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I’m at table B-12! Right up front! Stop by and get some books! I’ll have copies of Failure to Launch!

Perfect Crime Party is currently crowdfunding! I mentioned it last month but this is the newest anthology I edited for Iron Circus. There is a lot of fun lighthearted crime stories. So please grab yourself a copy!

This months werewolf movie is An American Werewolf in Paris. I’ll be hosting it on my discord September 17th at 4pm pt. If you wanna join, just sign up for my discord here. I starting to run out of the big deal werewolf movies. So I’m also open to recommendations. 

• Tuesday 8pm-10pm PST – Art times
• Wednesday 8pm-10pm PST – Art times
• Thursday 6pm-8pm PST (during the Iron Circus Geekshow)
• Sunday 8pm-11pm PST – Playing Baldur’s Gate 3

Please stop by!

I spent a big chunk of August traveling. I went to Worldcon for the first time. It was in Glasgow, Scotland. My thought was if I didn’t like the con, then I could just leave and do something touristy. I did end up enjoying the con and I plan to go when it’s in Seattle next year. My hotel was about a 20 min to the convention center but it was pretty nice and along the river. 

If you don’t know, Worldcon is a sci-fi fantasy con where the Hugos are held. It’s in a different city every year. While there is some fan stuff, it is mainly aimed at pros and aspiring pros. As such the vibe was very different at Worldcon that the many comic shows I’ve been to. I think a lot of the panels at comic cons are basically press releases. There are some panels on craft, but they usually get buried/given bad time slots. Which makes sense because those comic shows are more focused on fans and sales. 

So it was nice to listen to some topics with writing being the focus. I particularly liked one I went to about governments in sci-fi and fantasy and why those two genres tend toward writing about fascism or monarchy. I went because in The City Between, Connor’s husband Jordan is their worlds equivalent of the governor. I think I got some good notes and ideas on how to flesh that angle out more in future stories.

Also at Worldcon I grabbed some new books. One I ready finished, To Shape a Dragon’s Breath. It is about a native girl who finds a dragon. Her people used to have dragons but were wiped out when white settlers started colonizing the area. Said white colonizers also have a lot of laws about dragons, so she has to go to one of their schools for dragon riders. It was very well written and I got through it pretty fast. My one complaint is at the beginning the main character is a bit too nice for my tastes. That isn’t a flaw with the book, just my personal taste. I frequently like characters that are trash monsters to the point where my friends tell me they can’t watch someone of my favorite shows because everyone is too awful. So me thinking a character is too nice, is probably a plus for everyone else. 

After Worldcon, I stayed in Glasgow an extra day to explore. I was traveling with my pal Bones Leopard who wanted to visit the Glasgow Necropolis. I took a lot of graves I thought had cool designs. 

Right next to it is Glasgows Cathedral. So we also popped in and I took a bunch of pictures of that. 

Afterward, Bones feet started to hurt, so I ended up wandering around on my own and talking pictures of architecture I thought was neat. And while exploring I came across a group of bagpipers performing. 

After that I went to Edinburgh for a few days. Mostly I walked around and saw some performances. The Fridge Fest was going on while I was there. So I got to see a few fun street performances. On day was pretty rainy in the afternoon so I spelt it in the National Museum of Scotland. But the big thing I did in Edinburgh was I climbed Arthur’s Seat. The view was amazing!

I put all my Scotland pictures in my google drive. Anyone who wants to see them can browse here. The folder includes:

• a bunch of buildings I thought looked neat in Glasgow and Edinburgh
• walking along the river
• all the graves I took pics of
• a religion museum next to the graveyard and cathedral
• inside the cathedral
• the oldest house in Glasgow (each floor showed it in a different time period)
• some landscapes/hills taken from inside the train to Edinburgh
• climbing Arthur’s Seat
• photos from the National Museum of Scotland

The whole trip was fun. I also got to hang out with Kate Ashwin in person. Iron Circus wants to do a boxset of Cautionary Fables, so we sat down and figured out what we want the box to look like. 

Now that I’m home I’m gonna rest up and focus on The City Between. I have like 4 pages left of Shards of Reflection to finish up. So I need to make sure the next story, Glass Diamonds, is ready to go fairly soon. One that is done I need to rearrange my patreon a bit.

