Two weeks ago, I was having dinner with a scholarly journal editor, and we were discussing our writing. “Do you keep a journal?” he asked, and I had to admit that I don’t, exactly, and that this blog is the closest I’ve got to such a thing,...

So, there I was reading a couple of interviews with Kevin Smith, and giggling. In an industry that believes that every part of a movie performer’s life should be spent “selling the film,” it’s refreshing to read a filmmaker who’s willing to...

“I have to write about what interests me the most. If I don’t write about what interests me, it’s not going to interest anyone else. And you know, it’s the same thing—oftentimes I’ll sit here, and I’ll be writing a strip, and I’ll make...

Zine #2 is in the works.  (About 50 copies of #1, Letters to Mr. Konigsberg, are still available for $5.  Email me at wbiggins2 at gmail dot com for details.)  Here's a mockup of the cover by gorjus.  There are design kinks to be worked out, and I...

QB readers know that I'm a major Stephen Dixon fan.  Twice this year, I've lead you to stories by him and, each time, I've mentioned the floating, totally unverified, slightly crazy possibility that Fantagraphics Books--primarily a premier publisher...