(Image from:   12 Angry Men ) Today will be my first day on jury duty. So I'll be off-line for the rest of this week, and possibl...

Graphic Storytelling and Visual Narrative is Book #2 in Will Eisner's how-to series on the principles of creating comics. I liked...

This past Sunday, the  Seattle Seahawks  pulled off an amazing down-to-the-wire win against the  Greenbay Packers  for the NFC Champions...

Ever since I started delving in to the how-to of making comics, I've heard a lot about Will Eisner  and the Eisner Award . So w...

Almost as soon as I finished How to Make Webcomics , I delved into The Webcomics Handbook , by  Brad Guigar .  The author makes two dis...

  I've always admired Bill_Mauldin 's work, but I've only managed to read about the antics of "Willie and Joe" in...

A few days ago, I posted about the goodies I got for Christmas.    One of them was a Thorin Oakenshield Christmas ornament from Hallm...

Yesterday, I posted my review of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies . Now that Peter Jackson's trilogy (based on one book)...

   I missed a lot of movies last year.  But the one film I was bound & determined to see on the big screen was, The Hobbit: The Ba...

Back in the late '70s, a company called Metagaming sprang up with a new product concept called Microgames .  These were popular be...