Entries from December 2008

December 31, 2008

Merry Christmas (2008) and Happy New Year (2009)

Well, with the holidays on us, I haven’t had the time to write as much. I have had the chance to spend some treasured time with family. It always goes by so quickly, though.
Last year we had so much fun making our “Mann Christmas message,” that we decided to do it again.
I present it here [...]

December 22, 2008

“Normal” people don’t understand writers

One of my favorite Stan Lee quotes is when he talked about answering the question “what do you do” when he attended parties and social gatherings. At the time, some forty years ago, comics were really still on the bottom end of the reading entertainment scale and certainly considered as far away from “literary” as [...]

December 17, 2008

It all started…

I knew I first wanted to be a writer when I was a senior in high school. Granted, I’d played around with writing before then, mostly my own comic books I’d created, but it wasn’t until I took a creative writing class in high school from an incredibly encouraging teacher.
I’m sure it’s no surprise to [...]