I was thinking the other night about being 11 years old, and being afraid of my place in the world. I was kind of awkward, super skinny, a little too smart for my own good, and yet not really committed to anything because I didn’t know what I wanted to do with my life. I… Continue reading A Message to My 11 Year Old Self
Year: 2012
Best Comics of 2012
This was the year that I went entirely digital. It was also the year that my kids got more comics than me* *physical comics from All new Comics only…I still get a lot of comics from Comixology. Looking back at the end of the year, it was a pretty spectacular year for comics. There was… Continue reading Best Comics of 2012
Awesome FREE comics for your new iPad, Android or Surface
So you just got a shiny new tablet for Christmas, well now it’s time to load that sucker up. Luckily, ComiXology is available on all of the major platforms, and it’s the best way to read comics on a tablet. Even better news is that Image has been putting out some of the best comics… Continue reading Awesome FREE comics for your new iPad, Android or Surface
I Live in the Future
For most of my professional life the saying has been “Five years from now”, as in: “Five years from now bandwidth will be fast enough we’ll be able to stream HD video.” “Five years from now computers will be fast enough to render video in real time.” “We need another five years until a small… Continue reading I Live in the Future
My DIG London experience
I had my first ever speaking gig last week, when I spoke at the Digital Interactive Gaming conference on the subject of inspiring teams through innovation. I was incredibly well prepared, well practiced, had kick assed slides, and had what I thought was a pretty killer interactive idea. My talk, called “Innovation Days for Small… Continue reading My DIG London experience
My brother-in-law Chris
This has been a trying week for my family. On Monday my sister Annette’s husband Chris went in for an aortic valve replacement. He had a congenital defect which was causing his heart to pump less blood than his body needed, and it was making him weak as a kitten. Chris is a mechanic, so… Continue reading My brother-in-law Chris
The More Things Change
I had the opportunity to go to Toronto to visit my old buddies John and Charles at 70 Main Street. The boys from 70 Main Street did the redesign of TSN.ca back when we merged the TSNMax content back into TSN, and it was a sight to behold, still one of my favourite designs. I… Continue reading The More Things Change
Digital vs Physical comic shops
I came to a realization this week. We may have hit the time where there are more people with iPads than there are people with access to comic shops. I did a little math, and based it off London Ontario (where I live). We have 350,000 people in London. Adding in the places within 30… Continue reading Digital vs Physical comic shops
The Digital Comics List – October 2012
I’m mostly off physical comics, with the only notable exceptions being stuff for the kids, and archived collections for myself. By and large, just like with magazines, I’ve switched entirely to digital. With Digital, I also find I’m sampling stuff I never would have before, simply because I don’t have to deal with physically storing… Continue reading The Digital Comics List – October 2012
52 Posts in 52 weeks
I don’t blog anymore. I micro-blog a LOT (Twitter, Facebook, etc), but I went months without a post this year, and the worst part was a gross picture of my innards was the highlight of my blog. That ain’t right. I used to do at least one blog post a week, it was a summary… Continue reading 52 Posts in 52 weeks