When I first moved to NYC in 1998, I wanted to be a comic artist. Before they folded, Kitchen Sink, Caliber, and Paradox Press all showed interest. An inker for DC Comics, who also worked as an art teacher at...

Monica continues to contribute and inspire, even after her passing in 2007. This is one of my favorite paintings of Monica, and it still hangs on the wall in my studio. I completed it while she was still alive, and I...

The latest convention I'm attending This weekend I'll be at the Dallas Authorcon. For the third time, I'm visiting, and it's getting bigger every year. Producer Merrill David is also releasing his new anthology, Tumble Bleed, which includes my story, Flannel...

The government in hot pursuit! I first got the bug to rebuild trucks when, as a teenage punk rocker living in a bad neighborhood in DC, I got a small settlement from an accident, and used it to buy a...

Monica was always my biggest fan and greatest supporter. I make sure to thank her in every book I release. She died in 2007 in a hit-and-run, and the NYPD mangled the investigation (most likely because she was a...

The Great State of Texas. I remember one rainstorm so intense, I couldn't even see the sides of the road. It was spring, I lived in Virginia then, and the watery deluge was so intense I didn't know where I...

I don't know if this really qualifies as a negative review or a backhanded compliment? "I rate this book 3 out of 5 stars for its great narrative and a deduction of 2 stars for its disturbing drawings."