Quite a while back, I tried my hand at writing and illustrating comics. At the time, my efforts yielded a pair of very short works, “McWidgie and Friends” and “To Do.” Recently, however, I found myself between projects and was reading Michael Eury’s wonderful study of camp-age superheroes, Hero-A-Go-Go, when the (radioactive?) comics bug bit me again.

This time around, I’ve written a twelve-page story called “Half Halbert.” The story behind the story is that I was involved in an email discussion with my colleague Hal Halbert when another colleague typed “Half” instead of “Hal” in her salutation. The rest, as they say, is history…