Life of Ronnie

So now that I’ve seen all five of the Academy Award nominees for Best Picture, I thought I’d throw my two cents (Canadian) out there about what I think: Atonement In any other year, this is probably the film that would be a lock for Best Picture. It’s the kind of sweeping, romantic period piece [...]

My wife’s Grandma Lois passed away on Friday, so we are driving down to Oregon today for the funeral. I lost both of my grandmothers in the last few years, and even when they are getting old and are ready to move on to a better place, it still makes it rough. One can always [...]

I met Scott and Georgia Ball a couple of years ago now, when I joined a local cartooning club that meets in Seattle. I immediately fell in love with their comic. Back then it was called “Scooter and Ferret”, soon morphing into “Ask Maridee” when the titular Scooter (a dog) and Ferret (a… ferret) left [...]

Anna and I off to Orlando tonight for a fun-and-sun-filled week with the rest of the Routly clan, so my plan is to do a couple of comics on the road. Should they be up late, you can blame Walt Disney, or possibly the good people at Universal. Or maybe someone at Medieval Times.  I [...]

Hey, just wanted to let you all know that today’s comic is going to be a little late getting up. Being away camping all weekend, and then out day and night both today and tomorrow is going to make it difficult to get it finished the way I’d like. But I will get it done [...]

A few years ago I did a guest panel for the of Chris Whetstone’s No 4th Wall to Break, on the occasion of his comic’s first anniversary. Like most of us webcomic guys, real life got in the way and we’ve been without any N4thWtB (as those of us who like to call things names [...]

I’ve been working my way, slowly, through George R.R. Martin’s massive A Song of Ice and Fire series. The new job and its necessitated daily bus commute from Kirkland to Seattle and back has given me more time to read, and I discovered quickly that I’m going fast enough that even the (surprisingly great) King [...]

I must admit, I’m a little sad not to be able to get back up to Canada today to celebrate Canada Day. Today marks Canada’s 140th “birthday” — which is different from when we became independent (that didn’t really happen until 1982. Seriously!) and instead celebrates when we became a Dominion. Still, it’s a pretty [...]

I’ve had several people ask about the Life of Ronnie RSS feed — mainly what it is, and how to use it. RSS (which is short for “Really Simple Syndication”) is, essentially, a special kind of webpage that is useful when something has frequently updated content. You’ve probably seen RSS popping up in relation to [...]