By Peter This week is a filler week between chapters while Amanda does some work to help me with publicizing the strip. Last month’s issue of Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery (Don’t you love that name? Straight out[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Collaboration By Peter This marks the end of chapter 5. I am especially pleased with this page because I didn’t write it. I was talking with Amanda about how one aspect of Joshua’s mom’s personality was not coming out much,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Getting the Word Out By Peter I feel like we finally have enough pages that we can start seriously getting the word out about Coiled. It’s been interesting to watch my publicity attempts create a spike of interest, but settle[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Comments! By Peter For several months now, Amanda has been requesting that I put the ability for readers to comment back on the site. I had taken them out (see my reasons here), and with my limited PHP ability, I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Teapot By Peter Of all the objects Joshua’s mom could have shown him, why a teapot? The answer is that in the early days of computer 3D graphics, a teapot known as the Utah Teapot was always used to showcase[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In the Central District News By Peter Tom Fucoloro from the Central District News interviewed me last week, and did a little write-up in the blog. Check it out here: http://www.centraldistrictnews.com/2011/05/31/former-yesler-terrace-computer-lab-teacher-creates-web-comic-set-in-the-neighborhood Another report he did recently talked about how Yesler[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We Are Interviewed for TGT Webcomics Podcast By Peter TGT Webcomics (stands for “Two Guys Talking”) is a website that interviews webcomic artists twice a week. We were their 168th show, and I hadn’t expected to be able to last[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Recommended Graphic Novel: Hereville : How Mirka Got her Sword By Peter I first saw Hereville in the San Francisco Museum of Comic Art giftshop. The idea of a fantasy graphic novel for young readers set in an orthodox Jewish[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
More on Flashbacks By Peter One of my very favorite old movies, which I haven’t seen for years, is called Laura. In it, a young woman named Laura is murdered and a detective is called in to solve the case.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Flashbacks By Peter Flashbacks work particularly well in graphic novels. I find they rarely work all that well in regular novels. (Okay, I’ll admit I haven’t read Proust’s famous novel “Remembrance of Things Past”, which is apparently all one big[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…