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Trae Dorn has been attending and working at conventions for over 20 years. If you'd like to know more about them, view the whole page about Trae here

Find Me at UWEC GEEKcon on Saturday!

Posted on December 3, 2025 by Trae Dorn

Well the world is dark and cold, which means it’s time to do something fun — and in this case that something fun is go do a convention. This Saturday, December 6th, I’m going to be at UWEC GEEKcon at
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Home Earlier Than Expected, But Safe

Posted on November 28, 2025 by Trae Dorn

Right now I’m sitting in my favorite chair in my living room, safely home after having spent Thanksgiving with most of my family in Milwaukee. Normally I’d still be there, and wouldn’t have come home until tomorrow night — but
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I Guess I Sometimes Review Movies (Again)?

Posted on November 25, 2025 by Trae Dorn

This has been a strange week for a lot of reasons, but one of those reasons is deeply ironic. If you recall I wrote a whole blog entry about how I don’t care about having a large audience — instead
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Audiences, Community, and the Value of Interacting

Posted on November 20, 2025 by Trae Dorn

As a person who makes creative projects and publishes them on the internet, there’s a push to find the largest audience possible. Modern social media focuses on follower count and reaching as many folks as possible, but the more I
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Happy Birthday to Lynn Baxter

Posted on November 17, 2025 by Trae Dorn

November 17th 1984 is the canonical birthdate of Lynn Guadalupe Baxter, one of the main characters of Full Circle (2006), UnCONventional (2009-2019), and Peregrine Lake (2024-current). That makes today her official 41st birthday. So, uh, happy birthday to a fake
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You Need to Start a Blog.

Posted on November 13, 2025 by Trae Dorn

You need to start writing a blog. Yes, you — the person who is reading this right now, either on my blog or a syndicated version on one of the websites I distribute this to. You need to go out,
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November Hits My Brain Like a Hammer

Posted on November 7, 2025 by Trae Dorn

Way back in 2011 I ran probably one of the best known storylines in UnCONventional called “I Hate November.” In the comic, Lynn is pretty much just having a shitty time. We find out some of her backstory, but the
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Going Black and White

Posted on October 28, 2025 by Trae Dorn

So back in December, you may have noticed that the webcomic I make with Ethan Flanagan, Peregrine Lake, went from color to black and white. The intention, originally, was to have this be a temporary situation. We always meant for
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Constant Website Vigilance

Posted on October 22, 2025 by Trae Dorn

One of the most frustrating things over the last few months has been dealing with my website getting constantly hit with requests from malicious bots repeatedly hammering and scraping my website. Back at the beginning of August I described it
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Generative AI Music Fills Me With Rage

Posted on October 17, 2025 by Trae Dorn

I talked about this back in May, but I’ve sometimes go out and play around with different generative AI products just to see what they can do. I never share what I “make,” and I never even mention what I’m
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UnCONventional is a comic that ran from December 2009 to December 2019 about the staff of a small town anime convention and their lives. This is a complete online archive of the comic.

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