Blog Archive

A case of the bright-shinies
Sep 10, 2021
Oh god, what a year it's been. This is me just beaming out a signal to this space to see if I can get it to the receiver...
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Self-publishing Resources for Zines and Minicomics
May 10, 2021
Long before the internet gave niche communities their own space to share and discuss issues, ideas, and news, underground independent magazines - or ‘zines’ - were regularly written, photocopied, and distributed. Here are some resources that might help you get started on your own in 2021.
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Comics is a river
Apr 30, 2021
Comics is a river; many voices travel in it; comic after comic moves along in the exciting crests and falls of the river waves.
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Tutorial: Paginating a Zine
Apr 29, 2021
Laying out a zine for print on image editing software doesn't have to be hard. Here's a demo of the pagination for a 16 page zine. This process can scale up to as many pages as you need for your zine.
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Comics Making for the Rest of Us™
Dec 11, 2020
In January I'll be starting a new online comics-making club with the aim of creating new type of learning space for comics-making. I'm excited to be launching it on Hyperlink Academy. Very excited. For a long time I've been trying to figure out how to teach comics from the ground up in an exciting, collaborative, and social way where the technology needed isn't too clunky. Hyperlink Academy streamlines it all.
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A Chatroom "on Rails"
Dec 10, 2020
Here's a look at a simple, user friendly chat room that utilizes WebSockets to perform communication via Ruby on Rails’ ActionCable using Rails 6 and Ruby 2.7
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Dog For Hire: Process
Jul 8, 2020
Here's some insight in the process of creating my neurotrash digital collage comics.
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Weather-Or-Not: Web App Process
Jul 7, 2020
Earlier this summer my buddy Missy Moreno and I decided to make inroads in learning how to work with React and APIs. We decided to make a cheerful weather web app that had some kind of suggestion system based on the weather forecast at a given location.
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As Serious As Your Life
Jul 6, 2020
Death is around the corner. How we come to terms with, that is the business of our living.
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Willful Blindness
Jul 1, 2020
History is not the past, history is the present. We carry our history with us. To think otherwise is criminal. -James Baldwin
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