I would say that I have a complicated relationship with my father if I didn't think that "complicated relationships with fathers" weren't the functional default. I don't know, maybe that's something I made up. Maybe I've just self-selected a cohort messed up for the same reasons I am.

The sky being the "limit" isn't as inspirational as you might think. Paralysis tends to be the only product that state of affairs produces in any volume. That's been my experience. Limitations, of one kind or another, channel the effort. It's the conceptual version of what Gabriel might call Negative Space.

Katie's finished all the pages, so the whole thing is up now. Thanks for reading!

I got into the Gestureworks Gameplay beta last night and I’ve been playing around with it all morning. I showed it to Tycho and we both agree it’s incredible. Let me tell you why.

I'm far, far less permissive than my own father was - also, less permissive than Gabriel, apparently. My son thinks "bottom" is a bad word, and I haven't corrected him.

Tycho and I flew down to L.A. a while ago to film an episode of Wil Wheaton’s Tabletop. The episode is finally up today and you can watch it right here. We played Shadows over Camelot which is an awesome game and one I had played a few times before. We played with Tara Strong who is a super talented voice actress.She was kind enough to record a message for my son and ran through a few voices of his favorite characters including a special "hi Gabe!” as Twilight Sparkle.

Attn. Pin Pals! The limited edition Hanna pin will go on sale in our store this Friday the 4th at 12:00pm PST.

I dusted off my Thornwatch game last night and ran it for a few friends including Mike Selinker. Mike is a professional game designer and I was really looking forward to hearing what he had to say about my game. I’d sort of stalled on the development for a few different reasons. The biggest one was I simply didn’t know what to do next. I've never done this before and so I don’t have a road map or anything. I got the game to a state where it is playable and people seem to like it. Each time I run it for a group I get some notes and make some tweaks but I didn't know what the next big step needed to be.

I never know what exactly to do with Twitter. I've started just using it for whatever, which is probably how most people use it. I don't know what my previous plan was; discourse? There are an assortment of non-me people who are capable of that. I can say a whole lot of nothing on there, very easily. When I try to do anything else with it, it's like trying to talk with a live mouse in my mouth.

We have invented a radical new expressive form: called the comic strip, it uses sequentially arranged, ostensibly humorous "panels" to simulate the passage of time. It leverages a compact structure. There is no reason to believe that such works will not come to define the age.

So the Tithe has come to an end. I think of it as Hanna’s origin story. This is just the beginning of her adventures as far as I am concerned. Thank you to everyone who has messaged me about the Tithe, the response has been overwhelming. There will be more Daughters of the Eyrewood in the future I promise.

Ten strips is probably the appropriate number for a project called The Tithe. It seems as though people enjoyed it, which I will gladly accept over the alternative. And it's not even done! I get to work on it forever. Knowing what I learned from this, I can shift gears over to the novels with no loss of momentum.

Just re-posting this since it didn't stay on the front page long.

I spent a lot of time working out the design of the beast from the Tithe. When I think about the “monsters” of the Eyrewood I have some very specific ideas for how they should look. For me the most important thing is that they look like they could be real animals. I like the idea of twisting and combining creatures rather than creating something from scratch. I put together this collection of images from my sketchbook.

The series wraps up on Friday - here's the exquisite foyer you can wait in until it does. There were a ton of different forest beasts that auditioned for the role before this one, and I think my recently returned associate is going to break them down for you.

I pitched them a set of pages that was largely about the drunken singing of sea shanties, mostly so I could write one, and there really wasn't a discussion - these things feature prominently in the game, apparently, so they were down. Then I tapped Katie Rice (of her own fame, but also of Strip Search fame) to handle art duties, and we were off to the races. I hope you enjoy it.