August 2008

Political Science

Maybe I’m just reading the wrong blogs, but I can’t help but get a sinking feeling from this re-cap of Republican VP pick Sarah Palin’s very own, ongoing, troopergate scandal:
Eventually, Palin got fed up and fired Monegan from his job. This is an important point. Wooten never got fired. To the best of my knowledge, [...]

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Re-Reading Comics

(Another Onomatoepeia essay, from July last year.)
“It’s no longer news that comics have grown up. A form that was once solely the province of children’s entertainment now fills bookstores with mature, brilliant works by artists like Chris Ware, the Hernandez brothers, Dan Clowes and Charles Burns, discussed in the sort of tone that was once [...]

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I Read the News Today, Oh Boy

(I write for Comix Experience’s Onomatoepeia newsletter each month; I preview the new books in the back, and in the front, I do this short piece about… well, whatever comes to mind when I have a deadline, really. It’s one of the few things that I write that doesn’t show up online… so, of course, I thought [...]

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Hello, Hello, And Welcome To Our Show Tonight

In which Graeme welcomes you all to this new blog venture, and explains what little he knows about what he plans to do here. He does so, thankfully, not in this awkward third person style of writing.

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About Things

About me.

In case you haven’t guessed by the title of the website, my name is Graeme McMillan. You may have seen me elsewhere on these internets, in places like io9 (where I write and, on weekends, wear the editor’s hat), Savage Critics or even old haunts like Newsarama or even Fanboy Rampage. In case you can’t tell, I like words.

About this here blog.

It’s “powered by Wordpress” and created and maintained by my lovely wife Kate. She’s also the one who told me that I should have my own, personal blog again, so, really? Blame her.

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