Last week was the Flow Conference, which I did some graphics and organizational work for. I also co-moderated a panel on the role of video game studies in the academy, convened by Judd Ruggill and Ken McAllister, co-directors of the Learning Games Initiative.
In addition to the rousing discussion sparked at that roundtable and at […]
Jack Chick has been publishing evangelical comic-book-style religious tracts, known as “Chick tracts” for several decades. I grew up in a house with an ironic collection of these — one of my father’s coworkers apparently left them in all the breakrooms at the plant, where my father would pick them up and bring them home […]
I’ve been listening to the Grinderman album a lot, and I have to say, it sounds more or less exactly how I would anticipate an album by a band involving Nick Cave and Warren Ellis to sound. If you like Nick Cave and/or Warren Ellis, you will likely enjoy listening to Grinderman. (And, actually, if […]
May 5 is 2007’s Free Comic Book Day. Free Comic Book Day is more or less exactly what it sounds like — a day on which comic book stores let you come in and pick up (for free) special titles released for the occasion. Obviously it’s still a ways off, but in the meantime, the […]
I forgot to mention that I attended the always excellent Flatstock on Saturday. The show hits Austin during SXSW every other year, and I’ve picked up a few beautiful things there over the years. Several have been given as gifts, but I’ve obtained some art of my very own. I’m particularly partial to pieces […]