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In 1956, science fiction author James Blish, who would later go on to novelize the original Star Trek series, wrote a book called Year...
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Professional gamers, like any other athletes, require time to hone their skills and stay at the top of their game. But spending too much...
I remember the first time I saw Fat Jack’s. I was a freshman at Temple University and was going to a midnight screening at...
I spent the first thirty-five years of my life in New York City. For the record, and I assume many of you who are...
In 1956, science fiction author James Blish, who would later go on to novelize the original Star Trek series, wrote a book called Year...
Remember when you watched a science fiction movie or read a story or saw a comic that was holding up a mirror to our...
It’s that time of the year again, when Pumpkin Spice finds itself in everything from lattes to Pop Tarts to Oreos. But fortunately, there’s...
Ah, Halloween season. The grand time when, as my friend and burlesque performer Lillian Bustle says, you can let out your inner stripper. And,...
Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.” – Pablo Picasso. “Keep on Truckin’!” – Robert Crumb. Years...
Have you ever wondered what happens when the game of football meets the world of comic books? Well, in all honesty, the results have...
Hey, everybody! You may know me as that guy you know. Others may know me as the award-winning writer of Astronauts in Trouble and...
You guys know Burning Man just finished up? Maybe this is a bigger deal to me than it is to you, living in San...
Just to be clear… There’s an awful lot of un-American shitting on each other’s parades lately. Hypermasculine man-boys on the energized right are affronted...
There’s no doubt that the boldest and most personal fashion statement anyone can make is in one’s selection of t-shirt. Personally, I love them. ...
Thoughts and observations from August 2017. With all the talk about our supposedly long held American aversion to Nazism and Fascism, it might be...
Like everyone, I blame social media. I don’t like to bring politics to my Facebook wall, but seems like everything is politics, nowadays, so,...
I arrived at the hotel at 8 a.m., a half-hour early in July weather that already was getting sticky. My luck and planning bore...
So, this year is the 35th anniversary of the publication of AMERICAN FLAGG!, the comic book that demonstrated that I had potentially more to...
If your field of study requires some elements of written assessment or academic papers, then you need to understand the different types of formatting...
Here’s a question: How would superheroes clean their costumes? Avengers: Infinity War has made over $2 billion worldwide box office gross and is on...
On Monday, my legs were shot. Like, no energy in them at all when I walked, or moved them in any way. Stuck in...
This Sunday is Father’s Day, an actual holiday, dedicated to selling neckties to the fathers, uncles, grandfathers, big brothers, godfathers, and paternal role models in...
“It’s been an adventure. We took some casualties over the years. Things got broken. Things got lost. But I wouldn’t have missed it for...
What is it that inspires so many people to gape in jaw-dropping awe at the spectacular landscape and ecology of Pandora, the imagined Earth-like...
I have been drawing comic strips and comic books and writing movies since I was very little. My parents and grandparents and sister always...
After a 23 year stint in New York City, I’m now an inevitable resident of Los Angeles. It’s always been inevitable that I’d move...
Do you constantly feel like you’re trying to combat your own mental clutter when trying to manage your work desk or personal business matters?...
Happy New Year! It’s been a nice increment up in the calendar, right? Deadly blizzards, a volcano suddenly becoming active (and another showing scary...