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The mainstream comic industry put out a hashtag #PencilsDown which has later been coopted by people dancing on the graves of the comic book industry. The establishment of publishing is really stuck because of their monopolistic distribution deal with Diamond Comics. It means they can’t get any product out whatsoever. With the industry already in […]

Author Lou Antonelli is running for a SFWA board position, and as he’s looking into the process, he discovered SFWA runs their elections all through a survey site called survey monkey — where a couple of people have access to its results. I run my author surveys through this site to see what my audience […]

I’m a fan of the classic pulps, having studied what made our American culture so great in the first half of the 20th century, which then declined as the entertainment industry became weaponized as a political tool. Normal people, consequently, exited culture, which led to its slow spiral which started in the 60s, but reached […]

It’s unbelievable how dishonest and destructive SFWA is as an organization toward both readers and authors alike. Over the years, we’ve detailed on the blog their lack of standards for entry to the organization, their abject lies about minority authors, their troubles with pedophilia — and now they’re taking another step in their point and […]

If you watch my youtube streams, you’d know I had to move houses this week in the middle of this nutty pandemic. It was a rather stressful ordeal. I kept my family away from the new house and the movers while I coordinated everything, unpacked most of the items myself, disinfected the entire house with […]

Corona is having profound consequences across the nation, but one of the least talked about will be comic shops. There’s already so few of them, and they’re struggling to pay rent in many cases. This quarantine was already responsible for at least one closure of a long time store in California, but news that even […]

It’s come to my attention that the group of pedophile supporters formerly a science fiction professional organization is having an election for their board. The best part of all of this is their organization has become such a shit show under Mary Robinette’s nonsense — they didn’t have enough people filing for the elections to […]

My great pal David V. Stewart put together a nice collection of stories for FREE for folk to read on quarantine. It’s got a lot of great stuff which I have read personally and enjoyed, as well as a short story by me: “A Song of I.C.E. and Fire” which has notbeen released anywhere but […]

I was so refreshed to see a tweet by writer Rick Remender last night which showed a sea change in the way things are being run at these big corporate entertainment companies. Remender is a popular writer of the series Deadly Class, and of course, had quite a long stint at Marvel which were celebrated […]

Yesterday, someone brought to my attention their new unveiling of the New Warriors, covered by Bounding Into Comics, and I couldn’t believe my eyes. It looked like the company’s had a turnaround in the last couple of years from their constant pushing of complete nonsense on customers, but then they show this: The heroes nobody […]

Months ago, we all got together in our socially distant place called 4chan, and decided we were going to both ironically and unironically support Andrew Yang for president, in hopes of getting a thousand freaking bucks. It was a meme which had some great legs — and it looked like it died when Yang was […]