Followup to the recent five-part “Thursday, Agua Venenosa.”  Because I had more story in me, and Adam  had more art. [...]

Adam cut loose on our latest story/art collaboration, drawing more than I could use. So here’s the second bonus all-art [...]

In which the plot hits the fan.  Sides are chosen, identities are revealed, and violence finally drowns out the innuendo.  [...]

In which we are given a tour of the high-tech lab, meet more robots, and things begin to go wrong.  [...]

Juarez, Mexico, 2034: A flourishing independent narcostate, where evil scientists set up corporations and industrial spies steal their dark secrets.  [...]

Think of this as the trailer for the five-part story that will debut here in two days.  Adam went nuts [...]

Adam followed up that killer illustration for my melodramatic quasi-vampire story with a more comical perspective.  Behold:  The sitcom variant.  [...]

“Why would you even want to make a vampire?” I ask her. “They’re not cuddly, mopey kittens, you know.” Madalina [...]

Every year, my company does a holiday card.  This year, the gimmick was a staff picture that was clickable–you click [...]

The “Ted talks” folks post a series of educational videos.  This one’s a terrific summation of Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey, [...]

‘Twas the days after Christmas and all through the site … everything was on auto-pilot, which only seemed right … [...]

Adam’s winter sketch-a-palooza continues with two (two!) fabulous entries, but only one ass joke.

“For a full year of tinkering in the garage, all Lora’s mom had asked was, “Don’t touch the time machine.” [...]

“Julia loved her husband, but she knew he wasn’t a talented writer.  She praised where she could, and enjoyed when [...]

“Hanael plummeted into the darkness, the absence of the Divine Presence. As the notion of feathers burned from the inspiration [...]

The back of the sketchbook says to watch for patterns in my thinking.  I think about eating, sleeping and TV. [...]

Bond 23 grapples with the challenge of doing a more personal film about a character who has no actual personality. [...]

Your humble bloggers cast their votes today in Iowa and California, two nice states to have done your voting in. [...]

I reviewed five movies in from Sept. 28 through Halloween, and only the highly praised “The Master” earned my ire.  [...]

Continued from Part One, with another fine sketch from Adam. It’s interesting to get his very immediate take on something [...]

Two games Adam and I hope to play regularly: In one, I write something, then he illustrates.  That’s not this.  [...]

So, 355 days later … Didja miss us?  Hello?  A baby (Adam’s), a wedding (mine), and metric tons of dayjob [...]

Since Adam is occupied this weekend—Jeni pulled off nature’s greatest trick, and they’re welcoming an amazing treat—I’ve dug suitable Halloween [...]

Inauguration of an obsession: A first look at British adventure character Modesty Blaise, an undersung treasure of the thriller genre, [...]

Questions, answers and art. Brian decided it’d be more fun to post Adam’s art with forced commentary from the artist. [...]

And finally, here’s part two of Adam’s adventures at I-Con, sketching for charity. And for people. People who fund charity. [...]

With Halloween nigh, here’s a supernatural image resulting from an effort to use a charity to get sketches from Adam. [...]

My girlfriend recently observed that nearly all my stories take place in bars. Maybe I have a fictional drinking problem. [...]

More thoughts about songs and writing. A peculiar mistake that nearly derails my point, but I’m saved by a Monkee. [...]

Ninja Falcon: Five randomly selected words combined with sleep deprivation to create Adam’s experiment in 24-hour(ish) comics. A pulse-pounding debut! [...]

Autumn is here. For Brian, that means the warm, sunny season finally begins in the gloomy Bay Area. In Iowa, [...]

On Saturday, I brought paper, pencils, ink, brushes, a light table, a portable dvd player and a bowl for donations. [...]

I’m remiss in my movie reviewing (new job’s kicking my ass), but two recent films have interested me as challenges [...]

A comic convention …. a fast (and friendly!) professional artist doing inexpensive sketches … and donating the money to charity.  [...]

Brian:  Here’s a monologue I did while working out larger ideas. It came out indebted to a Neil Gaiman comic, [...]

Adam: This was for my cousin Jill. Because she’d just learned to scuba, she requested “Aquagirl.” I’d drawn Aquagirl for [...]

Adam: I was looking at the nose art on WW2 airplanes and starting to imagine the art coming to life [...]

I sat in an uncomfortable seat on a packed AC Transit bus in downtown San Francisco, the collective aromas of [...]

Working on a superhero movie. What could be more fun for the special-effects guys, right? Right? (Look inside for more [...]

“Thresholds” is a five-part writing exercise in which I took a word and crafted five vignettes, roughly 500 words each. [...]

The world has seen the new costume for Henry Cavill’s turn as Superman.  Adam offers his take on the duds.  [...]

Adam and Brian take on the Summer 2011 superhero movies.  Artist vs. Writer!  Good-hearted joe vs. wise-ass cynic!  Spoiler alert:  [...]

Back in 2008, Adam was doing some sketches for charity.  I got this sweet Hellboy/Madame Xanadu piece out of it. [...]

Hey there.  This is the introductory post to Literary Sketches.  I’m Brian.  Adam is the one who draws awesome stuff.  [...]