We not only live in changing times, but we live in quickly changing times. Kiss Number 8 came out in 2019, and as the story of a girl realizing she’s gay, complicated by the unspoken family history she discovers, it already feels a little like a period piece. (Not enough of one, though, given current events.) To be fair, the author’s interview in the back makes that point as well, based on how long the book took to write and […]

One of the local channels, NBC 15, sent a camera to Westfield Comics for Free Comic Book Day yesterday. Here’s the coverage on their website, where I’m quoted in the text article. The video there aired at 9 PM. I’m not in it, but I was in the 10 PM video, as seen here.

This coming weekend, April 14-16, 2023, is 221B Con in Atlanta, and I’m thrilled to go! It’s a fan-run gathering for those interested in Sherlock Holmes, any version through the ages, and it’s a fabulous time (based on how much I enjoyed attending for the first time last year). I will be presenting on Sherlock Holmes in Comics at 5:30 PM on Saturday. Come see me! I’ll also be one of the panelists for “Fan Friends in Real Life” — […]

This is a guide for how to read fanfiction (or fanfic). But before we do that, bear with me. We’re going to start with the elephant in the room. WHY would you read fanfic? A bunch of reasons. No matter how many stories/shows/movies/books they make with your favorite character, you may want more. (For popular series, there are tens of thousands of fanfic stories available, all for free, and multiple millions of words.) Particularly if your favorite is a supporting […]

Thanks to the generosity of a publicity person, I had the pleasure of trying out a small Wacom Intuous tablet recently. Of course I knew that the Wacom was the preferred device for drawing digital art, but I’m not a creator that way, so I was curious what else it could be used for. Setup took some time, mostly because I needed to restart my Mac and I had way too many browser tabs open. That’s my fault. Once I […]

I’m very pleased to be one of the 17 contributors to The Monstrum Opus of Sherlock Holmes: A Compendium of Horrors Dr. Watson Dared Not Tell, a new collection of essays revealing the monsters secretly appearing in the Sherlock Holmes mystery stories. Monsters include werewolves, shapeshifters, Cthulu, Mr. Hyde, Dorian Gray, Gozer, and the Wicked Witch of the West. My particular piece deals with “The Adventure of the Speckled Band” (you know, the one with the snake, but that’s not […]