I’ve been wanting to get into drone work for a long time, and I finally made a start last week. I picked up a new DJI Mavic Mini, and have been having a blast with it.

My next comic convention will be Megacon in Orlando, Florida, on May 17, 18 & 19. You can pick up copies of my self-published books Shanghai and Extraterrestrial. I’ll also sign any Tick or Ultraverse books you bring – signatures are always free!

Here’s a new sample piece I inked for Ben Dunn at Antarctic Press. He put out a call for inkers last week, and I put my name in the hat. It’s a little more outside my usual style for inking, so it got me out of my comfort zone, which was fine. I approached it …

Season 2 just wrapped up, and I thought it was brilliant. As much as I’m looking forward to new adventures in season 3, I’m going to miss Captain Pike and the crew of the Enterprise. There is a show there that I never knew I wanted until I saw Anson Mount’s portrayal of Pike this …

Walking through a graveyard with a 360 camera on the end of a long stick can be a strange experience. I had a caretaker chase me down in a golf cart. He asked, “How are you doing?” “Fine,” I replied. “What are you doing?” was his next question. It was expected. After explaining to him …

I’ve been reading about all the “comicsgate” stuff in the comics business. It seems so stupid that people go so far out of their way to spread animosity and hate toward other comics creatives. One of the things I always liked about the comics industry was that we never seemed in competition with each other …

Rush has been my favorite band since I was in high school. I’ve seen Rush in concert four or five times since 1982. I own every album they’ve ever put out. I own a Rickenbacker bass guitar because Geddy Lee played one. My latest art piece is a tribute to Rush, done from a photo …

I started reading the adventures of Spider-man in issue #176, back in 1978. I’d fallen way behind on my comic reading lately. Over the past few days I finally caught up with Amazing Spider-man through issue 800. What a jumbled mess. A lot of the run was completely incoherent because it crossed over with other …

I went out to lunch with my wife and one of my sons on Father’s Day, and since we were right around the corner from the new music store in town, we decided to walk around and see what’s new. There were a few interesting bass guitars, but nothing that came close to my prized …

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One of the biggest challenges I face with my clients is getting them found by search engines. I can build a great website. I can optimize it for speed. I can write with all of the best SEO practices. I can load the page with SEO keywords. At the end of the day though, without …

In recent years, I’ve developed cataracts in my eyes. I’m not that old, so I don’t know why it happened, but each eye has developed to the point where I can’t see out of it. I had surgery on my left eye back in 2012 to put in an artificial lens, and that one is …

This is a Full Sail University Hall of Fame panel I did on Comics in the Digital Age, with Roland Mann and Barry Gregory.

Here are a few of the comics that I read this week. Not a whole lot in my bag this time, but I have a lot I haven’t read yet – Thor #4 9/10 This is turning out to me a really fun book. There’s still a lot of mystery about who is under the …

I only got to rank 17 this month in Hearthstone, as my play time was a bit limited, but I was able to get to rank 17 and earned the new card back for the month. I also was finally able to get the Fireside Gathering back this month, too, so I have a pretty …