I’m Going to San Diego This Year!
We are long past the days when you could up and decide to go to the San Diego Comic-Con, which starts in two weeks, but somehow, I managed it. (With thanks to a friend with a hotel room, another friend...
View ArticleComics Worth Reading Named Best Comics-Related Website
I am touched and honored to have been named “Best Comics-Related Website / Publications” in the Tripwire Awards 2022. I had the pleasure of meeting up with Tripwire Magazine editor Joel Meadows when I...
View ArticleI’m in a Book of Sherlockian Monster Essays: Monstrum Opus Now Available
I’m very pleased to be one of the 17 contributors to The Monstrum Opus of Sherlock Holmes: A Compendium of Horrors Dr. Watson Dared Not Tell, a new collection of essays revealing the monsters secretly...
View ArticleWacom Intuos: A Trial Run
Thanks to the generosity of a publicity person, I had the pleasure of trying out a small Wacom Intuous tablet recently. Of course I knew that the Wacom was the preferred device for drawing digital art,...
View Article27 Years of New Comic Release Lists
For the last few years, I’ve been keeping copies of lists of what comics came out every week. It’s time for me to stop doing that, as my interests move away from that level of obsession, but I thought...
View ArticleRushOrderTees Review: Custom Tees, My New Favorite Way to Advertise My Site
Comics Worth Reading has never had a nifty logo, but my Sherlock Holmes in Comics site has a cool (imo), professionally designed (I think these two factors are related) one. Thus, when Rush Order Tees...
View ArticleHow and Why to Read Fanfiction
This is a guide for how to read fanfiction (or fanfic). But before we do that, bear with me. We’re going to start with the elephant in the room. WHY would you read fanfic? A bunch of reasons. No matter...
View ArticlePresenting on Sherlock Holmes in Comics at 221B Con This Weekend
This coming weekend, April 14-16, 2023, is 221B Con in Atlanta, and I’m thrilled to go! It’s a fan-run gathering for those interested in Sherlock Holmes, any version through the ages, and it’s a...
View ArticleI’m on the News Talking About Free Comic Book Day
One of the local channels, NBC 15, sent a camera to Westfield Comics for Free Comic Book Day yesterday. Here’s the coverage on their website, where I’m quoted in the text article. The video there aired...
View ArticleKiss Number 8
We not only live in changing times, but we live in quickly changing times. Kiss Number 8 came out in 2019, and as the story of a girl realizing she’s gay, complicated by the unspoken family history she...
View ArticleMagnetic Press Study in Scarlet On Sale This Weekend
Earlier this year, Magnetic Press released a gorgeous version of A Study in Scarlet. This novel by Arthur Conan Doyle is the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes, and this version is illustrated by...
View ArticleFind Out What I Don’t Like About Sherlock Holmes in Comics
I was honored to be asked to contribute an essay to Reading Holmes!, a book now crowdfunding. It’s about different approaches to reading about Sherlock Holmes. My essay is titled “What Makes a Good...
View ArticleBook Review Philosophy Found in a Continuation Novel
I’ve been reading Thrones, Dominations, by Jill Paton Walsh, although I don’t enjoy it. It’s one of those continuation novels, adding to Dorothy Sayers’ Lord Peter Wimsey series long after her death. I...
View ArticleReading Holmes! Available Now – I’m in It!
Reading Holmes! is a collection of essays about different ways and methods of reading about Sherlock Holmes. I talked a bit about it when the crowdfunding campaign was running; my essay is on “what...
View ArticleA Death at the Dionysus Club
A Death at the Dionysus Club, by Melissa Scott & Amy Griswold, is the sequel to Death by Silver, and I liked it more than the first, which is always a good thing. Ned Mathey and Julian Lynes are...
View ArticleVincent Mallié Wins Doylean Honor for A Study in Scarlet
Magnetic Press not only puts out graphic novels, they also release art books, and one of them was right up my alley. I’ve mentioned their edition of A Study in Scarlet before, when it was on sale last...
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