Patch Zircher

A few stray Penguins still waddling about.

They're great. Endings for what ails us. Beautiful conclusions.

Middlemarch has a special place in my heart because a passage from it was read at my wedding:

"That things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs."

-- George Eliot

Latest read, Middlemarch (1871) by George Eliot; optimistic young women marry--and each face trials and tribulations in provincial Middlemarch.
A strong argument could be made that this is the greatest Victorian age novel.
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"His native warm-heartedness took a great deal of quenching."

George Eliot had a very reserved way of describing sex and desire :)
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Macbeth.
I can't ignore how much it overlaps with my love of fantasy and horror.

Happy birthday, Laird!

Agree.

Sounds gross but it lay perfectly flat along my skull. I didn't know it was there. A decade later I feel a bump, a few days later the tip of the thorn is sticking out.
"Wtf, am I growing a horn?"
I grabbed the tip and it slid right out.

At the county landfill, a reckless dozer operator came too close and part of a palm tree hit my head and shoulder.
Ten years later I pulled an inch and a half long thorn/sliver, from one of the palm fronds, out of my temple.

Probably. I'll watch the first one anytime. The second one, I've seen twice.

:)
Ray Ban and Meta are giving you the reasons.

What I'm saying is:
I want high industry page rates
and
I want to make anything I feel like making

--may be at odds with each other.

I know this sounds counter-intuitive to creativity-- but so is starving.
If a publisher almost becomes vanity press-- the rates are going to reflect that.

There are pros & cons to comic publishers taking chances, or letting creators do their thing. On the surface it sounds good. But often it leads to diminishing returns and lower page rates-- because the hits are few between.
A strong publisher has to say no. Know what Not to bankroll.

4 years ago an award winning novelist and I walked away from an offer that was about a 50% cut from my standard rate. And to budget even that we would have had to underpay the letterer and colorist.
Just 'no'.

Was this 30, 35, 40 years ago?

Three times I almost worked for Dark Horse.

Three times I said I can't work for page rates that low.

I was thinking of the Preston Payne Clayface stories in Detective.

Talarico reminds me of Jimmy Carter's campaign. All the things the Right's base (use to) respect but a Democrat.
Sincere (we hope), lawful, religious (yet believes in separation of church and state).
I've said that's how you win in red states for years and if he wins Texas I'm going to say it again.

Guido Crepax

And yes, I had Creepy stories green lit years back but refused when they said they would not revert story rights to me.

I understand not owning a story which uses a publisher's characters.
I do not understand contributing to an anthology like Creepy or Eerie, writing an all new horror story, and their owning it.
No prose horror anthology does this.
Why are comics this way?

Weird how people hold office yet you know they couldn't manage a Denny's.

The talk to your friends app and the witness the horrors app being the same app is not great for the mental health is it

Trying to find a conscience in this administration is like a game of Where's Waldo without a Waldo on the page.

Also, break your walls up, stagger them with archways, recesses, etc. Place objects against them. Throw shit in there even if you're not quite sure it's architecturally sound. Interesting is what matters.
3 ruled lines connecting to make a 'Y', and leaving it at that, is awful.

This is a simple floor background but it reminds me of something I'm seeing that artists want to watch out for.
That's perspective lines leading to mechanical drawing. Lay down some guide lines, sure, but get in there and wing it.
People like drawings not lifeless mechanical lines.

Those are fun comics.