It’s just me and the cats this week. One of Sarah’s brothers had a heart attack and she’s flown down to California to be with him. From what we know, it’s serious but no longer immediately life threatening. He will be in the hospital for a while.

I’m still off work. I’ve got appointments for physical therapy and acupuncture this week. My right arm is improving but I’m still being gentle with it.

Beyond is this week’s progress chart. I’ve added a new project and done a bunch of work on both Abyssal Saints and Observations. If I tracked general progress this chart might look more impressive but I really only want to list pages and illustrations when they are complete.

My plan for The Surrilana Depths started out simply – I intended to illustrate Morgo the Mighty. That’s it. I was just going to take the text as is and do a series of illustrations to accompany it. Once I was done I thought I might publish it as an ebook or a print on demand title.

Unfortunately, I have a tendency to make my projects more complicated the more I think about them. Morgo is almost certainly in the public domain. It was published at time when copyrights needed to be renewed and, given that both the publisher and the author are long gone, it’s unlikely that said copyright was renewed. I initially serialized the novel here on Skookworks. I copied a copy of the manuscript by typing out each chapter as a post. When I first read through the story and then when I typed it out I took in the fantasy elements more than the mundane details. Like the pointless racism.

There are some stories where the racism is an integral part of the story. The racism justifies the white hero’s awesomeness in the face of other, usually lesser, races’ awfulness. Cowboys against Indians. Gone with the Wind. Fu Manchu. And many, many more. Without the racism, those wouldn’t be the same stories.

Morgo, however? The author, John Larkin (aka Sean O’Larkin), has his characters regularly proclaiming the virtues of White Men. This is weird because there are only White Men in the story. (Yes, the first chapters take place in Nepal and feature cameos by brown people, along with a few racial slurs, but it’s not meaningful to the plot that they are brown people.) Most of the action takes place in Surrilana, a system of ginormous caverns under the Himalayas. There str no native homo sapiens in Surrilana. Intelligent bats, intelligent ants, scaly protohumans and primitive prehumans but no human beings. Crowing about the White Men being The Best comes off, to me, as really weird. It could be removed without changing the story at all. (Racism is bad. Period.)

I figured that, before I started illustrating the story, I could edit out all the racist bits.

I did some practice illustrations –

And then I thought I’d do a little rewriting – not much! – to make the plot work better.

And to eliminate the parts of the story that seem like filler.

And to make the flora and fauna of the caverns more fun to draw.

And to make the characters more interesting.

And …

Ultimately I recognized that I was less interested in adapting Morgo as I was interested in the setting – a series of caverns filled with a lost world of weird and wild creatures menaced by a madman with arcane powers. And, if I was going to toss out most of the original novel I might as well give it a new title and, what the heck, make it a graphic novels so I’d get to draw all the new cool stuff I was thinking of.

Ultimately ultimately, The Surrlana Depths will be its own thing. I’m keeping some of the names (not Morgo – he’s getting renamed) and the basic idea and doing a new spin on it. No racism. New creatures. Characters who are more than cannon fodder. A villain that makes sense to me.

It’s going to take awhile.

Yo!

Happy Birthday today to my darling Sarah! She’s been putting in a lot of work setting up a dedicated print on demand store for my art. And she’s writing. A lot. Go. Read.

Sick leave continues. My right arm and shoulder are in less pain than they were at the beginning of the year but I’m still not ready to go back to delivering mail. Getting doctors’ appointments scheduled has made getting treatment very, very slow. I finally got an MRI week before last but I wasn’t able to get an appointment to see an orthopedist for a diagnosis and treatment plan until this week. At this point I’m not expecting surgery to be necessary but … going back too soon could end up damaging me so that I will need surgery.

I am making progress on my projects. I’m mainly concentrating on Goblin Alpha Seven but, when I get stuck on it, I hop over and noodle on something else. There’s never not something I can do.

You can see that I haven’t listed any progress on the three projects at the bottom of the chart. Partly that’s because I want to finish the smaller projects first. That will be satisfying. It’s not as if I haven’t done anything on the big projects. I’ve done a lot of preliminary work – sketches, character designs, plotting and … stuff. Enough stuff that I can write about those projects now.

Let’s start with The Surrilana Depths, shall we?

To get to The Surrilana Depths I need to tell you about Morgo the Mighty. To do that I’m reposting the entry I wrote about it in 2012.

