Tri-Wizarding Transphobic Triennial: Three Years of J.K. Rowling, TERF Cult Leader

“J.K. Rowling has become toxic to the [Harry Potter] brand…”—casual reference on NPR’s All Things Considered this afternoon, December 16, 2022 (3:26 into the story on video games).

X-AMOUNT of COMICS [the 1963: WhenElse?! Annual] FAQ (SPOILER ALERT)

As followers on my social media know, I’ve been working on my satirical “ending” to 1963 all year (the working title has been the 1963: WhenElse?! Annual; now, it has been rechristened X-Amount of Comics). As of this writing (mid-December, 2022), I’ve penciled and lettered all of some 71 pages of the story and inked more than 30 of them. I am planning a wraparound cover (the original “cover” features profanity I’d rather not censor), and I may yet add certain pinups and shorter one-page strips, along with notes and text, at the end, rounding it out to an 80-page project. Follow me on Facebook for updates.

The Beginning of the End of J.K. Rowling

Warner CEO David Zaslav’s November 3 earnings call with investors has been widely heralded as great news for author J.K. Rowling, with headlines trumpeting “Warner’s Exec Doubles Down on Rowling,” and similar tripe.

This is completely erroneous.

The Ballad of Lise and Drake: A Taboo Space Opera

How a Marvel Freelance Assignment Inspired a Notorious Anton Drek Character

Elsewhere, I posted scans of a freelance assignment I illustrated in 1990, "Home is a Hard Place," from a script by Will Shetterly, for the Marvel Graphics anthology Open Space.

Books Without Borders: Recent Reviews

Updated January 7, 2021.

Since 2014, I have composed a number of reviews for book editor Tony Norman at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Here is a running list of the links (all have been for the P-G, unless otherwise noted):

Edie Ledwell Deserves a Better-Led Creator

In her new “Robert Galbraith” Cormoran Strike novel, J.K. Rowling reportedly savages her critics as a “woke Twitter mob” motivated by “cancel culture” and the sheer jealousy of a successful woman.

1998 Interview with Don Simpson on the Megaton Man Web Comic and Print

The following is the text for a Comics Journal column by Jeremy Pinkham from 1998 that never ran; I believe it was to be the first in a series of columns cover web comics. It was based on a brief interview with me; I suppose since it was largely about my now-defunct MEGATONMAN.com website, it was canceled, since the Journal (also now defunct) was in denial about the impact of the internet on printed comics). It is presented here for historical purposes only.

The Three Rs: Rat, Race, Writing

In a 2000 interview, Doris Piserchia (1928-2021) makes a number of quite revealing statements about the life of a mid-century, mostly straight-to-paperback SF and fantasy author:

The Summer of '85 and the Megaton Man Reprints That Never Happened

By the summer of 1985, it was clear that Megaton Man was the hottest title Kitchen Sink Press had ever published to that point.

What Makes GApds - Golden Age Public Domain (Costumed) Characters - So Different, So Appealing?

What is the appeal of Golden Age public domain characters?        Fans may rightly ask, and I certainly ask this myself: Why am I wasting time drawing Golden Age public domain characters, especially when I have so many creator-owned characters under IP (intellectual property, i.e., creator-owned projects like Megaton Man and Border Worlds) going begging?