About Me…
I’ve been writing provocatively on-line since around 1998: about Canadian film/TV, Canadian culture & identity, as well as about comic books and graphic novels. But I also occasionally write fiction, with stories published in Strange Horizons, Daily SF, On Spec, the acclaimed Tesseracts anthology (the 19th volume), and other places over the years. I mention this because I’ve put out a few pulp story collections. And if you enjoy this blog, essays, reviews, and/or any of my websites, one way to show support would be to check out MY FICTION COLLECTIONS and, if they look interesting…buy one! It ain’t PATREON or anything, but it’s a way of showing you think what I’ve been doing is worth doing, and would help keep this blog and the websites up.
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Category Archives: Comic Books
Dark Worlds Quarterly: looking at the past and present of genre entertainment
As I’ve mentioned before, this blog started out primarily focused on writing about Canadian film & TV — despite my having multiple interests, both personal and professional. The reasoning was (according to something I had read) blogs accrue more readers … Continue reading
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Behind-the-Scenes: “The Monster of Gander (Newfoundland, of course)”
This is another one of my (irregular) posts looking behind-the-scenes at individual stories in my collection of Canadian superhero stories — which I’m posting, well, in the hopes you might stumble upon this blog, get mildly intrigued, and buy the … Continue reading
What’s in a Name? Superheroes and National Identity
This is part of my irregular series of posts looking behind-the-scenes at the prose superhero collection, Masques & Capes: An Imaginary History. Obviously I’m hoping to promote the book, but I’m also reflecting on comic book superheroes, cultural identity, and … Continue reading
Behind-the-Scenes: The Canadian Film Biz..and Superheroes!
Today: another in my irregular series of behind-the-scenes pieces detailing some of the creative process behind the stories in my collection of Canadian superhero prose tales, Masques & Capes: An Imaginary History. Now, obviously, a writer banging on about the … Continue reading
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A Christmas Superhero Story…
I recently wrote a collection of short stories called Masques & Capes: An Imaginary History — adventure-mystery stories about superheroes. The idea was to imagine a Canadian superhero comic book universe, a multi-generational continuum stretching from the mid-20th Century to … Continue reading
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I Went to a Book Reading…and saw a bear.
(I don’t usually write these kind of autobiographical “day in the life” type pieces…so we’ll see how it turns out). I have a short story in this year’s edition of the annual Tesseracts anthology — the theme, this time around, … Continue reading
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Behind-the-Scenes: “Enter: Mosaic, The Multicultural Man!”
(Continuing my irregular series of posts delving into the creative thinking behind various stories in my superhero short story collection.) The idea behind “Enter: Mosaic, The Multicultural Man!” was, as with many of the stories in this collection, multi-headed. Part … Continue reading
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Behind-the-Scenes Story: “The Sinister Affair of the Group of Eight”
In my desire to promote my short story collection of Canadian superhero stories that span from the 1930s to today, I’m going to post a few pieces delving into individual stories and some of the creative decisions I made (obviously … Continue reading
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Blogging About Canadian Comics
I’ve been on a bit of a kick recently writing about superhero comics — and especially Canadian superhero comics. Traditionally this blog was mostly concerned with talking about Canadian film & TV. But my interests have always been broader, and … Continue reading
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A Canadian Superhero Universe…in Prose
Today I’m continuing in an irregular series of posts about my new book — both in the hopes that these’ll be interesting posts and also, obviously, in the hope that maybe as I delve into it, it might intrigue you … Continue reading
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