Obviously, I haven’t had time to get back to You are the Chosen One in over a year. But Patreon removed goals from Patreon over a year ago. When I started You are the Chosen One, I was using goals as a milestone to justify when either You are the Chosen One or The City Between could have another update day. The goal is removed and I wouldn’t have time to do that even if my patreon did reach it. So I need to reassess what I’m doing. I will probably start posting it publicly, however I don’t know if I want to rotate it’s chapters with The City Between with updates on Wednesdays, or just post it whenever. 

Also, Patreon removing goals was a more minor example it continuiously making unhelpful changes. The newest of which is them forcing everyone to switch to a different payment model. Basically, until this month, I charged all my Patreon backers on the 1st. That is how subsciptions used to work on all patreons. But they thought that was a problem because sometimes someone would sign up the 25th of a month and then be charged twice in a short amount of time.

For the past year, Patreon has been pushing creators to switch to everyone gets charged on whatever day they signed up on a monthly basis. While pushing everyone to make this change, they also made an app, one that barely works. Because they made an app, now anyone who pays via the app is giving Apple 30% of what they pay. This sucks but it is thing that has been known and talked about in the tech community for years. Like before Comixology died, it wouldn’t let you buy things in it’s Apple app BECAUSE of this 30% fee.

So Patreon has made some news posts complaining that Apple is doing this. But the sneaky part is they are using Apple enforcing it’s shitty TOS as an excuse to force creators to switch to new subscription model. The new model is worse for me because well it’s nice to get a big chunk of money all at once each month, rather than have it trickle in day.

Anyway, this was fuuuuun news to come back to when I was very jet-lagged. There is a new patreon-like service called Comradery. It definately looks appealing. So I’ll probably look into mirroring my patreon content on there. But that will probably be something I sit down and figure out in like December rather than right now. For now I gotta focus on keeping The City Between running. 

That’s all for this month. Thanks everyone for you support as always!

I’ve been hearing a lot of reports of folks getting covid at comic con, so I hope everyone who went and is reading this also dodged it and if they didn’t that they rest up. Also, thank you do the new people who signed up for this newsletter at the show!

If you are new here, here’s a run down of my stuff:

• Blue Moon is a werewolf romance gn I’m writing and Meredith McClarren is going to draw. I’m late on its script.
• The City Between is my webcomic about werewolves in the future. It updates Wednesdays. The current story is called Shards of Reflection. I’m scripting the next one which is called Glass Diamonds. 
• You are the Chosen One is a fantasy comic about 23 kids who got the same prophecy dream. It was posting on Fridays on my Patreon. But my editorial work has been piling up/overwhelming me lately. So it’s on hold until I finish up some other stuff.

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 Iron Circus will be crowdfund an anthology I edited called Perfect Crime Party! It’s goofy light hearted stories about crime! Jeff Smith did the cover. Usually, I’d link you to a preview page but we don’t have that live yet. So just follow Iron Circus on backerkit to get notified about the book. Tonally, we told creators to aim for something like the Clue movie. 

For the new here, I host a werewolf movie every full moon in my fan discord. This month we will be watch The Beast Must Die! an old 70’s movie. We will be watching is August 19th at 4pm PST. Click here if you wanna join!

And I’m traveling the first half of this month, so I can’t stream on twitch until the 18th. But after that I’ll be back on my usual schedule.  

• Tuesday 8pm-10pm PST – Art times
• Wednesday 8pm-10pm PST – Art times
• Thursday 6pm-8pm PST (during the Iron Circus Geekshow)
• Sunday 8pm-11pm PST – Playing Baldur’s Gate 3

Please stop by!

The last anthology I edited for Iron Circus hit stores! So if you missed Failure to Launches crowdfund, you can now get it at a store near you. You can’t get it from the Iron Circus store yet, because they don’t add books to stores until crowdfunds are fullfilled. But I’ve been told it is a big hit with bored dads. 😛 (Basically dads that usually just dick around on their phone while their family members shop have been picking up, flipping through, and then buying the book. The picture below is the dad table as a shop)

The big thing I did last month was obviously going to comic con! I have some more traveling to do now that I’m back so I didn’t do a whole lot at the show other than sell stuff. But I did take lots of pictures of cosplayers (most of which were from Baldur’s Gate 3). Here’s some of my favorites!
You can see the rest here.

