by Daniel Stalter | Nov 10, 2020 | Essays
This past year has been difficult in a lot of ways for almost everyone I know. From canceled travel plans and comic conventions to lost jobs and careers put on hold, there’s been no shortage of shitty news to go around. It’s been too easy to feel defeated. I consider...
by Daniel Stalter | Jun 30, 2020 | Essays
Last year I wrote and produced a short comic called “Euphoria.” It was originally created for the anthology Crush: First Love, New Talent (Stacked Deck Press) that was edited by Tara Madison Avery and Viktor Kerney. The book did not meet its funding goal...
by Daniel Stalter | Apr 23, 2020 | Essays
I still have the PowerPoint I made for a TV series called Ares. It was an assignment for my college senior seminar class. While it never got picked up, I ultimately folded it’s core ideas into a novel I started writing the following year. That abandoned novel was my...
by Daniel Stalter | Jan 16, 2020 | Essays
Or: How I Quit Procrastinating and Learned to Love the Morning Back in 2018, I was diagnosed with ADHD. This should come as no surprise to anyone who has ever lived with me. Which is to say: if you’ve ever seen me start to pack a suitcase and stop to reorganize...
by Daniel Stalter | Dec 31, 2019 | Essays
Lots of people were doing ten-year photo challenges, and I got to thinking about who I was ten years ago. Then I decided to channel my best Janet Jackson and do my own Design of a decade, in spite of having no hits to speak of. The task was relatively simple; I chose...
by Daniel Stalter | Apr 11, 2019 | Essays
I held a personal grudge against the A train for a long time. I used to rely on it daily to commute to commute from Bushwick to Washington Heights. Maybe it seems irrational to hate a piece of infrastructure to the point of personifying it and giving it motives but...
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