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Earlier this year (2012), I started seeing these cover images online. They started popping up on some of the blogs and tumblr accounts I follow. The paintings are beautiful. If there had only been one of them I probably would have noted the story that the painting illustrated and then quickly forgotten about it. Seeing three covers for Morgo the Mighty piqued my interest enough that I wanted to find out more about the story.

 I looked. There’s a mention of it in an essay about Hollow Earth stories. It’s discussed in a few paragraphs at the end of a long article about Tam, Son of the Tiger. Otherwise, there’s really nothing useful. No fansite. No wikipedia article. No author’s bio. No Gutenberg Project e-text.

There’s not much online about the author, “Sean O’Larkin.” I’ll return to him later.

The cover illustrations are by Howard V. Brown. Him you can find info about, and most of it includes examples of his lovely art.

Morgo the Mighty was serialized in four issues of The Popular Magazine. Interior illustrations were by Clarence Rowe.

I may not have been able to find much about the novel online but I was able to find someone selling a facsimile collection of it on ebay. I did find out enough about Morgo to think it takes place in a lost subterranean land populated with prehistoric monsters, so I knew it was a representative of a genre I have affection for. So I bought it.

The seller seems to have scanned and cleaned up the original printed pages from The Popular. Instead of just reading it and keeping it to myself I retyped the story and posted it, serial style, on my blog. The entire novel is 26 chapters. There aren’t, technically, any prehistoric monsters in the story. There plenty of other sorts of monsters so I didn’t mind. We’ve already got Pellucidar; a little variety in underground realms is appreciated. I  posted the story over a three month period.

I don’t know if this novel is in the public domain. Since it was published in 1930 it’s possible that it’s under copyright. The copyright lockdown that the Disney corporation engineered has prevented many works published after 1928 from entering the public domain. If J.F. Larkin is still alive somewhere or has heirs who have renewed the copyright, please let me know. I’d like to talk about what to do with this story.

Originally, I’d intended to donate the completed manuscript to the Gutenberg Project. Then, a gentlemen named Andy Beau helpfully compiled all the online chapters into a single file and sent me the file as both a Word doc and a PDF. I’m making those files available to you. Just click on the links below to download the version you prefer.

Morgo The Mighty – PDF
Morgo The Mighty – WORD

For those of you who would prefer a print version of the story, Adventure House Press has collected the novel in High Adventure #173.

“Sean O’Larkin” was a pseudonym for John F. Larkin Jr. I couldn’t find much biographical information on him but John Gunnison of Adventure House Press pointed me to his IMDB page. He was born November 30th, 1901 in New York, NY. He passed away in Los Angeles, CA on January 6th, 1965. After a short stint writing for the pulps and the theatre as Sean O’Larkin he seems to have moved to Hollywood and concentrated on writing films. He married a fellow writer, Eunice Chapin (1893-1978), and they had twin daughters, Morgan and Bourke. He mostly seems to have worked as a writer but he did direct a couple of films. He finished his career as a producer and writer in television.

Sean O’Larkin Bibliography

* The Arson Mob, (na) The Popular Magazine Jun #2 1930
* The Devil’s Widow, (sl) The Popular Magazine Aug #1, Aug #2, Sep
#1, Sep #2 1929
* Exit Laughing, (ss) Cosmopolitan Jan 1931
* Flaming Ice, (na) The Popular Magazine Dec #2 1930
* A Hollywood Murder Mystery, (ss) The Popular Magazine Mar 1931
* The Jade Blade, (na) The Popular Magazine Oct #2 1929
* Morgo the Mighty, (n.) The Popular Magazine Aug #2, Sep #1, Sep #2 1930
* Morgo the Mighty, (sl) The Popular Magazine Oct #1 1930
* On the Spot, (ss) The Popular Magazine Feb #2 1930

God Save the Queen!  a farce in 3 acts
Sean O’Larkin pseudonym of John F. Larkin Jr.
copyright Aug 21, 1930

John F. Larkin Filmography at the Internet Movie Database

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Still here? What does Morgo the Mighty have to do with The Surrilana Depths? If you’ve been reading my newsletters over the years you’ve read that I’m adapting Morgo as a graphic novel. I’m making enough changes that I’m giving it a new title. I’ll write more about the process in another newsletter.

How much progress have I made?

That is what this newsletter is supposed to track isn’t it?

