It has often been pointed out to me that I have all the zeal for self-promotion of a lungfish peacefully buried under the cracked surface of a droughty pond. I hear that someone’s written something nice about my work, and instead of whirling into a well-oiled mechanical dervish of reposting, tweeting, fbooking, tumbling, googleplexing, and God only knows what else you damned hyperevolved internet big brains do, I sink back down into my mudhole and placidly wait for the monsoon.
I have a nasty headache and can’t see out of one eye, so I’m Googling myself. On blackout day. Because I can’t read anyway. Or draw. So here’s what cleverer people have to say:
BestDamnCreativeWriting
TCJ
Fiction State Of Mind
sciencefiction.com
readaboutcomics
Good Reads (I never get comments. THIS HAS COMMENTS, good lawdycrosis)
Fantastic Fangirls
Comics Worth Reading
good words on Amazon
Bleeding Cool, which is what it says on the tin
Top Ten list #1
Publisher’s Weekly
Comics Alliance
There.
Only this and this so far, but there will be more. More paper. More, more more paper.
These are examples of the sketch cards I’ve been including in the Dark Horse FINDER Libraries I have for sale. Trying too hard, probably, but they give me a chance to play with color media. They’re 4″x6″, marker and colored inks on Bristol. I try to include one per book, but if I get rushed for time, I may cut it back to one per order.
This is an illusion done with light on the side of a building– nothing new, just the drive-in theater screen of yesterday– but the illusion is brilliant, and makes the idea fresh again. Imagine a city full of this (watch me flee screaming to live in a hole on the beach like a geoduck forever after), and the people who live there.
New art up in the shop, including some with boobies, in a Malibu Barbie kind of way. Scary, scary girl.
I am making sour-cream sugar cookies for Halloween, and of course they’re all for family and friends, because otherwise I might be accused of attempting to poison the neighborhood. Man, I remember the Fudge Lady in our neighborhood– she handed out homemade fudge wrapped in saran wrap. It beat the holy hell out of Necco wafers. Anyway, I have cookie cutters in the shapes of skulls and butterflies, and I am making a flying skeleton out of Sculpey. Because I am a big big big nerd for Halloween.
Click on that thing on the right that says BOOKS and you will see that on my Shopify site I am selling the Dark Horse collections for a little while. I don’t have very many. I will sign ‘em and do a little sketch card for each, and if it’s a prezzie and you want it to look like it came from Jaeger, I’ll wrap it up ‘dragged this around the bush in a gunnysack’ gift style.
Here’s my shop with new pages from DARK HORSE PRESENTS. Unsold pages from DHP #1 are now back in their beds. The remaining two pages from DHP #2 will still be up until sometime-ish tomorrow. Somebody buy these fancy vistas with the crappy perspective, I’m killing myself on ‘em.
Added two more pages of original art from FINDER: 3RD WORLD, currently serializing in DARK HORSE PRESENTS, to the Etsy store.
Here’s how it goes: I don’t want a massive pile of pages up at any one time. Any given page will have two weeks to sell. As pages sell or are pulled after their two-week tour, they will be replaced. The total number of pages for sale will never be greater than ten.
So if a train leaves El Paso heading north, and a car leaves Denver heading east, who gets spaghetti first? And who killed Mrs White with the cheese grater in the oubliette? And does anybody want the rough pencilled pages, and would they pay more for a finished page if it was accompanied by its corresponding pencilled page?
Test on Monday.
