Sean asked me why I am bothering writing books that will never sell. I told him to fuck off. And I should have left it there. But this never left my thoughts. Sean was living rent free in my head and...

What secrets will you find if you stare at a piece of art for three hours? Will truth open itself to you just by gazing at something long enough? The Three Hour Gaze was first suggested by a professor...

If you have a couple hundred dollars and two hours at a comics expo, what will you get? That's the question for this little report from the 2023 Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo. David went and bought...

Finding a place to live is tough. There isn't a lot of places available, and when they are, they are crazy expensive. A group of punks and drop-outs have discovered the decent enough place to live: in...

Watching UHF Programs during the 1970s. That was a way of life for the author when he was a kid in Illinois. His memory is filled with Giant Robots, Masked Wrestlers, and Cartoon Rock Stars. It was a...

So you want to be a successful bad writer. Well, who doesn't? We all want that sweet sweet hack writer money. And why shouldn't you have your piece of that cash pie? To get that lucre, we have compiled...

He is seeing the movie Casablanca in the theater. It is the first movie he sees in a theater since the Covid shut-down. This is a meditation on film and movie going. It is a love letter to Casablanca,...

What is the ultimate goal of giving money to artists? Is it more than just making sure the artist doesn't go hungry?  Is this the only way that art can be made, by throwing coins in a guitar case or pledging...

Can you join the National Novel Writing Challenge and cheat your way to success? Well, what do you think? Read the title. You totally can cheat your way to finishing a book in a month. Every November,...

How entertaining is it to open a box of random comics? We are not sure, but we are willing to let David find out. He has purchased a Halloween themed mystery box of 11 comics. Will he get the grand prize?...

 Every superhero has a reason for them being that way.  This book contains several hundred origins of superheroes. They were scientists inventing potions. They got hit by lightning. They were children...

How do you finish that book you've been working on?  Simple. You finish it.  I know. That is not great advice. But it's true. Let David Macpherson go through the ways you can get over yourself and finish...

Tim is a ratwarmer.  He has the power to bring people back from the dead.   During the FlipSwitch, some people got some powers. Tim got the power of reanimation.  It's not as great as it seems.  He works...

What is the best part of a detective story? We think it's the moment that the detective presents the evidence. The detective gives a list of strange, unrelated items and from them, the criminal is discovered....

How do you tell a friend that they are not good at writing? There is no good way to tell your friend that. You might as well burn that bridge of friendship and get out of the village as quickly as possible. We...

What's the one thing we know about Death?  He certainly gets around.  He has to travel all over the place. He is not on a pale horse. He is on ride-share. He takes trains and trucks. He rides up escalators...

What do you collect?   What is hanging around the house with you like an old friend?  This is a book about all the things in our lives that we keep even though we know better. What are the things we should...

If you say you write, people will ask questions. Here are some of my answers to these questions. They are crude and hopefully true. If you just keep writing, you are on the right track. I spend pages...

Is there the best place to write? Yes. And no.  The best place to write is the place you feel most comfortable to write. That can be in your house, in a hotel room, at a bar, or a coffee shop. Can you...

Here is a list that can be quite important to you.  There are certain things you can say that will end a conversation. Some are simple like, "The house is on fire." Others are more individualized, such...

What kind of writing can you get done in three days? David Macpherson wrote a memoir in three days. He liked it so much, he did it five more times. What you have in this book are the six small memoirs...

How do we climb to the top of a comic?  It's an absurd question, but there are a few comics where this makes sense. In 1967, Wham-O put out a comic book that was 52 pages and two feet high. It was called,...

What you have here is a collection of fifty brief, silly-ass stories. None of them are long, so you don't have to suffer through one for pages and pages if you don't dig it.  For this blurb, we include...

Argle-bargle means copious but meaningless talk or writing. And that's what this zine is going to give every issue. For our first issue, we tackle the question, "Regular or double stuffed?" This is a...

An argle-bargle is copious but meaningless talk or writing. In this argle-bargle, we tackle the question, why do single socks disappear and where the hell do they go? Spoiler alert: we offer a clear and...

What can you do with great pulp fiction titles? Well you can take these awesome titles and write your own brief stories. That's what David Macpherson did. He took these sordid assemblages of words and...

Diver Doug is a zinester. He makes home-made magazines. He plays his mandolin. He creates clay figurines. He works in pet shops and sleeps on the couches of friends or acquaintances. He is a free spirit...

 What is the best format for comic strips? The easy answer is in a newspaper in the funnies section. That is the one most will come up with. But there used to be another place where you could read comic...

Thank you for reading this blurb. There are so many things you are expected to read. Now you have to read blurbs to see if you want to buy this book and then read it.  There is a lot of people wanting...

If you were given a coloring book, what superhero would you like to color? We hope it is the Hulk, because we are knee deep in a long in depth discussion of The Incredible Hulk Coloring Book: The Dot...