First off, I finally copy edited my Morgo manuscript. The two versions linked above are the uncorrected original typings. The version below is a PDF of the novel sans typos, missing words, misspelling and other embarrassing things. Hopefully. It does still contain every word of the pointless racism of the original story. I thought I should warn y’all about that.
Morgo the Mighty – the corrected PDF

How is Morgo becoming Surrilana?

I will go into that next week.

In the meantime – take care of yourselves. Breathe. Touch grass. Touch sand. Have a sandwich. Do whatever you need to get by. If that whatever is illegal – ssssh!

Greetings and salutations! I hope your week went well!

My right arm is still healing. At least I hope it’s healing. It’s in no condition for me to go back to delivering mail. I’ve gotten an MRI but it will be another week before I can see a doctor to find out how to manage it. I did have an acupuncture session two weeks ago that seemed to make a difference so I’m trying to schedule another one this week. I’ve run out of muscle relaxants and will be out of one of my pain relievers shortly. I have a few weeks of sick leave and annual leave still available so I’m not worried. Yet.

I’m managing to get a little art done every day.

Right now I’m bopping between the Mighty Nizz Tarot Deck and Goblin Alpha Seven. Mighty Nizz seems like she has more commercial potential than Goblin. The elevator pitch for Nizz is simple enough – she’s a little girl raised by a Sasquatch in a magic forest. Goblin is … I’m not sure what Goblin is. I haven’t come up with a simple way to describe it yet.

Below is my scan of a page of the original thirty plus year old art.

Below this is the revised art with the new dialogue.

I do know what will happen in the story but most of it is unscripted and still needs to be sketched out.

Above is my progress chart. I’m going to keep it as simple as possible – just list what I will expect to be in the completed project and what’s actually finished. As you can see, I have a lot of work to do.

I hope your coming week is a good one! See you next Monday!

My right arm is still not up to delivering mail. Or much else. With pain relievers I’m able to do some drawing and some typing. But progress is slow.   

Jake Parker’s number one rule for making comics is FINISH YOUR COMIC. I have violated this rule as many (possibly more) times as I have followed it. One of my current goals is to finish some of those stories. 

Late last year I collected a stack of stuff that my brother in California had been storing in a closet for far too many years. Besides the original art for Misspent Youths, there were prints and portfolios by artists that younger me had admired, some sketchbooks from my high school years and about a dozen pages from a comic I’d started drawing in, I think, 1992.

I don’t remember a lot of details about the project. It was being written by someone that I collaborated with fairly frequently over the years. He didn’t finish scripting this one. Based on the dialogue in the existing pages the story seemed to be about some folks facing an impending apocalypse. I like the art. I love finding new uses for old work.

The writer and I are no longer in contact. With past unfinished projects we had agreed that I could do whatever I wanted with the art, including writing a new story using it. So …

“Goblin Alpha Seven” is the project’s working title. (When I first started scanning the old art my working title was “Revelationaries”. I didn’t like it but I needed something to call the files.) I renamed the characters, rearranged the pages and wrote a new script. Now I’m finishing the old pages and drawing new ones.

This is one of the original pages.

This is the page updated. I’m not saying the page is finished yet. I’m still working on the story and the script. I may make changes.

Last week I listed the projects I’m going to be tracking. I’m not sure how to break down progress on them. Some sort of spreadsheet would be the most detailed and accurate method but, at the moment, I don’t know how to format that into WordPress. One more thing to figure out on the fly.

Goblin Alpha Seven (comic) – 40 pages
John Bell’s Oz Book (illustrations)
Mighty Nizz: Getting Dressed (comic) – 18 pages
Mighty Nizz: Tarot Deck (tarot deck) – 78 cards
Skookworks Webstore – 248 designs
Observations (comic) – 8 pages
Sunk Cost Elegy (comic) – 120 pages
The Surrilana Depths (comic) – (200 pages)
Daughter of Spiders (illustrated short story series) – number of stories, word count and number of illustrations to be determined.

Have a great week! See you next Monday!

These Days …

The year winds down. The holiday season winds up. With it come many, many more parcels to deliver. In the rain and wind. Hopefully not in snow. My current route has lots of steep streets and driveways. Snow and ice would make attempting to deliver on them very dangerous. I’m hoping I won’t have to deal with that sort of weather.

I’ve now had days where I’ve had to deliver more than 200 parcels. I never had that many on my West Seattle route. One of the guys who had my current route in the past says he had days with more than 250 parcels.

Yay.

