The cartoonist behind "Incredible Doom". A graphic novel series from Harper Alley, about teenagers getting their lives turned upside down by the early internet.
Thinking about early 90s computing over the last couple years my comic drawing Incredible Doom [http://incredibledoom.com] has given me a fondness for software that seems restricting, yet is oddly focusing. Software like that these days seems like plain vanilla ice cream. Simple and really good. Which is why
Illustrations
Several months ago, novelist, comedian, poet, storyteller, and president of Write Bloody Publishing [https://writebloody.com], Derrick Brown [http://www.brownpoetry.com] wrote me with a plan. A friend of his was redesigning a huge building in a small town and wanted to turn it into a collection of shops
Backup Stories
A panel from “Girls”, a patron exclusive comic.If a you’re a Patreon member at $10 or more you can now read all 70+ pages of members only Incredible Doom comics on one page [https://www.matthewbogart.net/incredible-doom-backup-stories/]. Being able to explore these stories that
As I’ve been spending the last couple weeks re-invigorating this blog with a new host, CMS, and other fun features, I’ve come across things that should have been posted here that never were. For example, last October my Incredible Doom collaborator Jesse Holden and I were guests
comics
After my last comic ended, I made a list of everything I’d always wanted to do in comics but hadn’t. Inspired by Oregon History Comics by Sarah Mirk and Monster Box by Tien Pham & Lark Pien, making a series of pocket-sized books in a cardboard slipcase
I’m not much of a blogger but I’ve always wanted to be. The value of keeping a blog for reasons beyond just sharing links to my work has been obvious to me for a while now. Watching folks like Austin Kleon [https://austinkleon.com/], Andy Baio [waxy.org]
If you are a Patreon [http://patreon.com/matthewbogart/] supporter of my comic series Incredible Doom [http://incredibledoom.com/] update your address, because the slipcase for season one and the patron exclusive Issue # 0, featuring 70 pages of exclusive Incredible Doom comics, are about to go in the mail. Both
> Years ago I borrowed this copy of Italo Calvino’s If On A Winter’s Night A Traveler from my father-in-law, and when I opened it up I found Calvino’s 1985 NYTimes obit and stories from a 1983 Harper’s.I was so surprised and delighted
Good reminder. Having a quick, easy way to say kind things to others is one of the best features of Twitter. SMS too. > If you're a fan of a comics creator, remember Tom's advice, maybe let them know how you feel about them/their work
Two weeks ago, I returned home from visiting family in Canada. They’d given me a check for inheritance my aunt had left me. On the ferry ride back to the states I talked with my girlfriend, and we both decided I should put in my two weeks at my
Backup Stories
[https://www.patreon.com/posts/backup-story-ran-31676143]I just posted a new 16 page backup story [https://www.patreon.com/posts/backup-story-ran-31676143] exclusively for Patreon backers. It was a experiment to try and write and draw 10 pages in 10 hours but ended up being
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[http://incredibledoom.com/]THE END OF SEASON 1 Season 1 of Incredible Doom [http://incredibledoom.com] is now complete and the whole thing is online for free. Featuring unlikely friendships, daring escapes, love, crime, and magic, all squeezed over 2400 baud modems. All six issues are available on this site,