Steampunk

Before Comicon: Interview with Gigi Edgley

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This coming week, Phoenix will be crawling with geeks of every type imaginable as their annual Comicon takes place. I received the chance to interview Gigi Edgley, acclaimed sci-fi actress and generally awesome person, who will be featuring her latest projects at said convention. Though her schedule was full, she had enough time to sneak through question and…

Wild Wild West Convention 2013: Day One

  A temperamental grey sky ushered in the first day of the second Wild Wild West Steampunk Convention, and like many others, my arrival was delayed due to the stormy conditions. As fat drops of rain pounded against the car’s windshield, I wondered how the event organizers planned to combat the inclement weather in Old Tucson’s largely…

The World of Steam – An Interview With Matt King

  Matt Yang King (Numb3rs, 24, David E. Kelley’s Monday Mornings, and winner of theCAPE/Hollywood Foreign Press Young Screenwriters Award), is the producer, writer and director of the new steampunk web series The World of Steam. It recently broke records as the highest funded pilot for a web series during its Kickstarter campaign. I had…

How to Make an Awesome [Steampunk] Costume on a Budget

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I only recently started attending comic conventions, of course with the help of my wonderful editor/publisher Hong Le and GNN!  The first one I went to was last May, the Phoenix Comicon, and I went without dressing up.  Before I even entered the Phoenix Convention Center, while I was simply trying to get into the…

The Aylesford Skull: Early Character Notes

A Note from the Author: The following is a random collection of working notes taken from scores of pages of such notes that I wrote out when I was thinking through The Aylesford Skull.  Please be aware that they contain potential spoilers as well as a number of ideas, characters, and potential scenes that didn’t…