About a month after my wife’s mom died suddenly, we received a phone call from Brian Peterlinz with some more unbelievably bad news: Our good friend Mark Evans had been found dead – murdered outside his Chicago home.
Mark – “Atwood” to his friends – knew countless people from all walks of life, and many of [...]

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It’s Tuesday, so the latest page is up here.
And, of course, my second story, Something to build upon, continues M-W-F right here.

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The new Sherlock Holmes movie got me to thinking about stick fighting

Where to buy

Hapkido cane techniques

Pre youtube stick fighting techniques

What Holmes was allegedly a master of

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Hey, a new review of Cash & Carry over at Optical Sloth.
Some exerpts:
“… this is a damned near perfect graphic novel.”
“The man can write and draw a mean thriller, and it’s always at least mildly impressive to me when a graphic novel just demands to be read all at one sitting. ”
“Check it out, [...]

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The latest page is up here.
And my second story, Something to build upon, continues M-W-F right here.

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So I’m thinking about doing a series of prints – sized to fit on 5.5. x 8.5 paper. I’m thinking that it would look like a series of old pulp detective magazines, only with a small bit of color and a black-and-white image. I did one:

And I think I have another one in mind. Question [...]

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Kris Dresen has a beautiful new story up here.

Teen-seen is a group blog by Echelon Press’ YA authors.

The Outfit is a collective blog by a group of Chicago area crime writers.

The Writer’s Medical and Forensics Lab

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The latest page is up here.
And my second story, Something to build upon, continues M-W-F right here.

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I had a great time at Printer’s Row last week but between that, fighting off a cold and taking some time off to spend with my daughters on their last day of seventh grade – well, I took a week off from the web.
But I’m back, and I’ve got new events listed on the events [...]

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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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