Twelve Percent Dread by Emily McGovern: I generally love McGovern's comics but I couldn't get into this one. I did appreciate her...

 Much of my Día de Muertos handiwork was ruined last year by water and mold, so I made something new. This was very loosely inspired by a pr...

 Have you watched Over the Garden Wall ? It's a wonderful series of cartoons telling the story of Wirt and Greg as they try to make thei...

  Turns out, black felt is hard to photograph properly   This little bat was inspired by something I saw on Pinterest. The image linked to a...

  It's no secret that the horrors in ghost stories almost always serve as signifiers for the horrors in society. Beloved 's ghost is...

It was the summer of the hobbit. I convinced my youngest to read The Hobbit this summer (he loved it, except for a couple of "boring&q...

A lot of the books I read are about the power of storytelling -- to entertain, to understand, to heal -- but stories can also lead us astray...