Wayne Santos | Toronto-based writer and game journalist
Nothing To Report
Woke up, shuffled around, bought some groceries and pet food, played some games, tinkered with Lost In Loveless and wrote a few e-mails that needed sending out. Aside from that, the only other thing of note is that a friend of mine Singapore with Amazingly Prominent Cheekbones has now been featured in [...]
A Talented Brunch
Yes, I know that’s a horrible, horrible pun, but it’s also an apt description of this afternoon.
The Wife went off to meet with the group of artists in Toronto I’ve mentioned before, the Sketch Motel, and so we wandered slightly further past our usual haunts to another stretch of Annex populated by neat [...]
Supply Run
Yup, you guessed it. Down to the art stores of Queen Street West and then back up to Bloor and then home. Did some writing, watched Titan A.E. (and remembered thinking “If I were 10 years old and watching this, this would probably be the greatest film of my life”) and generally [...]
The Quiet Friday
In which a bit of reading, a bit of writing and a bit of game playing was done. And the Wife got back to work on a little bit of Nowhere, which is cool since it’s been dormant for a while. It would be cool to have some time to actually [...]
Done
The first pass at the anthology story is done, and–and I should have seen this coming a mile away, but somehow didn’t–I’m over the recommended 15 page maximum that was initially laid out by the guidelines. Fortunately, Sonny is being extremely flexible at this point, so perhaps some negotiation is possible, especially considering no [...]
The Man Who Understands
The caricature on the left is a familiar sight to anyone that’s ever tried to answer the question, “How the hell do I make a comic?” Scott McCloud is one of the pioneers of taking comics seriously, and thinking about them in a critical way. He wrote the ground breaking [...]
It’s Up
And it feels good.
It’s a little surreal, though ultimately meaningless if you’re not a gamer. But I’ve been faithfully reading IGN on an almost daily basis for years now. As far as I’m concerned, they’re just about the best place to go for a more casual approach to games, comics, movies and [...]
Thunder & Lightning, Very Very Frightening
Today was all about the work. I’ve been working away at the script for the anthology, and for once I have a title. I’m loathe to say what it is here since I don’t want to give away too much at such an early stage, but it’s nice [...]
Comics & Cities
The weekend continued with more temperatures in the 20’s. Pretty much everyone was in a T-shirt on the streets, except for some men-folk who actually went topless. Man, that blows my mind, considering that you can stay out all day without breaking a sweat. Or at least, you can if [...]
Weekends Feel Like Weekends Again
Another Saturday rolls by and I’m reminded of the fact that here, in Toronto, a weekend feels like a weekend again. People who have never been to Singapore probably don’t know this, but when it comes to places like offices, many Singapore companies have a 5 1/2 day work week, [...]