MKE Creatives: May 2016: Gun Cotton Tintypes!
(click ’em to big ’em) The May MKE Creatives was particularly interesting to me, as it featured a talk with two…
MKE Comicbook: April 2016: The spiritual/afterlife in comicbooks
I was pretty excited for April’s MKE Comicbook, as we were going to be discussing a topic we haven’t covered before –…
MKE Creatives: April 2016: Changing Life With Mark Bradford
(click the pics, to big the pics) April’s MKE Creatives at Anodyne Coffee was a pretty interesting one. We had in attendance:…
MKE Comicbook March 2016: Fave Women Characters
This month was special in a few ways for the MKE Comicbook meetup – we met at a different location, had some new…
MKE Creatives March 2016: Singing out loud with Kaleigh
The March 9 MKE Creatives meetup featured a talk from Kaleigh Rae Gamache, and I’m totally late in posting about that meetup….
What IS MKE Creatives anyway?
MKE Creatives is a monthly meetup for anyone who works in a creative profession. It is a way to “cross-pollinate” all the…
MKE Comicbook: Feb 2016: Spiral King Comics and Time Travel Stories
This month’s MKE Comicbook at Anodyne Coffee had a great triple-feature – a presentation from local creator, Guy Thomas of Sprial King…
MKE Creatives: Feb 2016: Love-In at Draft & Vessel
February’s meet-up was a new sort of one for us at MKE Creatives. Normally, we meet at Anodyne Coffee in Walker’s Point…
MKE Comicbook: Jan 2016: R-Rated Clothing
In January’s MKE Comicbook, we did something we haven’t done in quite awhile – welcomed a guest presenter to the discussion! On…
MKE Creatives: Jan 2016: Getting Creative with Rosie Hartmann
MKE Creatives started 2016 at Anodyne Coffee with Rosie Hartmann lighting a fire beneath us. 🙂 The focus of her presentation dealt…
MKE Comicbook: Dec 2015: “Best of, Worst of”
The last MKE Comicbook of 2015 was a swell one – not as well attended as some evenings, but still made for…
MKE Creatives: Dec 2015: Steve Kodis on MKE’s flag
The final MKE Creatives meetup of 2015 happened at Anodyne Coffee in a decidedly MKE-centric way, with a vexillologic presentation from Steve…
WI in NYC: Matt Chic
I’ve known Matt Chic for a quite awhile. Before moving to New York City/Brooklyn, he worked at my local comicbook store for…
“it’s never a straight line.”
Chris J. Larson might only be 35, but this candidate for the seat of Milwaukee County Executive has a lot of experience…
2016 MKE Comicbook Schedule
Going into our third year of regular meetings, dang, this is FUN! 🙂 We just recently had a meeting to determine the…
2016 MKE Creatives Meetup Schedule
I’m all ready for another great year of MKE Creatives. Unless stated otherwise, the meetup is at Anodyne Coffee, on Bruce St.,…
MKE Comicbook: Nov 2015: STAR WARS!
(click to biggen the pics) With the impending arrival of the new Star Wars movie next month, MKE Comicbook felt an…
That time in Beloit, WI when I saw the KKK
(click the neg to big the pic) In 1997, February of that year, I started a new job at Helix Photoart in…
WI in NYC: Sonia and Balthazar
(click to biggen) (this is the second in a three-part series “WI in NYC”. Here’s the first.) People move for many different…
Pregnancy Portrait: Kate
(click to biggen) A friend of mine recently asked me to do a portrait for her – a pregnancy portrait. And, after…
MKE Creatives: Nov 2015: Lauren Fox on novel-writing
November’s MKE Creatives at Anodyne Coffee drew once of the largest crowds we’ve had yet. This group just keeps on growing and…