Incredible Doom #3 - Behind the Scenes
A mammoth collection of every bit of trivia that went into creating Incredible Doom part 3, including a timelapse of the drawing of almost the entire book.
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Links for quarantined kids from a children’s librarian.
My girlfriend, a children’s librarian, is working from home as many are. With so many folks at home with their kids, I asked her to share her expertise and curate some particularly good links for kids stuck at home. Here’s her list, pulled from a treasure trove of
Wuthering
Hank Green, talking about his illness on Vlogbrothers for the first time, instilled the first feelings of understanding and stability I’ve had recently.
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NEW COMIC: “Incredible Doom – Eternal September” #1 available to patrons months early.
Incredible Doom: Eternal September #1, the first issue in Season 2, is up for all patrons today, months before its public release. To those of you who are able, thank you so much for supporting independent art. Together we’ll get through this worrying time. In the meantime, have a
Note Pad – Enjoying Simple Apps
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
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Fascination Station – Designing a bookstore
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
Backup Stories Collection
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 didn’t fit
Jesse & I were on “Talking To Ghosts”
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 on
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How to Make Custom Comic Slipcases: Cost Breakdown (And What Went Wrong)
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 was
Re-invigorating my blog.
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]
Patrons: update your address
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
How to turn your books into time capsules – Austin Kleon
> 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 by these