December 06, 2000 Wednesday December 6, 2000

There's a new feature here at Schlock Mercenary, and it is decidedly unfunny, for which I feel the need to apologize. I'll continue to feel this need for maybe twenty or thirty minutes, and then I'll get over it without actually apologizing. I hope this guilt-denial mechanism of mine doesn't… Read more

Learning From a Master Monday October 17, 2011

I just got my copy of Tom Richmond's The Mad Art of Caricature: A Serious Guide to Drawing Funny Faces in the mail. As Tom Racine so wisely put it, "It does for cartoonists what [Tracy Hickman's] X-Treme Dungeon Mastery does for Dungeon Masters."  One 30-minute pass through the book… Read more

Alert of potential problem with schlockmercenary.com Sunday July 27, 2008

Note from Sandra Tayler If you have any difficulties reaching www.schlockmercenary.com over the next few days, please click over to www.schlocktroops.com. It has been set up as an alternate location for fans to get their daily Schlock fix. Please spread the word in the event of a problem. That is… Read more

Schlock Mercenary: Out From Under Thursday November 13, 2008

Schlock Mercenary: Out From Under is the title of the next book in the series. For purposes of folder naming, product codes, and the like, that name is reduced to the acronym "OFU." I'm sure you can think of impolite things to spell with that acronym. Please don't, though. Just… Read more

Schlock Mercenary Communities

There are several places online for people to discuss Schlock Mercenary: r/schlockmercenary on Reddit Schlock Mercenary Facebook Group Circvs Maximvs  Got one we don't know about? Email schlockmercenary@gmail.com and we'll get it onto this page! Read more

Tuesday July 6, 2010

Bold Words From Me in the Stripped Rough-Cut Monday September 19, 2011

With just 68 hours left on the clock, "Stripped" has funded at 155% of its Kickstarter goal. I'm excited to see this film, and I'm even more excited at the possibility of getting hours of bonus footage available if the project overfunds even more. More money means a better movie.… Read more

RANDOM ACCESS MEMORABILIA, The Kickstarter Tuesday September 19, 2017

Random Access Memorabilia, Schlock Mercenary Book 13, has launched on Kickstarter. That link has all the details, but here are some bullet points: Kickstarter and Backerkit are how we’ll be handling pre-orders for Random Access Memorabilia. The funding period is just 24 days. Books will begin shipping to backers in February… Read more

Force Multiplication Pre-orders are Open Monday May 23, 2016

You may now begin preordering Force Multiplication: Schlock Mercenary Book 12. Here are some links for clicking! $20.00: Force Multiplication, signed $30.00: Force Multiplication sketch edition, signed and numbered Do you need more than just one Schlock Mercenary book? We have a bundle for you that shaves $50 off the… Read more

Scrapyard Recoloring is Done Wednesday February 4, 2009

Two hundred and thirty-three rows of comics, almost a thousand panels, nigh on twelve hundred different Photoshop layers... and it's finally all done. Lessons learned: 1) These take ten minutes each, but only if I decide I don't really care. 2) I really care. 3) Budgeting forty quick-and-dirty hours for… Read more

Monday January 17, 2011

The Blógünder is Back Thursday August 10, 2006

Big thanks to Daniel Meyer for his help getting php to work on the home page at schlockmercenary.com. You can again read what I've been writing about. As an added bonus, this is a live-updating script, rather than a polling solution. What does that mean to you? It means that… Read more

Book Bomb Benefit Wednesday April 10, 2013

Today, April 10th, numerous friends of Dave Wolverton (aka David Farland) are "bombing" his YA novel Nightingale and his writing guide Million Dollar Outlines. What's a book bomb? It's when a large enough group of people all buy a book on the same day to affect Amazon's sales rank for… Read more

Blog Posts I Owe You Tuesday May 27, 2008

I owe you some blog posts. I still haven't written up my LepreCon adventures, and here it's been almost three weeks. CONduit was this weekend, and I skipped most of it, but got to meet (and converse at length, and record a podcast with) Michael Stackpole. Oh, and speaking of… Read more

This Just In! Howard in Boise This Saturday! Thursday November 3, 2005

This Just In! Howard in Boise This Saturday! entry, November 3rd, 2005 On Sunday I found out I need to be in Boise this weekend on some family business. In the spirit of mixing business and pleasure, I'll be putting in an appearance at Twilight Games from Noon to 6pm… Read more

Wednesday January 27, 2016

I Guest-Blogged at Inkpunks Wednesday March 14, 2012

If you're interested in how I craft some of my story-stuffs, I blogged about sub-plotting over at Inkpunks. As an added bonus, the blog post is full of comics! Also, I'm flying to New York for the weekend. Here's how to find me there!  And now, luggage... Read more

A week of comics done in two days... BAM. Wednesday April 30, 2008

I like being on my A-game. Monday and Tuesday of this week I knocked down a week of comics, scripting, pencilling, inking, and coloring. And it wasn't just talking-head stuff, either. The week I scripted and drew had elephants, fancy equipment, and impending peril. (Peril is difficult to draw.) Anyway,… Read more

62% More Awesome Thursday August 23, 2007

My buddy (and fellow Blank Label Comics cartoonist) Dave Kellett has a new book out: "62% More Awesome: The Third Sheldon Collection". The collection features every single strip since the previous Sheldon collection -- "The Good, The Bad & The Pugly" -- and includes extra strips he couldn't fit in the… Read more

This Just In! Howard in Boise This Saturday! Wednesday November 2, 2005

Oh No! New Site Design! entry, Wednesday, November 2nd, 2005 Hey, lookit that. You can read the subject line of today's blog without having to scroll down. I know, I know, most of you are just here for the comic, but every so often I announce things that you might… Read more