Looking back at Neil Gaiman’s Sandman 28 years later – part 1 of 11

Looking back at Neil Gaiman’s Sandman 28 years later – part 1 of 11

Posted inBooks & Authors, Comics & Graphic Novels, Geek Stuff
Eight years ago, Stephen Segal, then creative director at the legendary Weird Tales magazine, asked if he could use some modest writings I had been doing on Neil Gaiman's Sandman for a 20th anniversary retrospective he was putting together. Naturally, I said yes. What followed was a 11-part online series looking back at that remarkable body of work. The series wasn't meant to be comprehensive or to uncover things you'd never seen before. Rather, it was meant to be a fun "rediscovery" of those now classic comics - so read these with that in mind. Weird Tales has undergone some…

A Quickee Linkee

Posted inRandom Musings, Uncategorized
So someone pointed out to me that a blogger called Comicsgirl has linked to my Sandman series. She's got a nice comics-centric blog. Check it out. Thanks for the kind words, CG, here's a link right back atcha. Neil Gaiman has linked to the series three times on his journal, so I expect lots of Sandman fans have been reading. That's rather gratifying, but also entirely unexpected, seeing as I began writing it just to entertain myself. It looks like one of my quotes is being used in the marketing materials for some Avatar: The Last Airbender DVDs. That's pretty…
Tellin’ Stories

Tellin’ Stories

Posted inRandom Musings, Writing
Writing about Neil Gaiman's Sandman the last few weeks has reminded me of how envious I am of him. Not in a BAD way, mind you. Rather, in the way that makes you more eager than ever to bust your ass and create things until the world sits up, takes notice, and says, "Okay, good. You can live your life doing this full time." Here's a guy who was allowed to create something that afforded him the ability to write pretty much any kind of story he wanted to write. Horror. Fantasy. Adventure. Mythology. Romance and historical and crime and…
A brief history of time

A brief history of time

Posted inMusic, Random Musings
Well, my work PC kinda got borked on Friday, so I spent all day today running scan after scan after scan after scan. Think the problem is resolved. I blame ... well, I blame someone who is not me. It wasn't my fault. I swear it. Because things are rarely, if ever, my fault. Totally forgot to post this to my website after it was finished, so I'll post it here instead. A month or two back I spent a few hours playing around with music by Stanley Lieber. He does moody, atmospheric ambient music I quite dig, so, in…

Taking the FaceBook plunge

Posted inComics & Graphic Novels, Random Musings, Uncategorized
You know, I've had no want, need, or desire to sign up for those big social media sites. They've been all the rage the last few years, so being the sort of knee-jerk, closed-minded guy I am, I decided I wanted no part of them. Well, that's not entirely true. I used to work with this fella, Pete Chen. Great guy. I'd like to say hello. Oh, and Jeff Combs, too, a guy who seems to have fallen off the face of the Earth. But mostly, no. Keep them away, please. They're like cell phones to me, or Aquaman. But…