In the early 2000s, there was a chatbot on AIM called SmarterChild. Thirty million people talked to it. That's a genuine cultural moment I apparently missed entirely. Now two filmmakers, Lindsey Sitz and Zan Gillies, are making a documentary about it, and from the footage on their Kickstarter
I've been told for years I should run TTRPGs professionally. I finally stopped arguing with everyone. I'm running Shadowdark on StartPlaying.games, and this link gets you $10 credit if you want to join.
A new 32-page Incredible Doom story is on Patreon. Plus Standard Ebooks, the volunteer project making public domain books worth reading, and seven other links worth your time.
![Title card: "INCREDIBLE DOOM [the last days of evol house]" in bold hand-lettered type over a pixelated red-and-yellow photo of a suburban ranch house.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9c/0c/9c0c3ed1-6073-42fe-82e4-7701884d4597/content/images/size/w600/2026/06/1.png)
I just published a new comic. The Last Days of Evol House is a 32-page comic set in the world of Jesse Holden and my graphic novel series Incredible Doom. It focuses on Ethan, the younger brother of one of the denizens of the small midwestern punk house known
A while back I read The Last Quiet Thing, a fantastic piece by Terry Godier, a piece about a twelve-dollar Casio watch compared to an Apple Watch, and why one of them is a product and the other is a relationship. I've been thinking about it ever
A new 32-page comic set in the world of Incredible Doom is coming to Patreon next week. The Last Days of Evol House follows what happens the night the bulldozers come for the punk house. Any paid member gets access the day it goes live.
People keep asking what app I use for my website progress bars. It's pretty simple and I think every cartoonist might benefit from having them.
This month: Recontextualizing for the win. Plus: the 24/7 stream keeping weird internet alive, what happened with Incredible Doom Vol. 3, and the Vlogbrothers continue to kick ass.
If you've been waiting for new pages of Incredible Doom Vol. 3, you've been waiting for a while. I owe you an explanation—and an apology for not posting this sooner.
I write my comics in Fountain, but pasting into Clip Studio brings all the markdown with it—asterisks, underscores, everything. Plus there's this comic lettering convention about uppercase vs lowercase I that I was fixing manually. So I built a macro that handles both. Free download.
Two years of rewrites, failed attempts, and starting over. Then a few adjustments that didn't feel different from any others.
Back when I was in high school in a small Catholic school in Ohio—I'd taken all the art classes that were offered and still wanted more. So they let me design my own independent study. I'd get shuffled off to the art annex and work,