I’m a writer and newspaper editor living in the Northern Berkshires of Massachusetts. I’ve written for millions of places over a period of far fewer years and I’ll talk about some of my favorites here.

This main part of the site is a place to put my fun creative work and pass along news. If you go to my archive you will find a pretty thorough archive of my professional articles, interviews, reviews, opinion pieces, and more, that I have written over the last several years – film, comics, music, contemporary art, science, and plenty of other topics.

First and foremost, you should check out my web site with my wife Jana Christy, with whom I have collaborated for years and years on a number of projects. Most recently our children’s book “Happy, Sad, Silly, Mad: My World Makes Me Feel” was published by Andrews McMeel.

Prior to that, our travel memoir, “Four Go Mad in Massachusetts,” was published by Commonwealth Editions.

In proper daylight, I’m the arts and entertainment editor at the North Adams Transcript in Massachusetts. This means a lot of different things. I’ve been there, covering the art scene, for 8 years now, and that includes contemporary art, music, film, and comics. As well as articles and interviews, I have served as a film, art, and music critic, and my long-running column, The Kiosk, features all that, with a focus on graphic novels that will appeal to people out in the real world. Prior to that, for several years, I wrote the humor column Megabits And Pieces, which chronicled weird Internet diversions — that also appeared in the Bennington Banner.

Before and during my tenure at the Transcript, I have worked as a freelance writer. I am currently the comics reviewer for Worcester Magazine and a regular contributor to Publishers Weekly. I have had other regular columns in my past — a humor columnist for the late Boston-area music magazine Cheeseball and the family travel columnist for the Middlesex Beat.

I’ve also written articles for a number of area publications that I won’t go into, except to say that the Boston Globe accounts for a good bit of that work.

I also curated an online gallery show looking at web comics for Greylock Arts in Adams, MA, called “.Comics.” This digital show was featured in a physical space at MCLA Gallery 51 in North Adams last year, via computer kiosk.

In the 1990s, I wrote the comic book Very Vicky. Some people seem to remember that, much to my surprise. Vicky appeared in her own comic book, as well as some others, including Negative Burn and Cerebus. Our Very Vicky Junior Hepcat Funbook featured guest work by the likes of Brian Michael Bendis, Dave Sim, Steve Bissette, Rick Veitch, Evan Dorkin, and others. At the time, I also published the zine That Skinny Bastard, focusing on the films of Frank Sinatra, which landed me a big photo in the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine and an interview with future fiction superstar Chris Bohjalian. Those were the days!

I am also a photographer and this blog indulges that side of me often. My work has appeared in a few places locally over the years, as well as in the newspaper and a few other publications.

I’m an avid music collector and I like to put up short podcasts on the blog, most notably The Musical Thingarium, each edition of which consists of 10 songs that are pulled randomly from my music server containing about 70,000 tracks from all walks of sound. It’s entirely unpredictable from edition to edition.

You might have encountered me under the name John E. Mitchell, but I no longer take the secret potion that transforms me into him.