I did a pretty in depth interview with Aarin Edwards on his blog about Dueling Analogs. It was a fun interview and it makes a good read (from my unbiased opinion). Check it out when you get the chance.

I know I no longer work on Bored and Evil, but Robert a.k.a. Peekaboo sent me this review of the Charlotte ComicCon Mini-Comic that we put together for said con. My favorite part, is about me of course:

"I was also shocked that on the inside of the cover, where it told me about layout, tracing and colours by Steven Napierski (of Outer Circle and Dueling Analogs fame)..."

Fame... that's funny.

I've posted a couple things in the bulletin area over the past few days, I just thought I would remention them here:

Dueling Analogs had its 50th comic strip today. Not really a big deal when you think of how many other webcomics have so many more strips... hell, my other webcomic the outer circle had its 428th strip today. But it was a milestone, none the less.

On the BBC's online magazine Collective, there was an article discussing gaming humor and Dueling Analogs was mentioned... granted Penny Arcade and VG Cats are mentioned as well, but I got my own paragraph that states "(I'd) hard pushed to fill a telephone kiosk"... dude that is marketing gold! Actually, it is a positive comment I just took it out of context.

Lastly, I finally got the downloads section of Dueling Analogs up and running if anyone feels like pimping my webcomic.

I thought it would be interesting to tell you guys about my history with webcomics...

My first venture into webcomics was a rather short one (six strips), it was during the beginning months of 2000. The comic was called Life with Fishnets it ran on the now defunct site called The Ink Spot which was about Norfolk Virginia's local Rocky Horror cast Fishnet Inc. Of the strips, 4 were written and drawn by Robert Koch and 2 were written and drawn by me and I also handled layout/color on all of the strips. There wasn't much too this, very unpolished but it was a precursor of things to come.

In June of 04' Robert Koch and I launched Bored and Evil. The hierarchy of this was very similar to Life with Fishnets... Robert did the pencil work and 99% of the writing, I handled vectorizing the work/layout/website. Even though Bored and Evil is still around, I quit working on it on September 2nd of 2005 which was the 200th strip of the comic. No hard feelings between Robert and I, I just wanted to focus on my own projects... never really felt Bored and Evil was mine, which is also why you don't see my name listed on the strips unless I wrote them.

One of my projects was the outer circle which launched on March 7th of 2005. This was the first webcomic where I had done everything from writing to artwork. This was originally suppose to launch on January 3rd, but I was not happy with Steve's character design... funny thing is it never changed. I showed long time friend Richard Kirsch (Neltark and Willie) my different sketches for Steve and then showed him what I was originally going to use, but wasn't happy with and he said "use that, that works perfectly". Well, I did and that's the Steve character known with the comic.

Originally planned to launch in September of 05', Dueling Analogs did not launch until November 17th. I always wanted a gaming comic, but didn't want to quit doing the outer circle... Dueling Analogs was my solution. I read a lot of gaming strips and I noticed that stories and character development wind up getting in the way of gaming comics and in turn these gaming comics wind up being less about gaming. See, I don't have that problem. Since I already have a comic with progressively developing characters I could focus Dueling on games and I did and I will continue too.

I've got other side projects I'm working on... none of which are webcomics, two are more than enough for me. I also plan of hitting some conventions in 07' especially ConnectiCon which I plan to be my first convention.

That's about it, its brief but gives you a glimpse of what's happened with me and webcomics. If you've got any questions, let me know...

Today, Friday March 31st if you go over to my Dueling Analogs profile over at The Webcomic List... Dueling Analogs is currently number 1. Is it permanent? Probably not... it happened last Saturday too. But today is Friday and there's still a lot of people online reading, so I thought I'd mention it. Thanks and here's hoping that the Ctrl Alt Del fans don't lynch me ;D

Therius made a mention that Hereees Nick....Why do I not here clapping? Damn.'s profile picture looked surpisingly like Peekaboo from the outer circle. I thought the same thing when I saw his icon, but alas its not so. In fact Robert is Peekaboo. Granted his profile picture looks less like the character than Nick's, but the picture is six years old.

So, I've decided to create an account at MySpace.com. Not quite sure what I'm going to use it for yet, but its pierski. What does that mean? Its not limited to the outer circle or Dueling Analogs or any of my other side projects, it encapuslates them all... thus the term pierski. You know with Pierski actually being a real last name, I sure am able to snatch it up when ever I want... I do own pierski.com.

Well, that's about it. Might have some neat stuff later... later.