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Welcome to the last issue of the Tuesday Night Party Club. Thank you for joining me in 2020. I needed to practice writing so putting out this newsletter on a weekly basis has been a way to do that. Starting Friday, January 1st – in four days – I’ll be launching a new newsletter. I’m using the tinyletter.com service.

That newsletter will be called the Skook WIP. WIP for Work in Progress. Most of the images I presented here over the last year were of finished work I’d done in years past. The Skook WIP will focus on new and updated art. I’ll be showing illustrations at different stages, from rough sketches to finished images. I enjoy seeing other artists’ processes so hopefully you’ll enjoy seeing mine.

I will also be spotlighting a different artist each week with links to where you can see more of their work. Many of them will be folks whose work influenced me as I was growing up. Others will be folks who are inspiring me now.

And, of course, I’ll continue to comment and complain about my job at USPS. Complaining is what humans do. Am I glad to have a job during these days of sickness, economic uncertainty and political chaos? You bet! Am I frustrated by an economic and cultural framework that means most people are scraping by and feeling lucky that they aren’t in worse shape? Hell yes.

But that’s later. I’ve just survived another Christmas season. I’ve worked multiple 13 hour days and finished most of my shifts after the sun went down. From what I’ve read in the news and heard via shop talk, our station had less back up and higher staffing than a lot of others. So it could have been worse. Yay, not worse!

I have today off. This newsletter is a short one because I’m working on getting a headstart on the first issue of the Skook WIP. And I’ve got errands to run. And art to work on. And maybe take a nap. If you’ve already subscribed, THANK YOU! I plan continue to post links here but if you want to avoid the hassle of link following, well … use the form below.

Here’s to a better year in 2021! See you on the 1st!

Here we are. The end of the second decade of the 21st Century, the beginning of the Twenties.

I’ve made new image banners for the site. They load randomly. You might be able to see them all by refreshing the site a couple dozen times but that would be silly.

You could also just wait until next week. Beginning Tuesday and, hopefully, continuing weekly I’ll be posting a newsletter. Sort of. I wrote a monthly newsletter for a while back in 2013/2014 and sent that out via mailchimp. This newsletter will simply be a weekly blog post. If you’d like to receive it in your email please use the link on the right side of the page to subscribe.

I don’t have big plans for this site this year beyond the weekly posts.

If anything, I’m more interested in creating things in the physical world, making images that see print rather than publication as digital files. While I think computers and the internet are (or at least were) cool things, I’m a big fan of print. Print has weight. Print has permanence that digital publication never will. Yes, I know that all things are transitory, but a printed book could be read or. at least, picked up and examined after civilization collapses. Movies, television, computers and the internet all require power to access their art. Film requires a projector. Digital files require a means to translate them. A book just needs light by which to read it.

I hope y’all are doing well. Feel free to say “Hi!”.