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GenCon!
For the first time in nearly a decade, I’m attending GenCon Indy. For the previous two decades, I hardly ever missed one. I am really looking forward to coming back. I hope to reconnect with many old...
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A Brief Look Back at GenCon 2011
I’ve been pretty out of it since coming back from GenCon. I talked a bit about GenCon in my Library Journal games blog, but with extra attention paid to librarian and educator considerations. Here I...
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Writing, Geeking, and the Kindness of Strangers
I don’t know what it is about having gone to GenCon, but I’m still feeling the side-effects a month later. A lot of good things resulted, but while I feel like I’m working my rump off, I also feel like...
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Art at TusCon
LAST WEEKEND I attended TusCon*, the local science fiction/fantasy convention here in Tucson. I missed it for the past few years, so it was good to go back. I made a point of matting and framing a...
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MangaMania and Prints!
IN A FEW hours I will be attending Pima County Library’s MangaMania!! where they are preparing for attendance by 1000 teens interested in all things anime and manga. I’m one of several professional...
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Magic Art
TWO DECADES AGO, I was attending GenCon, the big hobby-game convention around which the whole industry orbited. I had to miss this year’s convention, sadly, and I badly miss the inspiration of being...
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I’m writing this about 4 hours before I need to hop out of bed and catch a plane, so this is going to be brief (and unillustrated). I want to log a couple of those hours with a bit of shuteye. THANK...
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See What’s Become of Me
TIME HAS FLOWN by since I wrote here last. I’ve been recovering from being so ill, and it has continued to be a slow process. I went back to library work, just a smattering of short days only, late in...
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I’m Back
I’M BACK? AT least, I am coming back. Kinda. For the last of couple years, I have been … let’s just say “preoccupied” … while working to complete Deluxe Tunnels & Trolls. It only took two and a...
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IlluxCon 8
ILLUXCON IS JUST a week away now. I started a post for the blog long before now, but preparing for the show has captured my every waking moment. What art should I take. Do I need to make new prints;...
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Driven to Distraction
ILLUXCON WAS EVERYTHING I hoped for. I came away inspired in heart and mind, with a renewed determination to be and do the creative work I love. In the process, the show delivered many unanticipated...
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A New Year Awakens
HAPPY NEW YEAR. January 1st is just another day on our Gregorian calendar, the arbitrary mark of a new year, but every culture that marks time … which is to say, pretty much all of them … considers...
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Ten Things You May Not Have Known About Me
I WAS HAVING a groupfest dinner at IlluxCon a few months ago, and found myself in a peculiar but recurring situation. One of the fellows at the table only knew I did Magic cards. One kinda knew I had a...
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Life in Progress: Art and More
YEAAHH…. LONG TIME, no see. Again. Since we last talked, many projects have eaten my brain: artwork for MetaArcade‘s Tunnels & Trolls and story creation app, for GroupSNE (the Japanese translator...
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Illuxcon IX: A Brain Full of Change
A WEEK AGO, I was at Illuxcon IX in Reading, PA. This week, I am back home in Tucson but my mind, my heart, and whatever passes for my artistic soul lingers behind. No other event is quite like this...
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Art, Lemons, and Plans
I AM EXCITED. Something pretty astounding happened last week. How often does a person get to hear that the work they’ve been doing for decades is truly respected and appreciated? Not just in ones and...
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Grand Prix Las Vegas 2017
HEY THERE! Long time, with no updates getting written here? Sheesh*. But it’s high darn time I say something about Grand Prix Las Vegas, since I’ll be there in just a few days. GRAND PRIX! The last few...
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Gen Con 50, MetaArcade, and Flying Buffalo
AS RECENTLY AS seven weeks ago, I expected not to attend this year’s Gen Con until, on June 23rd, David Reid of MetaArcade asked me to reconsider. These are the folks bringing Tunnels & Trolls™...
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News, Conventions, and Nattering
TIME TO DUST off this blog! To say “I have been busy” is lame; we are all busy these days. Help yourself to a mix of upcoming news and a look at what I’ve been up to. I AM STILL LEARNING The prospect...
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Good Intentions: Retrospective
DORMANT, NOT DEAD: this blog, that is. The simple truth is that I have had another craaazy year. A lot of new art was created, and I did a little more travel than usual, plus a couple of surgeries....
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