MadInkBeard | Derik A Badman

Today, after what seems like months of build up, is Primary day in Pennsylvania. It’s also my 4th blogiversary. Here are a few bits and pieces from the past year that might entice you to visit the archives: On American Elf: “Comics is often spoken of as an art of subtraction or omission. What is [...]

Now official released to a ton of librarians my cover to the December 2007 issue of College & Research Libraries News. I was given the theme of Philadelphia because our January association meeting is here. Naturally I took a comic like layout. I also used a constraint for organizing the panels by Library of Congress [...]

Happy Blogiversary to Madinkbeard! It’s been 3 years since I started this blog. Originally very focused on literary constraint and the Oulipo, my love of comics and a not-unrelated-to-constraint interest in the formal elements of comics has lead me to the current state of this word dump. For all of you that have been reading [...]

Today is this blog’s second anniversary! Hooray. I haven’t converted all the archives over to WordPress, yet, but you can still see the earliest post that is up (not the first post or two as they have long been erased), my review of a book about Springsteen (who has a new album coming out Tuesday!). [...]

Dan Wickett of the Emerging Writers Network has another Lit Blogger Panel out and this time I am a participant. You can see my answers and those of the other participants (including some of my favorites The Mumpsimus and Chekhov’s Mistress) at this page. There a few people interviewed who I don’t know, so I’ll [...]