Patch Zircher

We do all the bullshit.
And will continue to do all the bullshit.

I persist in the belief that all of life can be understood and processed via Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies.

(Also various other things, but you get the drift.)

Every now and then :)

My marriage is like the bulldog and the kitty cartoon. Sometimes one of us is the bulldog, taking pains so that the other is comfortable, and sometimes one of us is the kitty.

In Indiana I drew with fingerless Dickensian gloves on because the house was so cold.

We have a glass, a regular recycle, and a 'special plastics' receptacle and I catch hell if I don't employ them correctly.
Meanwhile Laura keeps the house 8 to 10 degrees below recommended levels.

:)

Ironic that, for a guy called Patch, the elbows of a lot of my 'drawing shirts'* are blown out.

* drawing shirt: really comfortable shirt I wear while working because my wife keeps the AC at "arctic".

;)

Interesting. Thank you.

That's how I remember discovering Bradbury too.
Being a Midwestern kid made it even better.
Bradbury wrote about California, Mexico, Ireland, Mars :), etc but he most often returned to the Midwest.

I'm reading (with some stories re-reading) the Sherlock Holmes adventures in their (published) chronological order. Or very close to it.
So far:
A Study in Scarlet
A Sign of Four
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Next:
Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

If you like the Addams Family and wonder what crafted, tender stories about that kind of world might be like, try Ray Bradbury's Elliott Family stories. Collected under one cover in From the Dust Returned.
It's 'Something Wicked This Way Comes' Bradbury; midwest mansions & autumnal fantasy.
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-- from a farmer who becomes the grim reaper (this feels like it MUST have influenced Stephen King), to a boy raised by vampires, to a writer who stops his career (at gunpoint) but comes to cherish the freedom of no longer writing.

It's all great.

Latest read (print & audio), The Scythe, Uncle Einar, There Was an Old Woman, The Cistern, Homecoming, and The Wonderful Death of Dudley Stone (1943-54); concluding The October Country by Ray Bradbury (my second reading); a phenomenal collection of stories--
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Miss Marple and Poirot are here though the stories without them are just as good.
I believe it was in the intro to this book that Christie's prose is compared to biting a crisp, fresh apple.
Terrific reading by Fenella Woolgar.

Latest read (audio), S.O.S., Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb, The Fourth Man, Idol House of Astarte, & The Gipsy, by Agatha Christie, from Last Seance; this is a wonderful collection of Christie stories, all with a connection to the supernatural.
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An unusual one to be sure. He does not really catch the bad guy, only reveals their fate.

Thank you!!

Just finished Savage Sword of Conan #9 — @patrickzircher.bsky.social ’s tale is pure sword & sorcery mayhem. Brutal fights, creeping magic, and monstrous horrors, all brought to life with razor-sharp writing and savage, gorgeous art. Crom would absolutely approve.
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Latest read (audio), Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb, Adv of Noble Bachelor, ... Beryl Coronet, and ... Copper Beeches, concluding Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892) by Arthur Conan Doyle.
Holmes' mannerisms & eccentricities made uniqueness in fictional detectives THE model approach.
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It's validation at a certain stage in your career.
Then, after awhile, it begins to feel like invalidation.

God, I do this.

And I'm telling you it's because I think, "What would it be like to draw this person?" every time I look at someone.

By the way, Paul Chadwick painted that Lycanthia cover. Paul is also known for the comic Concrete.

👍

breadth not breath

deadth to autocorrect

The first thing I'd read is The King of Elfland's Daughter. Then this.
I love both but his Pegana (included here) can feel Silmarillion-like to readers not used to his fantasy.

Latest read (print & audio), In The Land of Time and Other Fantasy Tales (1905-1952) by Lord Dunsany; Known for lush, feverish, otherworldly tales, Dunsany actually has a breath of style. His later work, while more earthly, is charming.
Both are present here.
Essential for fantasy writers.
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Agree.

Feel the same. House is important but I love Erdich's Antelope Woman. The Pulitzer is often message-oriented as opposed to being absolutely about craft and House appeared at an intense time for indigenous rights.
However, it was a good selection for the effect it had.