When I was a young artist and writer, I used to make “video games” to occupy my brother and sister on long car trips. Inspired by Sierra and other PC games that I was playing in the late 1980s and early 1990s—Final Fantasy, King’s Quest, Space Quest, Colonel’s Bequest—I would draw rooms and scenes on… Read more »
Posts Categorized: comics+animation
day 50
Hello from gorgeous San Francisco! There’s not a day goes by where I don’t say, out loud, “I love this city!” several times a day. A big part of my job hunt has been getting out of the house. Over coffee with one of the head UX ladies at ModCloth, she confided: “don’t spend all… Read more »
so long, 2012!
At the beginning of this year, I wrote that “I’m not even going to guess where 2012 will take me.” At the time, San Francisco was the only place I wanted to be, but I never dreamed I’d be here now, nor the route that would get me here. In January 2012, a former professor… Read more »
top of the month: september
I know what you’re thinking: what happened to September? Short answer: SO MUCH. 1. I’m moving. To California. Cristo and I have been trying to get to San Francisco for years. First, I wanted to finish my master’s degree, and I graduated in November 2011. Then, I wanted to walk in the May commencement. Then,… Read more »
diy: comic book shelves
The paper bag from Million Year Picnic had been sitting on the dining room table for several days. At times, it had been shuffled into the dining room, or dropped on the bookcases in the hallway. It contained three single issues and a skinny anthology. These newest comic books—and smaller caches around our apartment—had no… Read more »
top of the week, 06.22.12
This week was pretty incredible: I tackled a simple, and hugely transformative, DIY project on Sunday, I spent Monday and Tuesday at the An Event Apart conference in Boston—I am so grateful to my employer for making that possible—and amazing things spun out of it, and I hunkered down in the air-conditioning for mini-marathons of… Read more »