MadInkBeard | Derik A Badman

There’s a great interview with Dash Shaw up at the French comics site du9. It’s in English, so go check it out. He talks about Bottomless Belly Button, BodyWorld, D&D, and more. An excerpt on something I’ve written about in Shaw’s book: NV: I’ve noticed that you’re also using many graphic signs and words to [...]

“My dad’s thing is that he likes a good story well told. That’s his phrase,” says Shaw. “If he walks out of a movie, he’ll slap his knee and be like [adopting deep voice] ‘That was a good story well told.’ I don’t believe that. I don’t go for good stories well told. I want [...]

Chippendale, Brian. Maggots. Picturebox Inc, 2007. 4″ x 6″, 344 p. $21.95. ISBN: 9780978972264. I listed Brian Chippendale’s Ninja as one of my favorite comics of 2006. It was my first reading of a long work by Chippendale, my experience up to that point a few brief pages in an anthology here or there. Long [...]

Those of you who know who E. Gary Gygax is have surely already heard, and those who don’t know wouldn’t care, that he died the other day. Gygax is forever linked to the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons as one of the co-creators (the most famous and recognized of them). I owe a lot to [...]

Josh Corey, blogs on poetry, but lately has also been doing a little blogging about playing D&D (that’s Dungeons & Dragons, kids) again with some friends. I too recently started playing again with some friends. Today he put up an interesting reply to a reader who questions why he doesn’t write fiction instead of gaming, [...]