by Daniel Stalter | Jun 10, 2021 | Essays
I switched majors during my freshman year at SUNY Oneonta. I was thinking of transferring to film school, so I began to study Mass Communication. One of the first courses I took with my new major was Intro to Mass Communications. My professor, Jon Arakaki, opened his...
by Daniel Stalter | Jan 13, 2021 | Essays
It’s the start of another new year. The clusterfuck of 2020 is over. And while the pandemic is still raging, there is an end (hopefully) in sight. This is the time of year when we typically see people signing on gym memberships, starting diets, and buying fashionable...
by Daniel Stalter | Dec 8, 2020 | Essays
Or: Get me drunk at a party and I will tell you more than you ever wanted to know about plane crashes. I’ve run out of plane crash documentaries to watch on all of the streaming apps I have. That includes all 13 seasons of Air Disasters, which I burned through...
by Daniel Stalter | Nov 10, 2020 | Essays
This past year has been difficult in a lot of ways for almost everyone I know. From the 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...
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...
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