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Here are some thoughts on writing. When I’m big and famous you’ll pay big money for this so pay attention now while it’s still free.
For me, writing a comics script means working from the general to the specific. This is not the case with any kind of prose writing where I just dive right in. [...]

A couple of links and then tomorrow I’ll get back to writing about the actual experience of developing Gear School.
First Item: We’re a few years from fully-realized nanotech, and maybe a generation away from the kind of nano free-for-all that exists in sci-fi novels like Neal Stephenson’s The Diamond Age, but this has not stopped [...]

I may be late coming to this party, but I couldn’t let it pass with comment.
Twenty-five years ago today, Blade Runner was released. I think of this as the Big-Daddy of sci-fi films, not Star Wars, which came out five years before and was mostly a fantasy film with a sci-fi veneer. I think all [...]

Okay, where were we? Right, February 2005.
On February 23rd, I sent Dave Land, greatest editor since Harold Ross (look him up), a list of ideas. Eight to be exact. All of which are golden, of course, but he could only go with one. On the 24th, he got back to me and said that his [...]

Not a lot of time lately, for which I apologize. I’ll get into the rhythm of this blogging thing and start making some bigger posts again. Anyway, let’s get into the way-back machine and look at an interview I did with silverbulletcomics.com back in July of last year when Dark Horse announced that they would [...]

I love to read science fiction. And it’s probably my favorite genre in which to work. I figured that one of the things for which I could use this blog is to show cool little bits of research I find on the web. One of my main pastimes is to hunt around on the interweb [...]

Folks, I’ve been waiting for this and the day has finally arrived!
Gear School is now listed on amazon.com. That makes two books listing me as author available on that site. And not that it means anything, but that is exactly one more book than Harper Lee. Just sayin’.

Captain’s Log, Stardate 02.1606.2007
And here’s to Adam, our kind publicist!
In every production, it always happens that a part of the material does not work up and gets to be filed in some remote dusty drawe.
When we were creating the Ground Gears, some were discarded and put away.
Click on the images to see some of them.
Estudio [...]

Let’s look back to the very beginning of this series — the conception, if you will.
I used to work at Dark Horse Comics. Almost ten years total over a couple of stints (I almost wrote “tours” as if working at DH were akin to going into combat). After leaving, I still had a habit of [...]

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