David Cairns is a writer, filmmaker and critic. Graduating from Edinburgh College of Art in 1991, he made several short films,...

I've known Chris Duffy since his days at Nickelodeon Magazine. More recently we've worked together on the late, lamented, SpongeBob...

The usual process in comics collaboration is writer first, artist second. A script is written, complete with dialog and a panel-by-panel...

As we face the new year we have many things to mourn, but the last year isn't among them. 2020 was the year from Hell. It was so toxic it...

It's slipshod and rotten, not keen Both scripting and plot are pre-teen But by golly gee! It's sci-fi 3-D! Folks flipped when stuff shot...

In this crazy year we're all isolated on our own little planets. Merry Christmas and happy holidays to each and every one, wherever you...

Some gunsel gets mad, there's foul play! A honey goes bad--like, astray! And >pant< is she stacked! Then Santa gets whacked! Oh, there's...

I'm developing a set of stickers that I'll eventually make available on this site. It will be a collection of monsters, aliens, weirdos...

Here are a few images by Jack Davis, drawn for EC Comics during the 1950s. I chose violent imagery because there is an inherent violence...

Drawings can have a life of their own. A composition can be a process of discovery. One of my first priorities is to keep life in a...

I recently watched the terrific British film Tiger Bay (1959). It's the story of a young girl who befriends a Polish sailor on the run...

The perfect host never complains He's gracious when he entertains When company's starving He does all the carving And serves them up...

I've been doing this art thing for quite a while. I started in comics as an inker way back in the 1980s, and somehow got my first job at...

"Hi! you've reached Surly Hack Studio. Leave a message and the Hack will call you back." That message has been on my answering machine...

One of my biggest influences is cartoonist Wallace Wood. Wood's art had an illusion of depth that was quite remarkable. On my Patreon...

I’ve been in comic books for a long time. A freelancer who’s lived job to job. A hired ink-slinger on superhero books who eventually...