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Hey guys, it's Scott. It is Friday, June 14th. I can't believe June is flying by, and I'm so sorry I've been out of pocket with these. I'm gonna make it a regular thing again starting next week, but I have good reasons. The kids all finished school and it's that strange period between school and work for the 17-year-old, camp for the 12-year-old, and camp for the five-year-old. So everybody's home...

Hey guys, it's Scott. It is Wednesday, May 15th. Forgive the sound of the rain in the background. It is raining hard here. You can probably hear it drumming on the glass. I wanted to do a post about my trip to Metropolis because so many of you have asked about it. Obviously, there's a lot I can't say. Most of what I learned and saw and experienced I can't talk about. But I wanted to at least tell...

Hey guys, it's Scott. It is Friday, May 3rd, and I can't believe it. It is Free Comic Book Day tomorrow and Star Wars Day and it is Quinn's birthday. He is turning five, which I cannot believe. I still remember posting that we were pregnant with him . So he was born on May the Fourth in a year where that not only was Star Wars Day, but it was Free Comic Book Day. And so I always joke that he'll ei...

Hey guys, it's Scott. It is Monday, April 15th, and it is full spring here in New York. You can probably hear the birds and such behind me. I'm outside trying to get some fresh air after a long, gray winter. So a quick bit of housekeeping. We're going to do a class in a couple weeks. I'm still deciding on the subject, but I'm thinking about doing something that's like, twist endings. I was thinkin...

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Hey guys, it's Scott. It is Friday March 22nd already, I can hardly believe it. And I want to apologize, I was going to do this really big post about the 38th anniversary of the release of The Dark Knight Returns , a book that was so seminal in my own creative trajectory, but Quinn got sick at the beginning of the week and has been home all week. He's better today but he did not make it to school....

Hey guys, it's Scott. And I just wanted to make a very quick reminder that tomorrow night, Wednesday, March 13th, at 9.30pm EST , we're going to be doing our live comic writing class, Comic Writing 101, now 102, and our subject is going to be action scenes . I'm really excited about it. Come join the fun. You can still sign up. It's only seven bucks a month. And you get access to all of our classe...

Hey guys, it's Scott. It is Friday, March 8th. And what a week! I finished the season finale episode of Wytches season one, episode 108, and handed it in. So season one is a wrap in terms of writing. I wrote the pilot (101) and 108, and the other episodes came out phenomenally well. We have an incredible team. I have a great co-showrunner, Marion Dayre , fantastic writers like Jeff Howard and Harr...

Hey guys, it's Scott. It is Friday, March 1st (when I recorded this). Where did February go? Who the hell knows. But I'm sorry I didn't do a post last week. My schedule got a little bit blown up because full disclosure, the big Christmas present this year for our two older boys, Jack and Emmett, 17 and 12 years old, was tickets to a Drake and J. Cole concert in the city. They're both big fans and...

Hey guys, how are you doing? It's Scott. It is Friday, February 16th. I'm sorry I missed Tuesday. It's been a week of family chaos here. Our babysitter has the flu, so there's a lot of kids schedule juggling. And then on top of it, my sister is actually delivering her second child as we speak! So I'm going to be an uncle again to another beautiful niece. I am very excited, but it's been a lot of f...

Hey guys, it's Scott. It is Friday, February 9th. I hope you're having a good one. And thank you for all the support for that post I made last time. I didn't realize it would get such a reaction, but I also got a lot of concerned people asking me if somebody had been attacked online or if somebody was going through something. And I just wanted to clarify that really, no, it was going down there an...

Hey guys, it's Scott. It is Wednesday, February 7th. I meant to do this yesterday, but I was just too beaten up from the traveling. I get too old now for recovering from a con quickly. But I just wanted to say thank you to everybody that came out at MegaCon. It was a blast. I forget how huge and Orlando-sized that convention actually is. It's amazing. Incredible cosplay, incredible fans, organizer...

Hey guys, it's Scott. And it is Tuesday, January 30th. And I wanted to do a very quick post today just as a two-question Tuesday, and also mostly as a housekeeping post, because we have a couple of really exciting things coming up. First and foremost, Thursday night, just in two days, on February 1st at 9:30pm EST, we are doing our first class on horror. It'll be kind of an intro to horror in comi...