We got Bahl’s chosen!

Laezel with some rad armor!

Sexy Elder Brain, a Tav, and a Alfina

Regina George with a backbrace

Rocky from Lackadaisy

Halsin with a duck!

Mario Cart crew!

I forget what these ninja guys from Zelda are called. But they looked great. 

Slutty Gambit

And the Delicious in Dungeon crew. 

Also Paramont forgot to send artwork or didn’t have artwork ready for the SDCC badges. So everyone’s badge just had the Paramount logo on them. Very professional. 😛

This month I’m mostly gonna be working on finishing up Shards of Reflection. but first I’m going to Scotland! I’m going to Worldcon/visiting my good friend Kate Ashwin. I’m gonna try to do some writing while there (or at least on the very long flight). 

While working this month I mostly stuck to watching stuff on Nebula since a lot of the youtubers I like are on there making extra things. I rather enjoyed Jessie Gender’s Intentiteaze short film. It’s doing a good streamlining the story to build the metaphor it’s making about strictly enforcing the gender binary. I did wish it would have dug a bit deeper into that metaphor, but in her commentary Jessie Gender mentioned trying to get Nebula to fund it as a series. So fingers crossed I get that deeper dive. 

I also watched a 3 hour video about Drake vs Kendrick. I knew basically nothing about them but it really pulled me in. FD Signifier does a great job of laying the groundwork what was going on in hiphop that all culminated in Drake rising in popularity and how Kendrick countered it. 

Also, one of the first titles I was assigned at Seven Seas, My Deer Friend Nokotan has gotten an anime. The mange is super weird in a good way and has a real dada sense of humor. The anime continued that trend. Check it out if you want something super off the wall. The stuff in that trailer does not make more sense in context. 

That is for this month. Thanks everyone for your support! And if you got a few extra bucks, consider backing my patreon. 

Next City Between features a scene where Connor and Rebecca spar. So I wanted to plan out what scars Connor has that the reader hasn’t seen. I don’t think I’m completely satisfied with them currently. Might takes another crack at it. 

I have finished the game I was working on! Teething is a time management puzzle game. You play as a single parent of a werewolf child. You must prep your basement for the full moon to ensure your kid doesn’t get out. It is part of Iron Circus’s indie game bundle, along with 5 other games. Its crowdfund is going live June 24th. You can sign up to get notified here. 

There is a small one day convention at Books with Pictures in Portland, Oregon. It is free to attend. So if you have time on June 15th, stop by!

Also the discord full moon movie this month is gonna be Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. The past few movies have more gorier, so I wanted to do something goofy this month. 

We’ll be watching June 21st at 5pm PST. If you wanna join, can pop into my discord here. 

I’m still streaming on Twitch regularly. 

• Tuesday 8pm-10pm PST – Art times
• Wednesday 8pm-10pm PST – Art times
• Thursday 6pm-9pm PST (during the Iron Circus Geekshow)
• Sunday 8pm-11pm PST – Playing Baldur’s Gate 3

Please stop by!

I mentioned last month that I am gonna stream playing Baldur’s Gate 3. I’ve been saving the streams on my youtube. I’ve put them in a playlist.

I also did a goofy comic summary of the second stream. 

I’m going to try to keep doing these when I have time. Because I wanted to get better at quick doodles rather than going all out all the time. It will give me a little bit of a break only drawing for work rather than to goof off. 

Also last month I mentioned all I had left to move was to hang up some art I have framed. I got all that hung up and took some pictures. Here’s a look for you all!

This section is mostly commissions I got of my characters. 

The big picture is a limit Discworld print. The letters surrounding it are fan made letters from Discworld characters. A Moist Von Lipwig cosplayer would hand them out to people who recognized them.

Some random smaller ones. 

Commissions I’ve gotten of Wolf from The 10th Kingdom. They are in my kitchen. :3

Some original comic pages. They are from Finder, BPRD, Vattu, The Wicked and the Divine, and Angel & Faith.

Bernie Wright illustrations from Cycle of the Werewolf are running above my TV. 

