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In my inaugural post, I promised to share tips, tricks, and lessons from my indie comics journey. I offer these, not as a pro, but as a novice learning the craft as I go, and as someone who shit several beds along the way, I share them in the hopes that you (another writer getting started) spend less time cleaning up unnecessary messes and more time writing. Those of you reading this who are pros, please feel free to weigh in with tips of your own, and correct me if I go ast

Sam Spade, Betty Boop and Nancy Drew walk into a bar... That's not the set-up for a joke. As of January 1, 2026, that’s a story anyone can write, courtesy of public domain, the great sandbox in the sky where music, art and literature go to frolic once copyright expires. And because of public domain, when Sam, Betty, and Nancy roll up to the club, they can kick it with the likes of Dracula, Alice, Cthulhu, Jane Eyre, Sherlock Holmes, and the Lost Boys. And so can you, if you o

If you're an aspiring creator and are considering using AI: don't. Just. Don't. Large language models and image generators are cannibals. They devour the hard-written words of our best authors (and worst shit-posters) and wash them down with works of art toiled over by master and journeymen artists alike. They digest these human creations, parsing them into strings of numbers and unintelligible code before crapping out some soulless turd studded with kernels of someone else's

As an aspiring comics creator with little to no experience, it's important to find your people, which can be tough in the day to day grind of working full time. Fortunately, there's a great resource for noob comics creators like me, and perhaps you as well: your local comic con. These days, you don't have to travel to NYC or San Diego to meet other creators; local cons are thriving and are most likely have the independent artists, writers and other creatives you'll want to ge

Three years ago, I turned fifty, which I think is the exact right age to have a proper mid-life crisis. I had spent my life reading comics and loving comics, and decided that for my 3rd act (which is what I'm calling the period between 50 and decrepitude), I'd try my hand at writing comics. For the first time in over thirty years, I sat down to write with a real sense of urgency behind it. And I wrote a lot. Of shit. Two years ago, I had a bunch of sprawling, half-completed