Hey! I’m Hayden Mears.
Why, hello there! Welcome to my humble little corner of the internet.
I’m a Seattle-based journalist, ghostwriter, comics writer, and autism advocate who believes in the transformative might of a great story.
I don’t want this to be a typical personal website. I want this to be a vibrant, quirky reflection of who I am, what I find funny, and where my heart is when I create. That’s why you’ll find offbeat games (mainly just marginally amusing quizzes), rampant irreverence, and more dumb wordplay and recycled joke formats than you’d wish upon the most annoying person you know.
I’ve been an entertainment journalist since 2011, when the now-defunct Lytherus.com brought me in as a news writer and occasional reviewer. From there, I nabbed gigs at Salon, IGN, IndieWire, Paste Magazine, Collider, TVLine, and others.
I also write comics. For a more detailed bio, go here.
My entertainment reporting has been featured in over a dozen online and print publications, with the bulk of my recent contributions appearing in Starburst Magazine, TVLine and IGN. I also contribute to Salon, Paste Magazine, IndieWire, Inverse, the Eisner Award-winning comic magazine PanelxPanel, Newsarama, SuperHeroHype, ComicsBeat, HeyUGuys, and others.
My Latest Articles
- MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Lightyear’ isn’t God-tier Pixar, but it’s still damn goodImage: Pixar Pixar has given us prestige animation off and on for decades. The legendary animation studio is maddeningly good at validating and illuminating our humanity — often by vivifying [...]Read more
- 5 Most Important Things to Know About How Sensory Overwhelm Can Impact Autistic PeopleAuthor’s Note: I am not a medical professional. I’m an autistic adult who has lived these struggles and observed their implications. Autism is still a vastly misunderstood disorder. [...]Read more
I have written extensively on film for various outlets. Here are some of my latest…
