Some Fridays arrive heavily. Today is one of those.

I’d already set up part of this newsletter, the parts with the art and my comments about it, earlier in the week so I’ll lead with that.

A Quiet Seaside Town

If you’re read H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Shadow Over Innsmouth” or have played enough Call of Cthulhu then you get the joke. Explaining it won’t make it funny.

The colors evolved quite a bit as I worked on this design. I originally went with representative colors but that didn’t come across as either funny or creepy enough.

I put a green layer over the image but that didn’t improve anything.

I finally decided that simpler was better and a monochrome in conjunction with the color of the text worked best.

This design is available on schtuff in my Redbubble store.

Process GIF

I like making GIFs. I like posting GIFs. If you thought I was done sharing sharing those sketches – sorry. I made GIFs for all of them. Here’s the first one. Another will be post each week until I run out.

These Days …

So.

Yeah.

A dear friend of mine will be gone soon. She’s been in hospice since April. Sarah used to talk to her every day. I talked to her as often as I could. I texted her every night. She hasn’t responded in a week. I’m not grieving yet but when she goes I know it’s going to hit. I can’t talk to her anymore. I’m told she’s mostly unconscious. Strong pain medications to handle strong pain. I’m writing down my memories of her and what she means to me. If I write something coherent, I will share it here. I know that many of y’all knew her.

Be good to those you love. We’re all just passing through.