It’s time to show Heathen City to the masses.  A bit nerve-wracking, I’ll admit. The artists, Ayato and Distasty, have been working themselves to death (or at least exhaustion) to churn out the pages while I’ve been trolling the various businesses with which I’ve had dealings in the course of running BDB to get the best possible deal. The artists need...

Aaaand production is underway. Just like that. Ten pages sent off to the artist, Ayato. Sketches by him, review by me, finalization by him and then coloring by Distasty. Production schedule is terribly short; the first issue needs to be done by January. That’s a crazy tight schedule, folks. I really wish there were more time for this first issue, at least....

The requirements of comic writing are very, very different from those of fiction writing. You get to tell more of the story implicitly; if you want a character to be hiding a gun in his pocket, you can show the bulge in his pants, the faint gleam of the butt in one or two panels, and have him whip it out later, without having to actually tell the reader that...

Bad Dog Books is fairly successful. More than fairly. Still, is it fair for the editor-in-chief of a cutting-edge publishing house for the furry fandom to rake in the money made on books and sink it into a project to satisfy himself? There was a time when all my creative energy went into writing.  From that period spawned, among other things, the story series...