited about the challenge. …