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See You In Hell Issue #1 Is Out

See You In Hell Issue #1 Is Out

I’ve been busy. Busy making comics. I started posting See You In Hell last year on my Patreon, and it’s been going great. I just released the collected first issue this week as a digital comic, and I’m going to finish the second issue in the next couple of weeks here....

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Vlogging on Patreon

Vlogging on Patreon

In the early months of the pandemic, I started to notice a shift toward video. Vlogs, actually. Video blogs. Some of it was from people being trapped inside. Sharing their experience on YouTube was a way to feel less lonely. For artists, it became another opportunity...

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Pay to Search?

Pay to Search?

I haven’t used Google for searching the web in years. That surprises people that know that I work for a digital marketing agency. I’m not saying Google isn’t important. Just that I don’t use them for their primary function: search. Why? Because it sucks. It hasn’t...

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Support Your Local DJ

Support Your Local DJ

I started posting my new comic to Instagram this week. Browsing my feed, it consisted of memes. I couldn’t find my friends or other accounts I follow. It was nothing but meme accounts. And I wasn’t sure why I was being shown most of this until I noticed that friends...

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Won’t You Be My Patr(e)on?

Won’t You Be My Patr(e)on?

I launched my Patreon last month. The British may call the effort “willy nilly.” I prefer to think of it as the dam finally bursting. I kept putting this off. The time had come, it was Halloween, and I thought, screw it let’s do this. It’s not...

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Join Me on Patreon

Join Me on Patreon

I decided spur of the moment to launch my Patreon tonight. Maybe it was the fact that Halloween is here, and the new graphic novel that I'll be sharing on Patreon takes place in Hell. I've heard some Halloween tales have taken place near that locale! Regardless, I...

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A Long Road To Walk

A Long Road To Walk

I am pleased to announce that the long wait for my next graphic novel is over. The Walk was released today. It was an ordeal to get to this date. I’m happy it’s here. I started communicating with Harry Markos at the end of 2005. I had finished my first graphic novel...

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The Joy of a Hobby

The Joy of a Hobby

I keep finding that the pandemic unearthed unintentional ideas inside of me. Like rediscovering video games as I became bored with being inside my home. I started posting video on social media from Procreate of my artwork being created in a time lapse. My followers...

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Tricking an Older Dog

Tricking an Older Dog

I hate how I draw. This isn’t unusual with most cartoonists. If I’m doing an illustration, I don’t mind at all. I fall into my style and I don’t question anything. But once I start doing something sequential, I fall into a hole of self-doubt. I’ve been working in...

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Life is what happens while you’re making other plans

Life is what happens while you’re making other plans

Jesus wept. My god. Did you believe me when I said “yep! The Ol’ Max Riffner Content Machine is firing back up! New comics! More blogging!” Were you thinking “you have a newborn, you dipshit.” Because, yeah, I have a newborn child and this shit is a lot of work. And...

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Announcing My Latest Comic and Patreon

Announcing My Latest Comic and Patreon

I hinted at this on my last post, but I’ve been working hard on getting a new comic ready to share. I haven’t posted any work online since they still called them “webcomics.” Either way, I’ve been tooling with this comic for the better part of ten years and I’ve...

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