Hi there everyone! Shards of Reflection is still kickstarting. It is going a little slow, so it will be a close call. Please spread the where ever you can.
And for folks that met me at Emerald City, thank you for getting my books and signing up for the newsletter. Here’s a run down of what I do.
- The City Between is my webcomic about werewolves in the future. It updates Wednesdays. The current story is titled Glass Diamonds. It is free to read on my website, or you can follow my patreon to get it emailed to you.
- Blue Moon is a werewolf romance graphic novel I’m writing and Meredith McClaren is going to draw.
- Cautionary Fables and Fairytales is a kid-friendly folklore anthology series I edit and organize for Iron Circus Comics.
- You are the Chosen One is a fantasy comic that is exclusive to my patreon but is currently on hold until I’ve gotten a few other things off my plate.
I have two day jobs. One is as an editor for Seven Seas, so I’ll occasionally share manga I’m editing for them. I’m also the managing editor at Iron Circus Comics. I like folklore, fantasy, and especially like werewolves.
At the end of this month I’ll be at Wondercon. So on March 27 through March 29, you can find me at table 2212. I’ll be sharing with Sam Logan.
I will still be showing movies in my discord on the Saturdays I’m not at a con. Anyone can join. Just click this link. Movies are at 11am pst. Here’s what we are watching.
- March 14 – All About Eve
- March 21 – Annihilation
- March 28 – no movie I’ll be at Wondercon
- April 4 – Battle Royale
And as usual, I’ll be streaming, thought I changed some of the times.
Everything else will be the streaming schedule:
- Tuesday at 7pm – 10pm PST – Art times
- Wednesday at 7pm – 9pm PST – Art times
- Sunday at 8pm – 10pm PST – Baldur’s Gate 3
I was guest on War Rocket Ajax to promote Shards of Reflection. We mostly talk about tv we are watching and how if I had a A Knight in the Seven Kingdoms podcast I would name is Westeros Runs on Duncan.
This month is doing a lot of to keep promoing my kickstarter. I also need to get ahead of the Glass Diamond pages before Wondercon.
I’m also recovering from Emerald City Comic Con. 10-7pm for 3 days straight is rough, especially on my feet. As I recover I’m looking into new cons to try instead of Emerald City. I mentioned why I probably wasn’t going to return to ECCC last month. I’m hundred 100% on that now. So is Kory who I share an ECCC table with. She did a long thread about how Reedpop treated us this year. This is also the tip of the iceberg over the years. I usually handle all our paperwork for Emerald City. So Kory didn’t have to call and Reedpop to fix the several mistakes they made with our table over the years like giving us a different size than we paid for, trying to double charge us.
Since Kory, Meredith (who also shares the table with us) and I all have monster stuff, we are thinking of giving to Crypticon in 2027. Kory has also been telling me to check out furry shows since werewolves is close enough. I mostly haven’t tried furry shows because I got the impression that a lot of the focus at those is on commissions and I don’t really like taking commissions at cons.
But enough retreading grips about Reedpop. Here’s stuff that I’ve been enjoying. I’m a patron backer of Skip Intro and he’s started a non-fiction book club for his patrons. We just finished The Art of Cruelty by Maggie Nelson. It’s about how violence is depicted in media/art/the news. It was an interesting read but suffered a bit because she wasn’t really arguing that it was good or bad. She was more working out her own feelings. I feel like what it made me think about rather than her particular opinions. Partly because she seemed to have wildly different opinions about some pieces (since they are mostly fairly recent examples they are all pretty easy to look up). That and this book was written in 2011. So while she talks about images being shared on the news, she doesn’t cover violence going viral on social media. There is a part where she talks what the purpose of art is, whether it be to make you feel uncomfortable or to show truth. I disagree with both. I think art is to make you feel something, good or bad.
And that kinda sentiment was kinda dug into by a youtube video I watched. I really enjoyed Jeffiot’s video Peak Art, Peak Slop. He does a dive into how people react to art that is hard to parse like David Lynch’s work vs how people react to something formulaic like Mr. Beast. There is a deep dive that into how the more complicated art sticks with us, even if we don’t like it. Basically, when it comes to more complexed art, no matter who sees it, the longer we think over a more complicated piece of art, the more we end up with sticking with us. Where as something simple and easy to process has a good chance of not being very memorable and we end up forgetting it once it is done.
It’s something I think is true to the movies I ended up watching this month. My Saturday movies started with the movie Moonlight. It had been on my to watch list since it won the Oscar. It is a truly beautiful movie. There are a lot of very long shots that let you sit with a moment or build tension. Pretty much any scene with the main character at the beach is really moving. I had kinda expected a more tragic ending, since that is what the Oscars tend to like. But instead the end is kinda bitter sweet and tender.
My discord also watched Casablanca. I had never seen it before, but I had seen the DS9 episode that is based off Casablanca. I shared with the discord some side by side comparisons. It was really good, which shouldn’t surprise anyone. Classic movies I feel can go either way, either they still knock it out of the park or they have aged really poorly. Casablanca is 100% in the first category. I especially thought it was neat how perfect Victor was. Usually in love triangles, the competition for the main character is a shit head or boring, but Victor is just a great guy in all forms and doesn’t even mind that Rick and Ilsa were a thing. I chatted with the discord that if he was even slightly a bad person, the audience would probably hate Ilsa for not staying with Rick.
I also started The Pitt this month. When I was home for the holidays, my cousin sang its praises and then Skip Intro made a video about. So I put it at the top of my list of shows to check out on HBO while I had it turned on for a few months. It is really intense in a good way. The hour by hour structure fits the ER better than it ever did 24hour. I like that you don’t really learn what happens to patience after they leave. And most stuff is unresolved because it is just the hospital that one day. Kory also started watching it, and the second season is set during the 4th of July. Kory goes to Anthrocon every year and was like “This is the 4th of July, where are the furries with heat stroke?!” then sure enough, last episode.
Another thing I checked out based on recs is Death By Lightening. It’s a mini series on Netflix about President Garfield. Skip Intro put it on his best things he watched in 2025 and I hadn’t heard of it. It follows both Garfield and Guiteau as Garfield wins the primary and then the presidency. I did know some of the story because I really like the musical Assassins and Guiteau is one of the titular assassins. Michael Shannon plays Garfield and does a great job, as does Nick Offerman as Chester Arthur. But the most brillanent casting was Matthew Macfadyen as Guiteau. He brings a lot of the same energy to the role as when he was Tom on Succession, only with an extra level of delusion. I can see why Skip Intro put on his top picks for 2025. It did make me wish that Matthew Macfadyen would sing the Ballad of Guiteau.
That’s all for this month. Thanks again for the support. Please tell your friends about my kickstarter. Also here’s a really good cosplay I saw are Emerald City
