There are three sorts of days each year when I feel like I’m actually doing something for America and my community as a mailman. One of those days is when I deliver mail-n ballots. The second of those days is when I pick up completed ballots.
The third day is the second Saturday in May. That is when we carriers pick up bags of non-perishable food left by our customers as part of Stamp Out Hunger: the National Mail Carriers Food Drive. That happened last Saturday. My customers left out enough donations to fill two parcel hampers. Not bad.
Sarah has been busy working on our websites and stores and a youtube channel. A glimpse of that can be found on her website. And cooking. And busily working to make community connections. Busy. Busy. Busy.
What did I get done? Here’s the spreadsheet –
| Project | Count | Complete |
| Outland Saints (comic) | 40 pages | 12 pages |
| John Bell’s Oz Book (illustrations) | 27 illustrations | 20 illustrations |
| Mighty Nizz: Getting Dressed (comic) – 18 pages | 18 pages | DONE! (Link posted once it’s online.) |
| Mighty Nizz: Tarot Deck (tarot deck) | 78 cards | 4 cards |
| Skookworks Webstore | 248 designs | new store in progress |
| Bastard Destiny (comic) | 48 pages | 13 pages |
| Sunk Cost Elegy (comic) | 120 pages (tentative) | |
| The Surrilana Depths (comic) | 200 pages (tentative) | |
| Daughter of Spiders (illustrated short story series) – number of stories, word count and number of illustrations to be determined. | ||
| Colonial Cthulhu (Keeper’s and Companions Manuals) | 2 covers | DONE! |
| Observations (comic) | 8 pages | DONE! Read it here. |
I’ve continued to post older illustrations to my substack, bluesky and tumblr accounts every day. New projects are in the works. Because of course.
One of the projects I keep noodling away at is The Surrilana Depths. Given its length it will probably be a long time before I’m able to start posting pages but I do have concept sketches I can share. Surrilana is a Lost World. Lost Worlds mean prehistoric creatures, weird creatures and/or both. I’m playing around with the idea of animals that have evolved from stock that secretly survived the asteroid’s impact 65 million years ago.
There have been a lot of weird animals on this planet since fish decided that the ocean was too cramped. And similar animals have evolved to fit similar niches at different times. It’s hard to invent an animal that’s too weird to exist.
Time for me to get back to the drawing board.
Have a great week! See you in seven!
