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Come here, 2020, I’m going to crush you

January 21, 2020

Blog, comic, comic book, crowdfunding, kickstarter

Onwards and upwards Ezra may have gotten an action figure or two from Santa... In December I started an end-of-the-year review of whatever the hell I did in 2019 but realized I had no interest in writing it...

Sizzle Sizzle

Colin Devonshire

June 14, 2019

Blog, comic, comic book, crowdfunding, kickstarter, sizzle reel

It's Getting Hot in Here Kickstarter: Launch Date 6.24.19 Last time I emailed about the magic of crowdfunding, Kickstarter in particular. Well it had better be Gandalf-fighting-a-Balrog level magical beca...

The Anthrax guitarist killed my comics career and cost me a year of my life!

Colin Devonshire

April 10, 2019

Blog, comic, comic book, rock music

Fistful of Comics The Anthrax guitarist killed my comics career and cost me a year of my life! That guy, Scott Ian. It was 2015, I had been working for 18 months on my first comic book. I’d gotten an in...

2019: Goals, panels and Banana Man!

Colin Devonshire

January 4, 2019

Blog, comic

Happy New Year! I personally feel like boiled crap after a stressful couple weeks around the holidays, with too much work in the ER, all the stress of the season, and very little down time. But it’s a new year ...

The continuing story of a quack who’s gone to the dogs…*

Colin Devonshire

October 29, 2018

Blog, comic book

...or the cats, actually. I'll explain. When we last left our midlife crisis-ing hero (me) it was 2013 and I was preparing for a one month sabbatical to start writing a graphic novel based on a dream I had abou...

Rock is wasted on the young

Colin Devonshire

October 14, 2018

Blog, comic, rock music

I'm digressing from comic books in favor of an equally frivolous mode of middle aged creativity: making noise. I’m late with the blog because I was too busy gearing up to play dumb rock music for drunk friends...

Writing down a dream leads to a lot more work

Colin Devonshire

September 16, 2018

Blog, comic book

March 3, 2011 I woke up from a dream at 4 am. In the dream a guy who is sort of me is raking leaves on a suburban street, as are his neighbors all down the block. One by one the neighbors drop their rakes an...

Dream Projectors: Nelson Kim on balancing life, art and fake cocaine

Colin Devonshire

August 31, 2018

Blog, comic book

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In my first blog I asked about your dream projects, creative ideas big and small you might be nurturing in your scarce free time. As my own responsibilities grow with every year of this mid-life, I marvel when ...

Using midlife crisis for good!

Colin Devonshire

July 22, 2018

Blog, comic, comic book

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THANK YOU! First off let me thank you for signing on to hear updates from me about my graphic novel, By the Time I Get to Dallas. Many of you have already supported this project in ways large and small, and e...