3 Animators That Will Explode Your Brain
You work hard. You show kindness. You pay your taxes. You just remembered you have to pay your taxes. You deserve to meet three animators that will explode your brain. There are no fluffy...
Category: Thoughtful Heckler
Spring 2015 Cartoon Preview
This article first appeared as a “Chick on the Draw” column in Luna Station Quarterly, March 6, 2015. This year’s animated lineup is out of control. There is no controlling it. Don’t try. You...
In 2015, You Will Read Interactive Fiction… and Maybe Write It
This post first appeared as a Chick on the Draw Column at Luna Station Quarterly, January 9, 2015. You may not know it when it happens, because it will sneak up on you in...
8 Things Arguing on the Internet Taught Me About People
This article first appeared as a Chick on the Draw column Dec 5, 2014 at Luna Station Quarterly For the past two years, between watching cartoons and doing other crazy crap, I’ve helped moderate...
5 Stages of a White Person Trying to Write a Person of Color
This article first appeared as a Chick on the Draw column Nov 7, 2014 at Luna Station Quarterly I am white. I make drawings and stories. I get some of these published. I take...
28 Silly Things About Interstellar
Oh my. I don’t always have beefs. I saw Big Hero 6 this weekend and was rendered nearly beefless. But the thing about beefs is once you have one good beef core, more beefs...
Drawn in Drag: Examining Male Voice Actors Cast in Female Roles
This article first appeared October 3, 2014 in my Chick on the Draw column at Luna Station Quarterly. Sometimes animation is sort of like SNL in the early 90s–it assumes men dressed as women...
The Bechdel Test Revisited: Women in a Hero’s Journey
This article first appeared as Luna Station Quarterly’s Chick on the Draw column, September 5, 2014 There are three reasons Alison Bechdel’s famous test–one canny gag in an indie comic strip from 1985–has been...
