by Tom Batiuk | Mar 6, 2025 | Komix Thoughts
My Holy Grail search continued to run around, through, and under the other stories you’ll find in this volume. Post–Lisa’s story, however, the work had changed. First, Lisa had raised the bar quite a bit, and there was now a lot more thumping of stories to make sure...
by Tom Batiuk | Feb 19, 2025 | Komix Thoughts
I related the story of how I acquired that comic book in the first volume of this collection so I won’t repeat it here, but there was more to that story: The following day after the acquisition of my first comic book and the initial forty or fifty readings, I found...
by Tom Batiuk | Feb 4, 2025 | Komix Thoughts
In short, I began an exploration of the matter in Funky to try to link back to the comics history that had preceded me. My first shot at things was a weeklong setup where Pete, a comic strip writer for my fabulous comic book company Atomik Komix, imagined during a...
by Tom Batiuk | Jan 30, 2025 | Komix Thoughts
So, back to that golden idea, which was a pretty simple one, really. It was a feeling that I should somehow have my characters explore the history of my medium. That was it. But it seemed to refer to things that had apparently been on my mind since I’d done my...
by Tom Batiuk | Jan 13, 2025 | Komix Thoughts
It was another one of those road to Damascus–double down–who’s your daddy moments. I was sitting on a couch in my room in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, doing some writing when this ephemeral thought passed through my brain like some sort of cosmic ray. It was...
