MadInkBeard | Derik A Badman

This blog is now seven years old.

Yesterday was the 6th blogiversary of Madinkbeard the blog. As in recent past years (read last year’s), here’s a rundown of stuff from the past year: On Phoenix 6: Nostalgia: “Nostalgia” starts out weird and crazy and ends up weird and cartoonishly absurd (yes, I do feel guilty using “cartoonish” in such a negative context). [...]

Today is the 5th anniversary of this blog. My first post was deleted awhile back, but you can see the very brief archives remaining for my first month of blogging in April of 2004. I’m going to repeat what I did for last year’s anniversary, by offering selections from the past year’s posts (in chronological [...]

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 [...]

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!). [...]