Greetings, salutations, hello and how are you?

I hope your world is treating you well. I hope you are treating your world well.

This week’s process GIF is for one of the illustrations I did for my Ko-Fi account. I’m using it as part of the icons for the Pulp and Circuses and the All the Works membership levels. The hammer wielding woman is Briar Rose Taylor – protagonist of Daughter of Spiders. The big guy behind her is Morgo – one of the main characters of The Surrilana Depths.
The Surrilana Depths is my rewrite/revision/reimagining of Morgo the Mighty, a novel serialized in four parts in the Popular Magazine in 1930. I discovered the story back in 2012. It’s an adventure with a combined helping of two of my favorites settings – a Lost World and an Underground Realm. Surrilana is a Lost World in a giant series of caverns under the Himalayas. I found a facsimile reprint of the story, retyped it and serialized the original novel here at Skookworks. I had a collected version available for download but I took that offline when I started streamlining my website. The original posts (and a lot of related posts with various illustrations) are still up if you’d like to read them.

I will make a new PDF of the original novel available to my Pulp and Circuses Ko-Fi subscribers. The current version needs an embarrassing amount of copy editing. I want to fix that first. If you’d like to read a physical reprint of the novel now, there’s a good looking version available here.

I’ll be serializing The Surrilana Depths in 26 episodes, one every two weeks, starting in July. I’m currently planning to include 2 original illustrations with each episode. Surrilana will differ from Morgo. I’m keeping a lot of the florid prose. I’m sticking to the plot as much as possible. I’m changing … I’ll go into what I’m changing in future newsletters.

I’m working on Surrilana in the mornings before I go to deliver mail. I took a break today to say hello to y’all. Now I’m heading back underground.

See you in seven!