About
What is Clattertron?
Clattertron is my outlet for nonsense since I decided to make danieljhogan.com a portfolio site.
As an outlet for nonsense, Clattertron features my comic strips, humor writing, and other blogging. Comics and my writing can be on any subject, be it Xerxes and the Hellespont or cheating at board games.
Humor Writing
As with most humor writing, situations and details might be exaggerated or changed for the sake of humor (or to ‘protect the innocent.’).
In short, don’t treat any of my Humor posts as 100% The Honest Truth. However, most are true, as truth is stranger than fiction.
News posts, however, are mostly exaggeration free (but still might have jokes).
The Comics
If you enjoy crazy characters and off-beat humor, you have come to the right place. Here’s a Cast page for the comics, such as it is. Most comics are one-shot ‘gag a day’ stuff, but a few characters keep popping up.
I draw, letter, and ink the comics on paper with pencil and various pens. I do the last touches, like clean up, in Photoshop.
Clattertron title and face logo designed by Steve Jencks (also of Lost Highway’s B-movies and Cult Films).
All content, unless noted, is copyright Daniel J. Hogan and all rights reserved. If you wish to reprint a comic or a blog post, just ask first.
Who is Daniel J. Hogan?
How’s that for a pretentious, SEO-centric heading?
Photo by Ray Hernandez.
I do a lot, and sadly very little involves solving mysteries with a talking dog. I’m a blogger, freelance writer, podcaster, photographer, and I live in Lansing, Michigan.
I’m the author of the fantasy satire novel, The Magic of Eyri (and creator of the accompanying podcast) and I was the Geek half of the podcast/blog Ginger and the Geek (which came to an end in late 2012). I also write for Lost Highway’s B-movie Reviews, The Idler, and the Capital Area District Libraries Blog.
I also teach adult education classes on blogging, WordPress, podcasting, and social media. Yes, with a classroom and everything.
Though my drawing skills might suggest otherwise, I studied animation (and film) in college. The Clattertron comics are a continuation, of sorts, of the strange humor featured in the animated shorts I produced in college (Lunch Date, Tracker Joe’s Space Safari, Advice).
I am also putting the last touches on a new fantasy-humor novel, Riddle of the White Gun (which I will not self-publish, like I did Magic of Eyri).
I live with my fiancée Stephanie and our cat Nigel. Both are experts at giving me disapproving looks.
You can find me on Twitter, @danieljhogan.
What’s with the eye-patch in the photo?
Exactly.
OK. Ever since I wore it as a joke during an Ignite Lansing presentation (“How to Survive Writing a Novel“), it stuck. Ray, who took the photo for a class, asked me to wear it for a few shots. I loved one of the photos, and decided it would be a good fit here (because, I figured after having a comic about a talking deer skull, anything goes, right?).
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