However many packages I have to deliver, I still consider myself lucky. I have great views of Puget Sound. There are lots of trees. I get waves and smiles from people walking their dogs. I live on my route so going home for lunch is easy. If all goes well, this is the route I’ll have until I retire.

This will be the last monthly newsletter. Next year, starting on the 1st, I’ll be posting weekly. I’ve got a lot of projects in the works and I think the best way for me to make progress on them will be to report how little progress I make each week. I’m only sort of kidding. By knowing I’m going to be publicly charting my progress I know I’ll spend less time getting distracted by interesting youtubes and substack rants.

I will have a list of the projects I’m tracking in the first newsletter of 2026.

Nine Panels – People to Avoid in Dark Alleys and Bright Thoroughfares

Where the Elves Come From
Story by Charlie Wise
Art by David Lee Ingersoll
Published in Last Dangerous Christmas in 1997

And that’s it for me for this year. I hope your holidays are warm and happy and filled with as much joy as you can absorb! And cookies!

See you on January 1st!

These Days …

We did something different last/this month. Sarah and I took our first vacation – just the two of us – ever. We have traveled numerous times in the thirty plus years that we’ve been together but those trips have always had some purpose other than just hanging out together – sick friends or relatives, weddings, memorials, conventions, business. My brother and his husband took us to Hawai’i. That was great but it was a group tour. From October 29th to November 5th it was just the two of us road tripping.

The original impetus for the trip was my brother’s birthday – one of those significant ones with a zero in it. I had scheduled my annual vacation back in January in order to visit him on October 31st. I have to schedule time off at the beginning of the year if I want more than a day. So I blocked out two weeks and didn’t think about it much for months.

Then Sarah needed to schedule flights and hotels and car rentals. And it seemed like fun to visit other folks as well.

So on October 29th we flew down to San Diego to visit Sarah’s oldest (longest known) friend. We rented a car and drove to his place. He’d forgotten we were coming but quickly adjusted. A wonderful time was had. Good food, great company.

On the 30th we drove from San Diego to Berkeley. 13 hours. We spent as much time as we could on Highway 101. Better views there than I5. Sarah talked. I drove and responded as much as I could while making sure nobody killed us.

On the 31st we hung out with my brother. Breakfast. Talk. Talk. I remembered that we had a car and he had been storing some of my art since my mother passed. That  stuff got transferred from his closet to our vehicle. We went for a walk in a park. Talk. Talk. Dinner. Sleep.

November 1st we had breakfast with my brother then drove up to Santa Rosa. After checking into our hotel we found a theatre and watched the new Frankenstein movie. We had sushi for dinner at a restaurant near our hotel.

On the 2nd we got some food at Costco and brought it to the Sebastopol Center for the Arts. We’d rented a room there and invited all available Sonoma County friends to join us. It seemed like a better idea than trying to get a bunch of folks together at restaurant or bar. We could be as noisy as we wanted and we had four hours to hang out. Hang out and be noisy we were. About a third of those I’d invited showed up but the smaller group made it easier to talk to everyone.

We drove up Highway 1 from predawn to after sunset on the 3rd. Lots of fog shrouding winding, winding roads. Beautiful forests. Wonderful views of a very active Pacific Ocean. A lot of road construction. Then rain and wind and Google telling us that Highway 101 was closed. It was not. We arrived at a very lovely hotel in Yachats after about fifteen hours on the road.

The hotel also had the most comfortable beds of any place we stayed. Sigh.

After we dragged ourselves out of bed we visited a former room mate from our Santa Rosa days. He made us the same breakfast he used to make back then – eggs, sausage and pancakes. Yumm.

Only four hours on the road up to Portland. We stayed at the McMenamin’s Kennedy Hotel – an old school building that had been converted into a hotel/restaurants/bars/theatre. It’s a very cool place. There we had dinner with a former writing apprentice of Sarah’s and his wife. It was our shortest visit, it being a Tuesday night and them having to work the next day.

Wednesday the 5th we drove home. While we were gone, a friend had stayed over and watched our cats. I rather expected the little monsters to be wary of us after having been gone so long but, no, they just shrugged and continued napping. Mostly. That they slept with us the whole night without walking me up to feed them might have been a clue that they missed us. Maybe.

We drove our friend to the airport on Thursday morning, the 6th, and then crashed. We did little but nap on the couch and watch mystery shows on streaming. It was our best vacation ever. And I still had Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday off from work. To do chores and art. Whew!

Mugshots Gallery – Part Two

Here are the other coffee mug (mostly) designs I did for my Redbubble and Zazzle stores back in 2022.

