August 28, 2002 Wednesday August 28, 2002

As promised yesterday, here's your link to the charitable-cause bonus strip: (No, not that link. That's the link to yesterday's open letter. Keep reading...) Head on over to the Altbrand MDA 2002 Webcomic Telethon, where a number of webtoonists, including yours truly, are running strips to encourage folks to donate… Read more

The Online Debut of the Boxed Set Bundle Tuesday November 2, 2010

I'll be at Webcomics Weekend on Saturday and Sunday, where I will be selling Schlock Mercenary 5-book boxed sets, plus the sixth book, Resident Mad Scientist, for just $100. That's the price of the boxed set by itself, so it's like getting book six for free. But not all of… Read more

The Sketching Begins! Thursday January 23, 2025

Book 18, Mandatory Failure, has arrived from the printer. I’ve signed about 2500 copies, and we’ve begun queueing those up for sketches. A few stacks of MANDATORY FAILURE awaiting sketches from Howard My stamina is not what it used to be. I’m as fast as ever, but I wear out… 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

Come See Me at SLC FanX! Tuesday April 15, 2014

Sandra and I will be at the Salt Lake Comic-Con "Fan Xperience" this Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. We're exhibiting in booth 2017. Travis, our colorist, will also be at the event, and you can find him in Artists Alley, table Q10. Oh! The treasures! When we moved from two storage… Read more

Auction Time! Tuesday September 16, 2008

By Sandra Tayler As promised we are now offering the special Teraport Wars #0001 Sketched edition. On the final page of this book Howard will illustrate the character of choice in full color. This is a unique piece of Schlock history. Don't let it go to someone else! Place your… Read more

Full Plate Progress Report Wednesday December 15, 2010

In the last two weeks I've succeeded in doing almost exactly four weeks of work. Which is nice, because I love my job enough that getting to do extra work each week is like getting to have the job for longer. But I haven't seemed to be physically able to… Read more

Party at the Keep - TODAY Saturday May 20, 2006

Last night I finished the 100th sketch-edition of the book. The packages are in the mail now for over 80% of our paying customers. All that remains is about 200 sketches and some bonus stuff for a few APO orders. (Schlockers in the military will be getting what hopefully amounts… Read more

Back to the Drawing Board Tuesday April 3, 2012

World Horror was fun, and emceeing the Utah's Biggest Liar contest was a hoot, but it's time to get back to work. Oh, I could relax. The buffer has been topped off, and a book and a board game are off to their respective printers. I could spend the next… Read more

Wednesday September 7, 2011

Get Your Wallets Ready... Tuesday September 11, 2007

Schlock Mercenary: The Tub of Happiness is being sent off for printing this week. It is 240 pages long, including nine pages of what one trusted pre-reader called "the most satisfying bonus story ever." The full-color book includes all the strips from June 12th, 2000 through November 11th, 2001... that's… Read more

Coming to Gen Con Indy Saturday July 30, 2011

I'll be at Gen Con Indy next week, and I'm going to have some fun stuff with me. I'll also have some brand new stuff. All of these things will appear in the store eventually, but they're debuting in Indianapolis: Dice! I only have 100 of these Tagon-logo six-sided dice… Read more

From the Department of Finally He Gets Around To It Thursday January 7, 2016

Last year I commissioned a bonus story for Force Multiplication. The story was written by Sandra Tayler, and illustrated by Natalie Barahona, and it was supposed to be lettered by me. Well, now it’s finally getting lettered by me. This is a story from Bristlecone’s past. You’re looking at about… Read more

RMS Cover Inks: No Way Is This Canonical Wednesday March 17, 2010

In this strip the narrator declares that perhaps the book "had a really shiny cover, and you bought it, and after reading it you looked back at the cover and thought hey... that wasn't even in there." Ever since writing that bit of narrative I've known that the cover for… Read more

Thursday January 20, 2011

Guest Art from Kevin Wasden Thursday March 15, 2007

Kevin Wasden and I got to hang out together at LTUE XXV, and he did a great sketch of Tagon. Naturally I wanted to extend a personal invitation to him to provide some guest art for the next Schlock book. He was excited to participate. I've gotten a lot of… Read more

Keeping Score Friday August 11, 2006

For those who are interested, I've got a Live Journal that I am updating regularly for the next 12 days or so in order to "keep score" on the work I do before departing for Worldcon. It's like this. In order to attend, I really need to have most of… Read more

Forty Looks Just Like Thirty-Nine, Only Rounder Saturday March 1, 2008

Thanks for all the kind Birthday wishes, everybody. I've gotten tons of email and postcards, and had a fine birthday. I don't have time to put up an updated postcard-wall picture. I need to get back to work today. This Bonus Story isn't writing itself. I posted my thoughts on… Read more

Tron Legacy Soundtrack: Made of Awesome Thursday December 9, 2010

I picked up the Tron Legacy soundtrack on iTunes yesterday, and it is wonderful. Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, AKA "Daft Punk" deliver some of their signature grooves, but also brilliantly mimic some of the best recent film scores from Hans Zimmer, Harry Gregson Williams, John Powell, Christophe Beck,… Read more

Wednesday August 30, 2006