Category: fiction

• How NOT to DJ a Preschool Graduation Ceremony

  

  This piece is a warning: If you ever find yourself tagged in as DJ for a preschool graduation ceremony, pay very careful attention to the songs you play.

  roddiesnock

  April 2, 2024

  fiction, Music, Uncategorized

  advice, Bananaphone, Captain Underpants, children’s music, DJ, drunk, event, family, funk, gig, graduation, hip hop, how to, kids music, mix, Mr. Rogers, Muppets, Music, parenting, pre-K, preschool, punk, Raffi, rock, school, Shel Silverstein, soul, stoned, wasted

• Comp Book Comp – February 2023

  

  A few (mostly) recent entries in my Lynda Barry-inspired comics journal, compiled here to entertain and perplex you.

  roddiesnock

  February 19, 2023

  comics, fiction, nonfiction

  cartoon, cartoonist, comics, composition book, digital, DIY, independent, journal, lynda barry, making comics, memoir, punk, roddie snock, sandcastle, snottyrock, toon, webcomic

• The Miles – Issue 1: At It Again

  

  Here it is: My big January 2023 project. The Miles are a San Diego-based rock ‘n’ roll band. I’ve written about their music before. So, imagine my unbridled glee when Mike asked me to collaborate on a comic book about the band. He wrote the words and did the initial storyboard. I took on the…

  roddiesnock

  February 5, 2023

  Books, comics, fiction, Music

  analog, Band, comic, comics, digital, DIY, memoir, Music, rock, san diego, the miles, zine

• Sandcastle 1

  

  The first iteration of Sandcastle was a partly finished graphic novel written and drawn in black ink, mostly on sheets of newsprint in 2020. OK—I guess that’s not exactly true. At first, I thought Sandcastle was going to be a prose novel. And when it turned out that I didn’t want to write a novel,…

  roddiesnock

  January 13, 2022

  Books, comics, fiction

  comics, DIY, drawing, graphic novel, quarantine, sandcastle