Welcome 2014
Daughter of Spiders has concluded. The best way to read the series, in order, is to use the links on the Daughter of Spiders pages.
Things are going to be quiet here for a little bit. I have some back end clean up and edits of old posts and some site redesign to do. There will be a new newsletter on the 15th.
Cheers, y’all!
Welcome 2013!
The New Year begins tomorrow. I find myself in the lucky position of being a full time illustrator. I’m working on a graphic novel. I’ve got commissions for covers and illustrations with role playing game publishers to provide variety and fill in the holes in my schedule.
2013 should be a busy one. Besides the new work I’m in the process of creating, we should also see the publication of some books that have been in the hopper for a while.
Atomic Age Cthulhu, a Call of Cthulhu scenario book with 1950s setting is coming from Chaosium. It features illustrations by me in the interiors.
Atomic Age Cthulhu: Terrifying Tales of the Mythos Menace is a fiction anthology companion to the RPG book and should see print at the same time. I did the cover illustration.
Lost in the Lights, a modern day Mythos scenario set in Las Vegas, is due in the spring from Sixtystone Press. I did the cover and all the interior illustrations for it.
Also from Sixtystone is Ghouls, a sourcebook on … well … ghouls, for the Call of Cthulhu game. I did the cover and interior illustrations for that as well.
Tomorrow, New Years Day, I’ll begin posting Daughter of Spiders: Excerpts and Images from the Journals of Briar Rose Taylor. There will be an entry a day, 365 in all. It is both a work in progress and, hopefully, a work in itself.
I welcome comments and questions. May your year be a good one!
Onward to 2013!
Merry Merry!
She Slays Dragons
Nizzibet slays dragons. She’d rather not. She’d rather bake bread and garden and have tea with friends. But dragons keep tearing up the landscape and making life miserable for everybody who isn’t a dragon. So she picks up her sword and goes to work. That’s the kind of lady she is.
Do It Anyway
Happy Birthday Mister Mike!
Also celebrating 18 years around the son, my nephew on Nizzibet’s side of the family. Happy Birthday Old Man!
Eighteen and Counting
Nizzibet and I have been together now for 18 years. During that time we’ve each been, at least, half a dozen different people. We’ve grown. We’ve changed. We’ve given each other the silent treatment. We’ve said too much. We’ve danced. We’ve made art. We’ve made family and expanded it. We’ve been each other’s cheerleaders. We have made a home in each other where the doors are always open and a warm fire is always burning.
Happy Anniversary to my favorite Mouse.
See You on the Other Side
Trisha Smith Creekmore passed away on October 18th, 2012 at 8:25 am.
I’m thankful that she and her husband, David, were so open and sharing about their lives and her illness. I know from my own experience that, during troubled times, it’s important to let people know about the trouble. We’re social animals. We need company in both good times and bad times. In the 21st century, some of that company comes via the internet. It doesn’t replace spending time in person but it can add to it.
Through their posts and more direct Facebook exchanges I got to know a person who could have remained just an old memory. I got to know a living, amazing person. That was priceless.
Above videos by David Creekmoore.
Battlefield Negotiations
I posted this cartoon for Trish on Facebook with the caption: Heaven Can Wait. Unlike Trish, I don’t have cool taste in music but apparently the caption was appropriate. Iron Maiden, a band that she liked, had a song by the same title.
