Get Lost on the Yellow Brick Road

Why do you always get lost during long journeys? And what if that happened to literary characters? This episode of my webcomic Whales Speaking Yiddish imagines what that might look like: https://tapas.io/episode/1143190

Adam Before Eve

What did Adam look like in his bachelor days? https://tapas.io/episode/1143169

What Dr. Lecter does in his spare time?

You wouldn't think about it at first, but Hannibal Lecter can be a very humorous character. Whether you read Thomas Harris' books about Lecter or see one of the movies based on them, there's a streak of dark comedy that runs through them. The comic strip below parodies and riffs on that dark comedy: https://tapas.io/episode/1143161

Geneva Story 3: Frankenstein

2018 marks the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein, started during a story contest between Shelley and several other writers staying by Lake Geneva.  To celebrate this book, I'm doing a series of posts about Frankenstein and two other stories that came from this contest. Here's where you can read the previous post. It's …

Monsters are Under the Bed… and They Like Games

Why are kids always scared of the monsters under their bed? What would it look like if they treated the monsters like they were just bigger kids? This webcomic episode imagines what that might look like: https://tapas.io/episode/1143156    

Geneva Story 2: “The Vampyre”

2018 marks the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein, started during a story contest between Shelley and several other writers staying at Lake Geneva.  To celebrate this book, I'm doing a series of posts about Frankenstein and two other stories that came from this contest. Here's where you can read the previous post. Before …

Infinite Monkeys, Infinite Time

There's a mathematical concept that argues that given an infinite amount of time, an infinite number of monkeys working on typewriters would eventually write all of Shakespeare's stories.   I decided to play on that idea for an episode on my webcomic series: https://tapas.io/episode/1143139

Geneva Story 1: “A Fragment of a Novel”

2018 marks the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein, started during a story contest between Shelley and several other writers staying by Lake Geneva.  To celebrate this book, I'm doing a series of posts on Frankenstein and two other stories that came from this contest. "A Fragment of a Novel" is interesting because although …

5 Horror Movies with Spiritual Themes

Christianity claims that not only is there such a thing as right and wrong, but also bad things can happen when we commit wrong actions. It also claims that supernatural beings - good and evil ones - exist and can interact with us. So, a scary movie can sometimes be a way to talk about …