Content Preview: rss
74 days ago
Earlier I mentioned that my first love is still superhero comics, so a natural rejoinder to the title of this post might be, “Stop reading superhero comics stupid!” Sorry, but I’m not quite ready to abandon the genre yet, but I’m more than willing to dance along its fringes. In an effort to expand my horizons this year at Comic-Con, I went thru the list of the 2009 Eisner award nominees in the hopes of uncovering a hidden gem. Unfortunately, the results were mixed and by no means conclusive. For your consideration below are the titles from my Eisner crawl and my summary judgment: Air: Letters from Lost Countries (G. Willow Wilson/M.K. Perker) Summary: This one’s much harder to categorize, and that’s part of its charm. Blythe is a flight attendant with a fear of heights. Her life goes sideways as she gets sucked into a romance with a mysterious traveler, who may or may not be a terrorist. The story continues to spiral into the bizarre as she finds herself visiting ...
76 days ago
Short Box ( noun ) - Cardboard storage containers that are the exact width and height for a comic book that has been bagged and boarded. The short box is 15 inches in length and often used for more modest collections. In a recent interview at PAX, a journo asked us “Why do you make videogames?”. While I suspect he was more interested in an answer from the artists and designers (as opposed to us business types), I nevertheless felt obliged to consider a response. The answer I came up with surprised me. At the end of the day, I still believe in the heroic ideal . I grew up on a steady diet of classical mythology, arthurian legends and comics – and however outmoded and quaint, I still believe in notions of honor, courage and standing up for what you believe in. The reason I’m drawn to work in videogames, particularly fantasy RPGs, is because this is one of the few fields where such concepts are still immediately relevant – if only from a story and game design purpose. ...278 days ago
Do you ever just feel like you've just woken up - except instead of having slept for a few hours, you feel like you've been asleep for months? I honestly believe I go through periods of mental hibernation. I stop being curious , I get heads-down and focused but I don't end up creating anything - it's more like I go thru the motions of preparation for my next bout of creativity. Then one day just like the proverbial groundhog - it's spring and its time to get busy and creating. This is pretty cyclical for me and I'm sure it all happens for a reason. Blogging's a good example - I see that it's almost been a year since I created any real original content. The last few months have mostly been spent on Facebook passively posting links or commenting on other people's posts. Since I have both a blog and a fairly active Facebook page I've wrestled with the decision on when to use my blog and when to just use FB. I've concluded that I'll continue to use my blog for (somewhat) original ...
573 days ago
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. - Bertrand Russell
579 days ago
Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true. - Niels Bohr
