Oh, did we need this.

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Well, the Christopher Handley case was resolved recently, he got a six-month sentence plus a mess of probation.
As I’ve said before, I don’t think a person should be prosecuted just for being creepy. But it seems, according to one report, Handley was dealing with material that current law could judge as obscene:
The offending material [...]

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Writers and artists make things up. If we’re lucky, we make things up that people like and want.
Rick Riordin made up a pretty good character called Percy Jackson and a world where the Olympians still ruled.
The books did amazingly well – I do recommend them. The movie, not so much.
Even with my very limited experience [...]

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Here are the daughter units just before the Blue Man Group show. Tickets were a gift for their 14th birthday.

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The interesting thing about being in two different publishing worlds – comics and mysteries – is the times when one world’s opinions don’t exactly translate to the other.
That’s the case with self-publishing.
In the mystery field, quite understandably, self-publishing is not well thought of. There’s a lot of reasons for this: You can’t get the books [...]

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Hey, I’ve been blogging here at timbroderick.net using Wordpress software for a year today.
Generally, I like the open source software, but upgrading is kind of intimidating – especially if you’ve customized a theme the way I have.

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Whew! I’m still tired from attending the Printer’s Row book fest in downtown Chicago this past weekend. I doubt I’ll have the energy to get a new comic up this week, but I’ll try.
Fantastic time though. Hung out with authors Norm Cowie, Julie Hyzy, Michael Black, Bob Goldsborough, JA Konrath, Luisa Buehler and a whole [...]

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I don’t what to say to Tom Spurgeon
The two great hopes for future reform don’t exactly encourage. That an entire generation of creators just now moving into their 60s may as a group be so spectacularly ill-prepared for the financial realities of old age that it somehow shames a movie- and licensing-wealthy industry into offering, [...]

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The majority of people who have read my webcomics series, Odd Jobs, have not compensated me in any way. Many have, but quite a few websurfers dip in, enjoy my work and then flit off to their next fix – whatever that might be.
I mention this not to make anyone feel guilty (although if you [...]

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One of the girls got the stomach flu Tuesday night/Wednesday morning, so while Kathy went to the annual New Year’s party at a friends house, the girls and I stayed home and had a Firefly marathon.
Wait, you don’t know what a sneeze-barf is? Obviously you haven’t been reading this.

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