Before Shards of Reflection started up, I had to sit down and give Mina from the Dead Deception a more cleaned up look. Part of why I wanted to figure out Enternatech’s logo is so I could put it on stuff like the back of Mina’s jacket for a couple of stories before it is important to the plot. It was important that she look recognizable to her more out of it/less put together look in The Dead Deception. But that it’s also clean she is more together.
Shards of Reflection page 25 is up. You can also read pages early by backing my patreon. Right now you can read to page 29.
Lucy is a singer in a punk band for the end of Shards of Reflection. She’s at the end of the comic but I’ll probably use her again for another story. So I wanter her design to be memorable that someone could connect the two stories.
Shards of Reflection page 24 is up. You can also read pages early by backing my patreon. Right now you can read to page 28.
Hi everyone! And welcome to everyone who signed up for my newsletter at San Diego Comic Con. It was fun to see a San Diego Comic Con where comics were the focus again.
If you’re new here I’m making these comics:
My day job is an editor at the manga company Seven Seas and the indie comic publisher Iron Circus Comics. I like folklore, fantasy, and especially like werewolves.
This month I’m making tweaks to my website. So we finished some more minor switches like adding more social media buttons to the top bar. But this month we are gonna revamp the store section. Speaking of the store, Misfits of Avalon volume 1 is out of print. I just sent the last ten copies to White Squirrel who handles my store fulfillment. I’m not gonna sell it at cons anymore. In about a year or so, I’ll probably talk to Darkhorse about putting it back online and printing an omnibus.
This month’s werewolf movie is The Howling 2. I’m showing it in my discord server August 30th at 5pm PST. Pop in to join if you like!
As always I’ll be streaming art on Twitch. My schedule is currently the following:
On August 24th, we’ll have Tracy Butler of Lackadaisy Cats on Iron Circus Geekshow as a guest to close out the wildly successful Iron Circus crowdfund for Lackadaisy Season 1.
So last month I was too wiped to post photos of going to the Del Tor that I went to in June. But I sat down and put them in a drive that anyone can browse. So have a look if you wanna see some of the puppets used in the Pinnocino movie.
While I was at San Diego Comic Con, I went to a Junji Ito exhibit. It was very cool seeing his originals. I always think its cool to see how different artists end up using white out or what needs correcting. All the photos I took during SDCC are also in a drive for you to browse.
If you just want to see cosplayers though and not horror art I posted cosplay photos on my instagram.
As for what I’m working on, I’m still playing catch up on stuff from shake ups at Iron Circus Comics. So I’m officially putting You are the Chosen One on hold until I have Blue Moon scripted. I might put it on hold longer because I realize I’m almost half way through Shards of Reflection and haven’t finished the next City Between stories’s script. I’m pretty sure more people read/are interested in The City Between than You are the Chosen One. So it’s got to take priority.
Some time this month I need to find time to clean up Murky Water. It got it’s first proofreading pass and I need to fix text. Then I need to start building a crowdfund for it and decide when and where to run it. Iron Circus has been having good luck with Backerkit, but it’s back end is overly complicated in my opinion. Meanwhile, I said last year that I probably wasn’t gonna use Kickstarter again because of them moving to the blockchain. They have kinda walked that back, but not 100%. Either this month or next, I’ll type something up and ask what you all think of both platforms.
With all this on my plate, I haven’t had much time to check out new stuff. Plus with the writers/actor strike, I don’t want to promo any TV or Movies I’ve been watching. The makes my what I’ve been checking out section pretty focused/brief.
I started reading Berserk.
And it’s really really good.
If you are unfamiliar with Berserk, it’s a classic manga/anime. And about a year ago it’s creator, Kentaro Miura, died. Since then more and more people online have been giving it new attention and encouraged people to sit down and read it. The youtuber Super Eyepatch Wolf had a video that got me interested, Then FD Signifier brought it up in his videoessay about masculinity and anime. And then War Rocket Ajax reviewed it on Comic Catch up. So I pulled the trigger and read a big chunk of it.
And like I said, it’s really really. It’s extremely violent and frequently indulges in edge lord levels of grim dark. So skip it if you don’t like extreme violence. But there is some beautiful character moments that are all the more touching because they contrast the violence.
It’s just some really good comic storytelling.
That’s it for this month. Thanks everyone for your support!