Author Archives: Gareth Branwyn

I Did a Reddit Ask Me Anything. Here’s the Resulting Discussion

Question: In the book The End of Absence, author Michael Harris points out that we are the last generation alive that remembers before the InterWebNet was born. I’m no Luddite, I may be online too much since my health forced me to quit my very physical work. I find it harder and harder not toContinue reading “I Did a Reddit Ask Me Anything. Here’s the Resulting Discussion”

Announcing the “Hard Launch” of Borg Like Me

We consider the July release of Borg Like Me to be a soft launch, designed to fulfill all of Kickstarter backer rewards and to work out all of the bugs for fulfillment. Now that all of that is sorted out and fall is upon us, it’s time to launch this baby with as much powderContinue reading “Announcing the “Hard Launch” of Borg Like Me”

WINK Review: Bomb Run

My latest review is for a lovely collection of 1950s-era war comics by Mad magazine’s Harvey Kurtzman, John Severin, and Will Elder: Originally appearing in Two-Fisted Tales and Frontline Combat in the early 50s, the comics in this collection were rather radical for their time. Even though they were war stories, created to appeal toContinue reading “WINK Review: Bomb Run”

Borg Like Me Spawns Fairy Post Office in the Berkeley Hills

It’s amazing how magic can sometimes beget magic. I have a piece in Borg Like Me about Lea Redmond’s “World’s Smallest Postal Service” and a very enchanting experience I had once when I found a little “house” set up inside of a rotted out knot hole in a tree. For the piece, I decided toContinue reading “Borg Like Me Spawns Fairy Post Office in the Berkeley Hills”

Borg Like Me Artist Featured on Boing Boing

David Pescovitz has a great piece on Boing Boing today about the iconic 90s Schwa art, including some of the more memorable images and an interview with its creator, William Barker: In the early 1990s, adman/fine artist William Barker’s Schwa became the iconic artwork of the cyberculture underground. Barker’s paranoiac stick figures, faux-corporate undertones, andContinue reading “Borg Like Me Artist Featured on Boing Boing”

WINK Review: The Sacrificial Universe

For this week’s WINK review, I take a trip into David Chaim Smith’s The Sacrificial Universe: The Sacrificial Universe contains 45 stunning drawings of mesmerizing complexity and strangeness. Most of them are full-size, with a number as dramatic fold-out diptychs, triptychs, and even a quadriptych. The production is high-quality, art-book level. The text in SacrificialContinue reading “WINK Review: The Sacrificial Universe”

Sparks of Fire Press Bookplate Being Letterpress Printed

Just got this video of my new Sparks of Fire Press bookplate being printed by the wonderful Fran and Jen of Zeichen Press. Can’t wait to see the plates in person! These plates, inscribed by me, were offered as a premium for the Kickstarter campaign for my book, Borg Like Me. You can still getContinue reading “Sparks of Fire Press Bookplate Being Letterpress Printed”

Cool Tools Podcast: “They Came from My House!”

Last week, I was on the Cool Tools podcast, with Mark Frauenfelder and Kevin Kelly, talking about the awesome, well-used/well-loved tools that came with my house, and that I still use every day. In the course of the conversation we sort of stumbled onto a new tradition we’d like to establish in home ownership (giftingContinue reading “Cool Tools Podcast: “They Came from My House!””

Read the Title Essay to Borg Like Me

Boing Boing posted the title essay to my new book, Borg Like Me. The piece, which original appeared in ArtByte, was written in 2001. The introduction, new for the book, begins: Since the age of thirteen, I’ve had a disease I still can’t spell (and I’m determined to keep it that way). Google tells meContinue reading “Read the Title Essay to Borg Like Me”