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 by these
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 16 over 4 different days. Still
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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,
This year, at the XOXO Festival [https://xoxofest.com/] closing remarks, Andy Baio asked the attendees to write about their experience when they got home. If we didn’t have a blog he encouraged us to start one, to become active members of the indie web. I have a blog.
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About two weeks ago I took a week off my day job to do what I called the “Incredible Doom Logistics Vacation Week”. The logistical tasks, unrelated to writing or drawing the comic, had been piling up for months and I was starting to feel overwhelmed. So I took some
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If you, like me, enjoy having downloadable copies of your comics, to archive or read on tablets with page turns and all, I just uploaded copies of Incredible Doom #5 and 6 for Patreon members here [https://www.patreon.com/posts/26868456]. You can also get copies of all of
Conventions
Jesse and I are going to be debuting the series finale of Incredible Doom – s eason 1 at the Vancouver Comics Art Festival [http://vancaf.com] this weekend. (Apparently in exactly the same table as last year!) This is my favorite convention. So if you are in the area stop
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I posted this to the patreon a bit ago, but today I finally get to tell you three big bits of news Jesse and I have been working on for years. We didn’t want to talk about them till they were close to happening, but it’s finally time