About
In my secret identity, I am a ninja cartoonist.
I’ve been drawing since I was about knee-high to a bottle of India ink. I drew comic strips for local newspapers in high school, and in college I was a political cartoonist for the campus paper and printed my own hand-made comic books. During the 1990s, I wrote and drew comic books for INNOVATION, Antarctic Press and Radio Comix.
I currently do occasional freelance and commission work and draw a weekly web comic, Hannibal Tesla Adventure Magazine, which can now be found here on this site.
I live in the Enchanted Land-O-Cheese with my wife Lute (also known as the Frisky Ferretlass); my daughters Gamera Rose and Rodan; two cats; a pair of finches; lots of fish; a snake and a hatful of ferrets.
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A list of some of my projects and published works
Commissions and Contact Information
Why yes, I also do commissioned artwork. Here is how you can get in touch with me.
I noted your posts about H. P. Lovecraft on Daily Kos. (For some reason, I have never been able to successfully register there, so I gave up.) I thought you might be interested in seeing a lecture on Poe and Lovecraft that S. T. Joshi delivered for our society back in early October. The URL of the full text is: http://www.eapoe.org/papers/psblctrs/pl20121.htm
Thanks. I will check that out.
Loved your Daily Kos article about introducing Little Rodan to D&D. I’ve played and run a fair number of games at my local store, and in my opinion, the art of DMing is not challenging the players, much less trying to defeat them; it’s about navigating the players through the story while making them feel like they’ve been challenged. (And dead PCs = no story.) Sometimes that will mean fudging die rolls or holding back with the monster’s most powerful ability or taking the PCs captive instead of killing them. Sounds like you’re doing a great job so far!