A place for all things geek... ONCE UPON A GEEK is a blog that focuses on a variety of geeky topics, including: comic books, Doctor Who, Star Wars (classic and legacy characters), role-playing, 80’s TV shows, and science fiction in general. However, any topic is really fair game. Don't forget to share your thoughts by adding comments!
By day, The Irredeemable Shag plays the part of a wealthy industrialist, playboy, and philanthropist. By night, he is a frightening creature that strikes terror into the hearts of criminals!
... or ...
maybe The Irredeemable Shag managed a comic book store for four years, and a movie theater megaplex for three years. Nowadays he's just a really vocal geek on THE UNIQUE GEEK, a semi-regular on the VIEWS FROM THE LONGBOX podcast, and runs the ONCE UPON A GEEK and FIRESTORM FAN blogs.
You decide...Here is a Dungeons & Dragons advertisement that ran in comic books in mid-1981. The lack of color, amateur artwork, inconsistent lettering, and ridiculous scripting is appalling. This ad is simply terrible. With that said.. I LOVE IT! This pathetic little ad inspired me to try roleplaying and seek out further comic adventures of these [...]
Here is an original drawing of Alan Scott, the Golden Age Green Lantern, by his creator Martin Nodell. Marty created the Green Lantern in 1940 for All-American Comics #16. I was fortunate enough to meet Marty in 1994 at Cosmic Cat Comics & Games when he came to do a signing. I was managing the [...]
Bill Watterson gave an interview this week to Plain Dealer reporter John Campanelli. This was Watterson’s first interview since 1989. Below is an excerpt: JC: Because your work touched so many people, fans feel a connection to you, like they know you. They want more of your work, more Calvin, another strip, anything. It really [...]
Believe it or not, the legendary Walt Simonson drew some Doctor Who illustrations back in 1980. These were published in Marvel Premiere issues #57 and #60. The feature stories in these issues were colorized reprints of the British Doctor Who Weekly comic strips (eventually retitled Doctor Who Magazine). Simonson’s drawings were used for covers and [...]
Dear Mr. Watterson is a film project spearheaded by Joel Allen Schroeder. According to their website, “Dear Mr. Watterson is a film that will look to the readers and fans of Calvin & Hobbes to tell the story of the strip and its creator. As we follow the life and career of Bill Watterson through [...]
Below you’ll find a drawing of Batman I did back in 1988 that I recently unearthed. I drew it free hand, but based it upon a Brian Bolland panel in Batman: The Killing Joke (see further below for that original panel). My drawing measures 13 inches by 17 inches, whereas the original panel measures a [...]
There is a new contest on the Image Comics forum hosted by Frank Cho and Doug Murray. This purpose of this contest is to find an artist for the upcoming book 50-GIRLS-50. There are about 150 contestants at this point, with Cho and Murray selecting their favorites at the Baltimore Comic Con this weekend. To [...]
Coverage of Dragon*Con 2009 continues here! To read about Friday, click here. If you’d like to see over 600 pictures I took at the event, you can view them on Flickr and THE UNIQUE GEEK photo gallery. Saturday After the WAR OF THE SNORE the night before, Choco Taco and I decided to grab some [...]
Assuming all is well with air travel, I should be in Atlanta this morning!!! Me and 30,000 of my closest friends all weekend long! Dragon*Con is the largest multi-media, popular culture convention focusing on science fiction and fantasy, gaming, comics, literature, art, music, and film in the US. It’s the 6th largest convention in the [...]
There is a book coming out in October that I’m anxious for … Looking for Calvin and Hobbes: The Unconventional Story of Bill Watterson and His Revolutionary Comic Strip by Nevin Martell. If you’ve been reading ONCE UPON A GEEK for a while, then you probably know I’m a big fan of Calvin & Hobbes. [...]
