Manton Reece
User experience, Mac programming, feature animation, and other personal views.

STAPLE! in Austin today (year 4)

Like independent comics and art? STAPLE! is in Austin today at the Monarch Event Center, off I-35 and 2222. I've been on the STAPLE! planning committee for four years now and have enjoyed watching our little show grow from its... Read More
March 1, 2008 09:30 AM

STAPLE! 2006

It's not often that I get out of the house early on a Saturday, but STAPLE! The Independent Media Expo is today. If you are anywhere in the central Texas area, check out the web site for the schedule and... Read More
March 4, 2006 08:34 AM

Staple!

For comics fans in Texas, the Staple! Expo will be held in Austin this Saturday. The Austin Chronicle has a story on it. Congratulations to Chris Nicholas for organizing the event since mid-2004. It should be a fun time. John... Read More
March 3, 2005 01:48 PM

Comic Book Idol

I can't say that I'm a big comic book person anymore, at least not the way I was as a kid, eagerly awaiting the weekly shipment of comics to the local shop. Recently I've read books like Understanding Comics that... Read More
June 9, 2004 11:31 AM

Watterson and the New Year's Eve blog post

The way I blog, I gather bits of news stories or other blog posts and write up an opinion on them for later blogging. Then when I feel like posting something, I go through the queue of things I've written... Read More
December 31, 2003 10:38 PM

Independent comics

I've been digging back into comics lately, hence some of the comic-related posts. One of the things that fascinates me is the abundance of great web comics out there. Tons of artists who haven't quite found the right business model,... Read More
December 8, 2003 12:21 PM

Peppercoin and web comics

It's been a few years since Scott McCloud's Reinventing Comics was published. In that time, a couple digital cash companies have probably closed their doors, and thousands of web comics have been created by artists with little expectation of even... Read More
November 18, 2003 04:07 PM

Understanding Comics

For Christmas I received a copy of Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics. I was familiar with his work only from his web comics (the I Can't Stop Thinking series is particularly good), but never read his books. Turns out, it's excellent.... Read More
January 30, 2003 08:16 PM