I am in the process of FINALLY setting up a store here at Skookworks. Both Redbubble and Zazzle are set up to sell schtuff in general rather than schtuff for specific artists. The store I’m working on features links directly to schtuff featuring my art. I’m starting with links to my Redbubble store and then, hopefully, I’ll set up a second store for the Zazzle schtuff. It’s going to take awhile. I have 248 designs on Redbubble and, as I set up the links I’m also adjusting how some of the designs are set up on products.

Anyway. Here’s the Store.

Bobby Deavers, Two Weeks Before

Pencils by Pia Guerra
Story and Art Finishes by David Lee Ingersoll
Published 1993 in Asylum #3

I scanned the pages for this story from a copy of the published comic. Some clean up of the files was required.

When I did this story “going postal” was a bit of black humor and mass shooting were rare things. I was also about twenty years away from working for USPS myself. I have never felt a desire to go on a shooting spree at either of the stations where I have worked.

Nine Panels – Oz Squad

My version of Steve Ahlquist‘s version of the Oz characters.

And th-th-that’s all folks! For now.

Stay chill. Be cool. We can make it!

See you again on December 15th.

These Days …

We’re going on a road trip at the end of the month. My brother is having one of those significant birthdays ending in a zero. We’ll be flying down to California and then driving back home. We’re hoping to visit with friends on the way back but we’re keeping things loose so we can enjoy ourselves and take it easy. A friend will be staying at our place to make sure the cats have someone to wake at midnight to feed them.

Both Sarah and I have big (and small) projects that we’ll be concentrating on in 2026. I will be writing/posting this newsletter weekly. It’s going to be a little personal news (and probably some character and concept sketches) but mainly a progress report on my various projects. Nothing forces me to focus on creative work like having to document it for other people.

Seasons Change 

Available Now!
Seasons Change – A modern day Hallowe’en scenario for Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition
By Jeffrey Moeller

Edited by Oscar Rios & Matthew Pook,
Art by David Lee Ingersoll,
Layout & Design by Mark Shireman,
Maps by Gregory Shipp

Seasons Change is a standalone, modern day scenario for Call of Cthulhu™ 7th Edition, designed to be played in two sessions.

Inktober/Drawloween Gallery

Every year in October artists around the world try to draw and post an illustration a day for Inktober/Drawloween. Inktober and Drawloween are both drawing challenges that post prompts to inspire drawings. I did these drawings in 2016. That was the first and only time, so far, that I’ve participated.

Jeremy Loader Never Could Pick Up After Himself
Pencils by Pia Guerra
Story and Art Finishes by David Lee Ingersoll
Published 1993 in Asylum #3

I scanned the pages for this story from a copy of the published comic. Some clean up of the files was required.

Nine Panels – Bigger Folks

I’ve read that Charles Schulz wanted his comic strip to be called L’il Folks but the syndicate titled it Peanuts. And he hated that title.

In Misspent Youths I included teenage versions of many comic strip kid characters. I only got in a couple from Peanuts. For these nine panels I’ve drawn nine of the main characters as they might have appeared in Misspent Youths. Can you guess them all?

And that’s it for this one. I hope y’all are well and taking care of yourselves. Keep it up!

See you November 15th!

These Days …

It’s the middle of September. It’s this time of year, autumn as it cruises into being winter, that I start contemplating what to do with this website (and this newsletter) in the next year. I think of each year as a project. This year I’ve written a monthly newsletter. In some previous years I’ve posted daily images. Other years I wrote a weekly newsletter. I don’t yet have an idea what I might do in 2026.

I don’t expect I’ll do new daily images here. I don’t expect to but I’ve often done things I didn’t expect. In 2025 I’ve been posting daily on substack, blue sky and tumblr. It’s been the same image on each platform. I’ve been wanting to see what sort of response on get on each site. The images have all been from the archives on my computer. I expect I will continue the daily posts on those sites in 2026. My audiences on each site is small but the images are being seen by more people on those sites than see them here. Subscribing to my substack will get the daily images sent to your email. Otherwise, checking the platforms will get my posts and the posts of other interesting people.

Substack

Blue Sky

Tumblr

I’m working on a variety of projects that I expect to post at some point – The Surrilana Depths graphic novel, the Daughter of Spiders stories, the Sunk Cost Elegy graphic novel. At the moment, none of those seem like they’re enough complete to start serializing, even if I were to limit myself to monthly posts.

