HIGHWAY 62 REVISITED available now.

HIGHWAY 62 REVISITED available on the Kindle now. 1200 pages of commentary and writing on comics, music and horror by writer Matt Maxwell.

Interview with artist John Coulthart, from 2010

EDITOR’S NOTE Originally posted in 2010. I don’t even say anything mean about steampunk in it. That’s how old it is. — Lovecraft is a hard act to follow, and an even harder one to adapt. “Oh you mean HP Lovecraft, the guy who came up with Cthulhu and all those cute little plush toys.” [...]

Why are you reading this?

Seriously. I’m blogging over on tumblr by and large, and not here. Here’s the link. http://highway62.tumblr.com/ I may occasionally post longform stuff here, but likely not for some time.

Highway 62 Revisited

aka Highway 62 resumes tumblr service. HIGHWAY 62 REVISITED Right now it’s a research repository for THE GLASS DIAMOND, which I may start to write next year, not sure yet. Still, interesting even if you’re just looking for something out of the ordinary.

FULL BLEED breaks a promise

Hey, I got rooked too. I thought that this new DC thing was actually something. Full reboot. Death to continuity. Start it all over without a debt record. Go all Tyler Durden on that backstory.

Well, as it turns out, not so much.

On the big news

FULL BLEED SUPERTHEORY OF SUPEREVERYTHING DC went and did it. Day and date digital. Okay, they did some other stuff and I’ll get to that eventually. But the big one, and don’t kid yourself is going day and date with their print and digital comics. For those of you unclear on the term, this means [...]

FULL BLEED returns from the grave.

MAKE ME A DEAL AND MAKE IT STRAIGHT I was skimming THE FIFTH COLOR just a little while ago and some thoughts jarred loose, particularly since Carla was talking about first comics and how that’s a uniquely comic book reader phenomena (as much as the origins game, so wryly played with in the pages of [...]

Point: Missed

Go ahead and click on this link. It’s work safe, but probably not brain safe. So part of me loves this idea if not for the simple fact that in a perfect world, it would re-introduce the concept of accountability into internet discourse. In a perfect world. You know, the one where if you call [...]

AND HE SHAMES ME FROM MY SEAT

Where I’ve been lately. Where I might be in the future. Pictures from airplanes and lyrics stolen from Neko Case.

FULL BLEED 2000-2010 – 5

PART 5: NERVOUS MESSED-UP MARIONETTE 2000 started and I wasn’t writing comics or writing about comics or blogging about them. I didn’t know what a blog was, nor did most other people and if you did you’re lying. There were discussion groups on Genie (where I hung around the Neil Gaiman forum for a time) [...]