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Sketching is Done, Still So Busy

Yesterday evening I finally¹ finished the last of the numbered sketch editions for Random Access Memorabilia (book 13), and then promptly bemoaned the fact that I didn’t feel “done” with stuff because there are still so many things on my plate.

These include finishing a week of comics this week, laying out the covers for Broken Wind (book 14) and Delegates and Delegation (book 15)lettering the bonus story for Delegates and Delegation, and posting movie reviews for Oceans 8 and Solo².

The only other thing I’ve actually finished this week is the line art for the “Munchkin Starfinder³ Bookmark of Schlock Treatment”. I can’t share it here, though⁴. I think it’s a GenCon Indy exclusive.

It’s noon on Saturday, and I have a week of Schlock Mercenary scripts on my drawing table. Maybe I’ll get them all penciled and inked by the time my work-week ends at midnight, but even if I do, I’ll still be looking at that other stuff on my list and bemoaning its ongoing unfinishedness.


¹ The sketch editions took more time because we relaxed my schedule a bit, and this let me spend a bit more time on each sketch. They’re still just sketches, but I think they’re better than the ones I was doing for earlier books. Not that I expect anybody but me to notice.
² I loved
Oceans 8, and almost-as-much loved Solo. That’ll have to do for now.
³ I finally got my copy of
Munchkin Starfinder, and it looks amazing. As this post likely implies, I have not had time to play it yet. Also, until last night my game table was covered with to-be-sketched copies of Random Access Memorabilia.
⁴ Andrew wanted a picture of Schlock giving me first aid using duct tape and a stethoscope, but I came up with something more painful. And the art got approved, so yay!

Introducing KNAVES, For Which I’m Writing An Introduction

I’m writing, right now¹, an introduction for Knaves, an anthology of anti-heroic villainy, tales of comeuppance and come-hither, which is in its last 24 hours on Kickstarter.

As of this writing it’s a few hundred dollars short of funding², so if you want to read it (and having read a few of the manuscripts I believe you DO want to read it) you should go say so with some money.


¹Technically “right now” I’m writing a blog post, but the moment I finish I’m diving back into that introduction.
² (UPDATED: the project has funded, and I’ve finished writing the introduction. I didn’t wait for funding to finish working, but I don’t know which order those things happened in because I was too busy writing.)

June 6th: “Five Billion Years, Four Panels”

I posted the inks for the June 6th, 2018 Schlock Mercenary installment over at the Schlock Mercenary Patreon a few weeks ago.

Last week I posted the colors, sans dialog, as a work-in-progress treat for patrons.

One such patron (who in this case happens to also be a long-time friend) asked for a wallpaper. The image didn’t really lend itself to that, and about two minutes after I posted that it couldn’t really be done I figured out a nice way to do it.

Line-art by Howard Tayler, colors by Travis Walton. This is a crop of the June 6, 2018 installment of Schlock Mercenary, found a www.schlockmercenary.com

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Yet Another GDPR Post You’ll Probably Ignore

Your mailbox is probably full of messages talking about updates to privacy policies. Today, May 25th, is the deadline for websites to comply with GDPR legislation, and I think GDPR stands for Go Do Privacy Right or something like that.

Anyway, this is yet another announcement regarding an update to a privacy policy. In this case, it’s ours. You can read it here. Here’s the summary: we don’t sell information about you, but we do have information about you, especially if you’ve shopped with us. If you want us to delete your information from our systems, we’ll do that.

We do use cookies, and yes, our turnkey advertisers track those like crazy, but you can turn that off in your browser.

Full details can be found in our privacy policy.