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Putting daisies on a wombat: a day in the life making comics

May 13, 2021

apocalypse, Blog, comic, comic book, comics writing

This wombat is not wacky. Yet. Where does the time go? Here's where the time goes! When you make comics, sometimes you spend an hour discussing where to position a daisy on the top hat of a wombat. It's...

Who’s ready for the next apocalypse? Let’s start Preppin’ and Buggin’!

Colin Devonshire

April 17, 2021

apocalypse, Blog, comic, comic book, comic book review, comics writing, prepper, prepping, survivalist

(Don't) get an axe Preppin' and Buggin' By now I hope you’ve read the second book of By the Time I Get to Dallas. (If you haven’t just head to the online store to pick it up in print or digital.) Small spoi...

One Year with Covid: the Good, the Bad, the Comics

Colin Devonshire

March 23, 2021

Blog, comic, comic book, comic book review, comics writing, crowdfunding, kickstarter, Uncategorized

What? What?! Stay tuned for By the Time I Get to Dallas #3. Pencils by Juanfran Moyano. Let me clear my throat So where were we? There are a lot of strands running through old Duder’s head as we pass the ...

“Together these are a really fucking great book.”

Colin Devonshire

February 22, 2021

Blog, comic, comic book, comic book review

Got a great review of By the Time I Get to Dallas #2 and The Trinity Project by creator, editor and all around indie comic guru Chuck Pineau. Check it out and follow him on Youtube! One of my favorite quote...

Nerd talk, a Book #3 sneak peak, and 48 hours left to get the Creator’s Edition…

Colin Devonshire

February 2, 2021

Blog, comic, comic book, comics script, comics writing, crowdfunding, kickstarter

Talk Nerdy To Me An interesting question came up recently in a comic creators forum and it fits nicely with the By the Time I Get to Dallas Creator’s Edition, closing on Kickstarter this Thursday. ...

Level up your end-of-the-world coping skills with this comic book!

Colin Devonshire

January 24, 2021

apocalypse, Blog, comic, comic book, crowdfunding, kickstarter, prepper, prepping, survivalist, zombie, Zombieland

READ IT AND LIVE! Did you know apocalypse stories are good for you? We know this! An article in the Boston Globe caught my eye last weekend. In describes a paper published in the journal Personality and In...

SNEAK ATTACK! Special edition comic launching 1/20-2/4/21 on Kickstarter!

Colin Devonshire

January 19, 2021

Blog, comic, comic book, crowdfunding, kickstarter

SPECIAL EDITION - LIMITED TIME Allow me to be succinct for once. Here's what's up: By the Time I Get to Dallas #2 is printed and shipped to all backers and is now for sale to everyone through my online ...

By the Time I Get to Dallas on sale now at seven New England Comics stores!

Colin Devonshire

December 6, 2020

Blog, comic, comic book

We’re officially on sale at all seven New England Comics shops! I found it in Brookline, I’ve heard from someone who bought it in Quincy. First time seeing my book for sale on a shelf without putting it ther...

Kickstarter advice from someone who has done it exactly two times

Colin Devonshire

November 24, 2020

Blog, comic, comic book, crowdfunding, kickstarter, list building

A comic book creator found me on Kickstarter, presumably by doing homework and seeing what books had been successful recently, I don't know. They asked for some advice and I ended up writing quite a bit, it was...

Black Lives Matter, and the chapter we skipped

Colin Devonshire

June 3, 2020

Blog, comic, comic book

Work to do My high school history teacher skipped the chapter on slavery. This was around 1990, at a prestigious New York City prep school. The teacher was himself an institution there, much loved by genera...