A lot of children’s books are pretty creepy when you think about them. Many of them involve child abandonment or characters who seem whimsical on the surface, but reveal themselves to be agents of chaos. Think of The Cat in the Hat. He’s funny, but also incredibly destructive and unsafe. The new graphic novel by Brecht Evens takes the unsettling …
The story is now posted in full on Tumblr.
I haven’t been posting much new comics work. There are two reasons for that. One, I’m working on smaller pieces that I’m submitting to different on-line and literary journals. Most places want previously unpublished work, so that means I can’t post them here or on my tumblr. But sometimes I have a work that doesn’t seem like a good fit anywhere, …
I put my first mini comics together in 1996 and decided to be an exhibitor at my first con in 1998. I took my little photocopied minis, full of enthusiasm and dreams of making money and gaining readers. I made $15. That con was the Alternative Press Expo in San Jose. Though my expectations met the cold, hard wall of …
I am serializing my story “Defrost” over at the webcomics site Tapas. Updates every Friday.
I’m posting a 15-page metaphor about art called “Art Is a Lonely Business” over on Tumblr. Fair warning: it contains nudity, pooping, and masturbation.
I had a blog on this site, running from 2006 until December 2016. It began to feel more like a burden than an opportunity. The files were taking up a lot of space and I was tired of deleting spam comments. But recently, I began to miss the blog. I missed writing. I missed the occasional comments. And so here …