Hey guys, it's Scott. It is Tuesday, January 23rd, and I am so sorry that I've been so off-radar, but it snowed like an arctic planet here, like Hoth, and everything iced over, and we had a four-year-old who actually had the flu and was home from school, and then we had a 16 year-old who got sick, and Jeanie got sick, and it was a whole mess. But everybody's better now, and although my back still...

Hey guys, it's Scott. It is Thursday, January 4th, although you will hear this on Friday, January 5th, because it's late and I am driving back from a fantastic dinner with brother James Tynion IV. His birthday was last week or so, and my birthday is in a week and a half. And so we have kind of a tradition now and then of trying to get together and have dinner, the two of us, and catch up. It was f...

Hey guys, it's Scott. It is Friday, December 15th. My God, it is 10 days away from Christmas and I can't believe it. Our house is all a frenzy. We have our tree, we're all set, we're waiting on packages. Our 16-year-old is still in finals hell. Our 12-year-old is glued to social media to see if the Yankees get this amazing Japanese pitcher, Yamamoto. And our 4-year-old is obsessed with the Christm...

Hey guys, it's Scott. It is Wednesday, December 6th. Jeez, we're getting so close to Christmas and the end of the year, I can't even believe it! I am going down to sign your books, if you were a Black Jackett member, in just like, 10 days. So please, please send them (and send them express) to the address listed here by the best assistant, Ty. Ship books to:  Comic Sketch Art c/o Best Jackett5438...

Hey guys, it's Scott. And it is Friday, December 1st. My God, we're in December, I can't believe it. I'm so sorry, I feel like I missed a big chunk of November with this, or at least a couple weeks. But I will explain, and I'm really excited to get back into it. We have tons of stuff coming up. Just for housekeeping, Black Jacket members—please, please send your books ASAP using the info that Ty i...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit bestjackettpress.substack.com Hey guys, it's Scott. It is Friday, November 10th, and I'm all alone. It's just me. Tyler, great assistant, is away in the UK for Thought Bubble and for a much-needed vacation. If you're anywhere near Harrogate this weekend in England, go by, check out Thought Bubble. It is genuinely one of my very favorite...

Hey guys, it's Scott. It is Tuesday, November 7th and I am back from Ireland. Thank you all for the kind words about the trip and the well wishes. It was very, very quick. I think I said so online, but just in case, the reason we keep going over here is my wife Jeanie and I bought an old farmhouse here about a year ago on a whim, it's definitely one of our crazier decisions. But we've always loved...

Hey guys, it's Scott. It is Thursday, October 26th, and witches are in the air in all kinds of ways because Halloween is right around the corner. I can't wait. Quinn has four different costumes at this point. He could be Sully from Monsters, Inc. , Buzz Lightyear from Toy Story , Batman, of course, because, you know, every kid should be. And a ghost, also, which is just a sheet which he is contemp...

Hey guys, it's Scott. It is Friday, October 20th, and my voice is finally coming back. All my human parts are alive again. And I'm just sort of so excited by everything that happened in New York Comic Con. I'm going to talk about it in a minute. Not the con itself, but what I think it speaks to at this moment in comics. My sister's birthday is tomorrow on the 21st, along with one of my great frien...

Hey guys, it's Scott. It is Tuesday, October 17th. This is the voice you get two days after New York Comic Con. Yesterday it was way worse. I’m always like, “do I sound like Batman kids?” And they were like, “no, you sound like an old man who fell down in the street.” But all my moving parts are starting to move again today, I feel a little bit more human. But it was a fantastic time. Before I get...

Hey, guys, it's Scott. It is Tuesday, October 10th. Forgive the plunking sounds. I'm standing under a big tree to escape some children in the house and it is full of acorns falling from a great height. So if you hear me get clocked by an acorn, just bonus content, I guess, right? First things first, make sure to buy and read By a Thread #1 on Comixology! This is the book I created with my son Jack...

Hey guys, it's Scott. It is Friday, September 29th. We’re getting closer and closer to New York Comic Con, just two weeks away. So, for Black Jackett members, we have our dinner all set up. I'm really excited. A lot of people are coming, so I'll try and have some special guests and set up some surprises. But also, if you're a paid Best Jackett member, come by any solo signing I'm doing at New York...