Blogroll - What happened to Incredible Doom Vol. 3?
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.
An Honest Update on Incredible Doom Vol. 3
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 built a robot to fix my comic lettering.
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.
The last attempt looks like the others.
Two years of rewrites, failed attempts, and starting over. Then a few adjustments that didn't feel different from any others.
Student Work
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,
ComiXology Submit: Final Sales Numbers (2013-2021)
A decade late, here are the final sales numbers from my ComiXology Submit experiment: 5,699 copies, $443 earned, and why I'd never do it again. (aside from the fact that it's been discontinued)
The Tabletop RPG Products I'm Most Excited to Use in 2026
At the start of this new year here's what has me most excited about tabletop gaming right now.
Fresh eyed posts.
A technique for figuring out what actually needs fixing in my comics once I’m out of the weeds.
December Newsletter: Signed Incredible Doom copies — only at BuyOlympia
An update on new comics, a look at where to find signed & sketched in Incredible Doom books and limited slipcase sets, a roundup of recent projects, videos, and comics community news. Good stuff.
The Chairs' Hiatus Companion Book
"The Chairs' Hiatus Companion Book"—28 pages of bonus comics and illustrations from multiple artists—is now included with the Revised Edition. Here's what's inside and how to get it.
Holiday Sale on My Books and Prints
A good time to grab something for yourself or a friend — signed Incredible Doom books, prints, and more, all shipping free.
The Real People Behind Jimmy Olsen
I made a fun short about how artist Steve Lieber uses his studiomates as reference in his and Matt Fractions’ series “Superman’s Pall Jimmy Olsen". If you like this, I did a whole half-hour-long video with interviews with both Fraction and Lieber. You can get copies of the