Out of curiosity, I figured out when I decided cartoonist was the job for me. It was shortly after reading Spider-Man #18, which Marvel published in January of 1992.
Time from then till now: 28 years.
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