Found in the Archive: An Unreleased Incredible Doom Print

A daily 10-minute dice-roll habit for tidying my house went so well I turned it on my digital hoard, and found a lost Incredible Doom print I'd forgotten.

Searching for SmarterChild

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

Side-stepping my imposter syndrome into a fantasy city

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.

Blogroll - A new Incredible Doom comic is out

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.

Incredible Doom: The Last Days of Evol House is on Patreon

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

Small E-Ink Reader That Changed My Reading Habit

A while back I read The Last Quiet Thing, a fantastic piece by Terry Godier, a piece about a twelve-dollar Casio watch compared to an Apple Watch, and why one of them is a product and the other is a relationship. I've been thinking about it ever

A new Incredible Doom Story

A new 32-page comic set in the world of Incredible Doom is coming to Patreon next week. The Last Days of Evol House follows what happens the night the bulldozers come for the punk house. Any paid member gets access the day it goes live.

How to track your comics progress with one line of code.

People keep asking what app I use for my website progress bars. It's pretty simple and I think every cartoonist might benefit from having them.

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.

Comics Industry

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,

The Chairs' Hiatus

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.

Behind The Scenes

Fresh eyed posts.

A technique for figuring out what actually needs fixing in my comics once I’m out of the weeds.

Newsletter

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

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.

Helioscope

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

"Did you enjoy it?"

I've been thinking about this interview Conan O’Brien did with Jon Stewart. They were talking about their early TV years — those first shows where every week’s ratings felt like life or death. The pressure made the job miserable. Stewart said that a few weeks into The

Northwest Museum of Cartoon Arts ribbon cutting

I visited Portland’s new Northwest Museum of Cartoon Arts, a beautiful space celebrating local cartoonists. A good destination for comics fans.

Patreon

New Creator Journal – Viking Funerals for Comics

Book pitches, project boxes, comics camp, and (trying) to learn to post without guilt.

The Chairs' Hiatus

A New Home for The Chairs’ Hiatus (Revised Edition)

A few years back, I put together a lightly revised edition of my first graphic novel, The Chairs’ Hiatus. It includes a handful of updated panels, some new pages, and small tweaks throughout — the kind of changes that come from looking at old work with a decade of hindsight. Until