With Teething done, I’m glad to have one less thing off my plate. I’m gonna give my non-streaming work time to focusing on writing the next story in The City Between. It’s called Glass Diamonds. I don’t usually post scripts or writing stuff on my patreon. But would that interest people? Let me know. It’s so much easy to share art related stuff online. I never know what to share when I focus on writing. Maybe I can post a scene I like? Let me know. 

Most of what I’m watching lately is keeping up with Interview with the Vampire. Over a year ago, I mentioned back how much I liked the first season. It is keeping the good stuff. I am very curious to see where it goes, especially with Daniel and Armand. In the books the two of them end up in a toxic codependent relationship. The way Daniel is needling Armand and Louis in the interview and the flash of the past Daniel keeps seeing are really grabbing my attention. 

Also, digging up that link from a year and a half ago is making me realize how much I need to get back to consuming new media. I’ve not had much time. I’ll need to fix that now that videogame stuff is out the door. 

In the meantime, I’ve also been getting back into running. There are bunnies on my jogging route! Look at this little guy!

That’s all for this month! Take care. 

I have officially finished moving (except I need to hang up some more art). I got some big stuff like the pictures above, but I’m waiting for the framing place to finish up with some smaller pieces. Those will be done next week. The stuff in the photo above are the leads from Berserk as drawn by Robert Wilson in the big frames, the Iron Giant by Patric Renyolds, and the Sailor Scouts by Chira. Not in the picture is I framed and hung up prints of the illustrations from Cycle of the Werewolf and a very nice Tales of Earthsea print by Charles Vess. Basically it’s a poster of this:

The other stuff I want to make sure I have all the smaller pieces frames to they look nice together. In particular I have a big Discworld print that I don’t want to hang up until I have some smaller Discworld stuff framed too. That way the match/are symmetrical. 

I’ll be sure to post pictures in next months newsletter when they are all up.  

Last month allergies and Benadryl caused me to sleep through when my discord was supposed to watch Late Phases. So this month I’m gonna give it one more try on this movie. 

So Thursday May 23rd, join me in my discord at 4pm PST to watch Late Phases. 

Also, I’m currently out of town, but after the 8th I’ll be back to streaming regularly. I’ll be streaming art on Twitch. My schedule is currently the following:

• Tuesday 8pm-10pm PST
• Wednesday 8pm-10pm PST
• Thursday 6pm-9pm PST (during the Iron Circus Geekshow)

Also, a new stream will be happening on Sundays at 8pm PST. I’m gonna stream playing Baldur’s Gate 3. I’m playing as a tiefling bard. I just started, so if you join me Sunday the 12th, you’ll have only missed me playing the tutorial section. And if you want to watch me play the tutorial, I posted it on my youtube.

This is my tiefling. Aren’t they pretty? u_u
They have max charisma and dexterity. But their constitution and strength are as low as possible. Breathing on them too hard will kill him. Should be fun.

Moving and allergies killing my thoughts ate up all my time. So really the first Baldur’s Gate stream is the only thing someone might have missed. 

Part of why I’m streaming Baldur’s Gate is because I still have a lot to do. But I really want to play. So if I limit it to while I’m streaming, that will stop me from playing all day every day until I beat the game. 

I still have a couple of loose ends to tie up for the videogame Teething. But I should be done with those this week. It’s just some icons. I also realized Shards of Reflections is almost done. So I’m working on scripting the next City Between story titled Glass Diamonds. It’s about Rebecca. It’s been fun getting back into the swing of writing her in all her grumbling. 

Those are gonna be the main focus this month work wise. 

Other than those I just finished watching the Fallout tv show. I liked it for the most part. It does a good job of mixing in the humor the games have in with the plot. But waiting it did make me think about how stories never seem interested in rebuilding. Basically, I remember Hbomberguy saying in his video covering Fallout: New Vegas that it was the last time the Fallout series tried to move the world forward. Like the NCR have developed enough that they had remade money, but Fallout 3 and Fallout 4 went back to using caps as currency. While the show is its own timeline, it still kinda has the thing of setting things back to square one. So Fallout is kinda stuck at same state even though it’s been 200 years. 

It’s not really the fault of the show itself, but more just an observation that we don’t get make stories willing to show something new being built. 

That’s all I got for the month. Thanks for your support everyone! Take care. Please remember to check out and back my patreon!