2025 Objectives: I really only had one firm objective for 2025, and that was to release issues #8 and #9 of Tales from the Crate and Volume #3 of Sketchbook Picture Sleeves. I got that done early in the year! This opened up the rest of the year to... well... fuck around with things. Still a bit covid lagged, but also looking forward to 2026 as the 15th anniversary year of publishing, I needed that freedom. Time to assess how Nix has changed over the years, and maybe to reass

While in previous years I kept track of the records that I listened to on a daily basis, this year I didn't feel like keeping track.... Though when people started talking about their "Spossify wraps" and the new "listening Age" thing that was tied into it, I felt like maybe I should do something to talk about the expression of my musical tastes in 2025. It occurred to me that while I didn't do a log of everything-what-I-listened-to, I did by track all the records that I bou

As many of you know, I have an ongoing project called "Sketchbook Picture Sleeves." The basic idea is that I take 7" records and draw my own picture sleeve for them. A nearly full gallery of these can be found here . From time to time people ask me if I will to branch out into 12" records. The answer is that I do, but not as often. I guess maybe because they are definitely not "sketchbook" projects, being too big to fit in a sketchbook. Maybe because its harder to find good

Camper Van Beethoven at the 40 Watt Club 9/17/2025 It's a little weird to me that after spending 54 years without going to the state of...

Yesterday, I was at the Mug and Brush Barbershop out in Gahanna to get my every-six-month haircut. As many of you long time Nix fans...

Phew! It's been a busy first half of 2025! (Well A little more than a half, I'm including everything that has happened up to and...

I'm getting ready for the Columbus Book Festival this weekend and trying something a little new. The first 51 people buying something...

Woof! Looks like Dumb Donald’s Tariffs have started to hit mom and pop printing companies. That means they’ve hit Nix Comics as I get...

So... My plan was to run a pre-order sale through April, but I'm reading the room and will likely wrap up my pitch soon. Like at the end...

Yesterday I started the Spring 2025 Nix Comics Pre-Order Sale . (Go ahead. Click the link. It won't hurt much.) It was a decent first day...

I feel an urgency these days. An urgency to get my various artistic endeavors completed, out the door, and into your hands. I won't drag...

WHAT’S HAPPENING WITH NIX COMICS? Ready for an interruption of the incessant doom scroll? Mine if not yours .Anxiety over the world is...

Holy Snot! It's a Blog! Last weekend was my first ever trip to Atlanta. Kate has family down there and we both wanted to go see the...

The "Holy Snot!" title was originally used for the editorial page of Nix Comics Quarterly. Not sure what the future of that title is, but...

Objectives: Was 2024 a good year? I think so. It ’s been a year of small accomplishments and re-found freedom. Objective One: Monthly...