I has occurred to me that I could finally set up this site as a portfolio/store. Have a gallery of images that, when clicked on, take you to either my Zazzle or my Redbubble store. That’s a thought. I could direct folks here from the other social media sites. Just let Skookworks chug along without regular posts for a year or so. That feels rude. I do think of y’all out there and I hope y’all enjoy these newsletters even when there’s not much news in them.

Atomic Age Maps Gallery

Most role playing scenarios feature maps so the players can better orient themselves in the stories. I’ve only drawn maps once, for the sourcebook: Atomic Age Cthulhu. I’d already contracted to do illustrations for the book so, when the editor asked if I could do maps as well, I basically shrugged and said, “Why not?”

Most of these were pretty straightforward. I followed instructions, did a little thinking and mostly drew the maps in Photoshop. The big challenge was the map for the Tri-Cities in 1955. The internet has a lot info available but no images of maps that old. So I went old school and visited the Seattle Central Library. There’s a map room on the top floor. I found a few maps that suited my purpose but, when it came time to check them out, I wasn’t sure how. This was years before our library started putting bar codes on everything and none of the maps had check out cards. I asked a librarian how to check them out. She smiled and said, “Bring them back when you’re done.”

Librarians are divine beings.

Yes, I returned the maps when I was done.

The Widower
Published in GLYPH #2, September 1998
Credited to “Sean Black”
But really:
Sarah Byam, writer
Justin Norman, penciller
David Lee Ingersoll, inker

Nine Panels: Misspent Youths

I get older. They never do. Punks.

I will see y’all again on October 15th.

Keep calm. Carry on. Hugs if you need them. Knuckle sandwiches if you’re a fascist.

These Days …

Hello again. Good to see you. Good to be seen.

I am constantly fighting an urge to write a philosophy of life. Or a book of advice. Or a manifesto. I resist the urge by reminding myself –
A) Drawing comics and illustrations is more fun.
B) It would be long and complicated and therefore take a long time to write (and rewrite and rewrite) so it makes sense.
C) What works for me, works for me. It’s really arrogant to assume it would work for anyone else.
D) Drawing comics and illustrations is way more fun.

So y’all are rescued once again.

But the multiverse is endlessly varied. In some realities I did write that weighty tome. In fewer realities it was published. In even fewer it was read by more than a few people. And … I’m guessing I changed the lives of fewer people in those realities than in the ones where I became a politician. Or a cult leader.

I’m not saying I improved anyone’s lives as a politician or a cult leader. Maybe in some realities.

In this reality?

In this reality there are already a LOT of people offering advice. On how to live. On how to get women to fall in love with you. On how to get men to be decent human beings. On how to write your screenplay/novel/memoir. On how to use Clip Studio more effectively. With social media it’s really easy to hand out advice. It’s really easy to get advice. I read a lot of Substack posts and watch a lot of YouTube videos. I figure it never hurts to learn something new.

Also in this reality: I’m still delivering mail. Sometimes I deliver things that do improve lives. I’m really appreciating the Burien station, my current station. One of my coworkers also carries routes at Westwood, my old station. He tells me that folks there are having to put in a lot of mandatory overtime. In Burien, getting mandoed hasn’t happened. I’ve been asked to carry extra three times. It was easy. So I feel pretty lucky. Hopefully I’m not jinxing that luck by talking about it.

A Mugshot Gallery – Part One

My big project for 2022 was to create an illustration a week to be put on mugs in my Zazzle and Redbubble stores. This is gallery features half of those illustrations.

Zazkwatch

This was the last Zazkwatch comic, published in the fourth issue of GLYPH.

Here’s your reminder that I’m posting older images from my computer archives daily on substack, blue sky and tumblr. It’s the same image on each platform so you can pick the one you prefer. If you want the images to come to your email then subscribing to my substack is the way to go.

Substack

Blue Sky

Tumblr

Nine Panels – Alien Folk

We have made it this far friends! We can go all the way!

All the way where?

That the question isn’t it. I grew up watching and reading stories of apocalypses, dystopias and disasters. It sometimes feels like all those tales were summoning spells for bad times. Bad times don’t need summoning. They arrive with little effort on our part.

It’s time to call up the Good. Not that Abundance shit that the Tech Bros are feeding us.

Make art. Tell stories. Make music. Make comics. Have a conversation with another human being in the same room.

Then do it again!

See you on September 15th!