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Banner Tweaking
Here’s a quick comparison between drafts of my GenCon 2014 banners. On the left, the banner I thought was the final one. On the right, the one that we used after I let the design “bake” in my brain a...
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Telling the Printer to Take My Money
Page proofs and slipcase blanks arrived this morning. Hey, look what I can build! Book 11 (Massively Parallel) and the 6-11 slipcase (Munitions Canister 2) are go for printing along with a re-print of...
View ArticleThe Massively Parallel Shipping Schedule (Alternatively: “Why We’re Not Doing...
The calendars are arriving here at Chez Tayler tomorrow (Wednesday, November 19th.) I have a few hundred sketches to do, and those will be queued up on my game table so I have stuff to do when I want...
View ArticleHow My Project Budget Works
In 2014 I created a spreadsheet for project management that allowed me to be a little more realistic about what I can and cannot do. The result was that I had a very productive year in spite of losing...
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The Peanuts Movie
The Peanuts Movie is weird, and I’m conflicted about it. I’ll lead with this: it enters my list at #16, just a hair shy of the Threshold of Awesome. I doubt very many of you will feel the same way I...
View ArticleHiding From the Mariachi
My friend Rodney is a business blogger who writes some pretty insightful pieces that draw parallels between business practices and everyday experiences. He interviewed me for his site, and I got the...
View ArticleA Week of Feeling Famous
On Monday my friend Rodney posted “Hiding from the Mariachi” to the web. I linked to it, but neglected to mention that it was the first of a five-part series of blog posts that were kind of sort of all...
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Sunset Is a Pretty Word, But…
When I worked in the software industry a decade ago there was this lovely term we used when a particular product or code-base was being terminated. We called it “sunset,” and that lovely, red-orange...
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Force Multiplication almost ready to go to print…
Sandra and I have been grinding hard for the last week in order to get Force Multiplication out the door to the printer. Saturday we¹ arrived at a final cover. Monday we got test prints, in color, for...
View ArticleTools of my Trade
I illustrate everything by hand, using pencil and ink on paper. In the last three years my choice of tools for making comics has shifted a bit. Here’s the current suite¹: Penciling Since about 2016...
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